Uptal D. Patel, MD, Chair

Uptal Patel is Chief Medical Officer at HI-Bio. Prior to HI-Bio, he was the Head of Clinical Renal and Exec...

Kristen Miller, PharmD

Kristen Miller is a Health Scientist Policy Analyst in the Office of Medical Policy (OMP) in the Center fo...

Shuchi Anand, MD, MS

Shuchi Anand M.D. M.S. is Director of the Center for Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease at Stanford Universi...

Mary Baliker

Steven K. Burke, MD

Steven Burke, MD, is the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Research & Development and Chief Medical Officer (C...

Jorge Cerda, MD, MS, FASN

Professor Jorge Cerda, MD, MS, FACP, FASN Prof. Cerda was born and raised in Uruguay, and currently resides...

Bruce F. Culleton, MD

Manisha Dadhania, MBA

Manisha Dadhania brings over 18 years of experience in the medical device sector where she has primarily le...

Ogo I. Egbuna, MD, MSc, FASN

Ogo Egbuna works at Vertex leading the company's precision medicine kidney programs in APOL1-mediated and P...

Jay Elliott, PhD

I am committed to supporting development of novel solutions to enhance the lives of people living with kidn...

Vanessa A. Evans, MA

Vanessa Evans has been on dialysis for over 26 years and lives in Boston, MA with her husband and two sons....

Kevin John Fowler

Kevin Fowler has over 30 years of Life Sciences experience in pharmaceutical organizations both commercia...

Amanda Grandinetti, MPH

Amanda Grandinetti, MPH is a research methodologist, a current Ph.D. candidate in health sciences for patie...

Nicolas Jose Guzman, MD

Nicolas J. Guzman, M.D. has been the Director of Nephrology Clinical Research at AstraZeneca since 2014. He...

Meg Jardine, MBBS, PhD

Professor Meg Jardine is the Director of the CTC and Lead of Kidney Health Research. Her research has focus...

Lauren L. Lee, MA

Lauren Lee has spent the last 12 years working in the patient advocacy arena, specifically in rare kidney d...

John Mcdermott, MBA

John McDermott is an executive with extensive experience in the life sciences and medical device industries...

Vandana Dua Niyyar, MD, FASN

Vandana Dua Niyyar is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and has received the Clinical Dis...

Ikenna Okezie, MD, MBA

Ikenna Okezie, MD, MBA is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Somatus, the market leader in val...

Robert M. Perkins, MD, MPH

In my current role as Vice President of the US Cardiorenal team at Bayer, I lead a team of medical director...

Glenda V. Roberts

Glenda Roberts is the inaugural Director of Communications and Patient Engagement for the Mount Sinai Cente...

Bruce M. Robinson, MD, MS, FASN

Bruce Robinson, MD, MS, FASN, is Professor in Internal Medicin...

Alain Romero, PharmD, PhD

Alain is a former Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs at Pfizer with over 30 years of experience in cl...

Brigitte Schiller, MD, FASN

Dr. Schiller is the SVP, Medical Officer Home Therapies at Fresenius Medical Care. From 2012-2022 she serve...

David Soergel, MD

Michael Spigler

Mike Spigler has served as vice president of Patient Support and Education for the American Kidney Fund (AK...

Howard Trachtman, MD, FASN

I attended Haverford College and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. I completed my residency t...

Amy Young

Amy is the Vice President and General Manager of DaVita Clinical Research. Amy Young has been a vital p...

Kellie Kelm, PhD

Aliza M. Thompson, MD, MS

Aliza Thompson is Director of the Division of Cardiology and Nephrology, Center for Drug Evaluation and Res...

Celia Witten, MD, PhD

Celia M. Witten, Ph.D., M. D. is the Director of the Office of Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapy at the Cen...

Linda F. Fried, MD, MPH, FASN

Linda Fried, MD, MPH, FASN, is Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Clinical & Translational Science at...

Curtis Warfield, MS

Curtis Warfield is a systems analyst from Indianapolis, IN. In 2012, Curtis was diagnosed with stage 3 chro...