Bruce Robinson, MD, MS, FASN, has been Vice President of Clinical Research at Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA since 2007. Dr. Robinson obtained his medical degree at the University of Michigan, and post-graduate training in nephrology and an MS in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Robinson has been Scientific Director of the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) Program since 2009. The DOPPS Program includes three large cohort studies with goal to identify optimal practices for patients with advanced CKD or kidney failure. The program is active at over 750 clinical sites in twenty countries, and it has a wide network of scientific collaborators with more than 300 scientific publications. Dr. Robinson is Co-Principal Investigator of the Data Coordinating Center for the Cure Glomerulonephopathy Research Network (CureGN), an NIH/NIDDK-funded multi-center cohort study of patients with glomerular disease (ongoing, since 2013), and he was Co-Deputy Director of the United States Renal Data System (USRDS [NIH/NIDDK]) Coordinating Center from 2014-2019. He has research expertise in the epidemiology of kidney disease and quantitative analysis for studies of patients with advanced CKD and kidney failure.