Shuchi Anand M.D. M.S. is Director of the Center for Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease at Stanford University (http://stan.md/tikidney). She received her Medical Degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and completed her internal medicine training at Brigham and Women's Hospital (Partners Healthcare, Harvard Medical School) in Boston. She completed her Masters in Clinical Epidemiology and nephrology fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Anand is engaged in clinical research aimed at advancing the care of patients with kidney disease living in low-resource settings using practical tools. She has active projects in collaboration with University of Utah promote exercise programming for underserved populations, with Center for Chronic Disease Control in India to study risk factors for kidney disease in South Asians, and with Kandy Hospital Sri Lanka to investigate chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology affecting agricultural communities. During the COVID19 pandemic Dr Anand also participated in partnership to elucidate sero-epidemiology, vaccine acceptance and response to vaccination among patients on dialysis. She is part of two NIH consortia focused on improving the health of underserved populations.