KHI Board of Directors and Federal Liaisons

Disclosures as of September 2021 can be found here.

Kristen Miller, PharmD

Kristen Miller, PharmD

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

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Shuchi Anand, MD, MS

Shuchi Anand, MD, MS

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

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Steven K. Burke, MD

Steven K. Burke, MD

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

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Bruce F. Culleton, MD

Bruce F. Culleton, MD

Dr Culleton is Chief Executive Officer of ProKidney, a clinical-stage biotechnology company with a transfor...

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Manisha Dadhania, MBA

Manisha Dadhania, MBA

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

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Ogo I. Egbuna, MD, MS, MSc, FASN

Ogo I. Egbuna, MD, MS, MSc, FASN

Ogo Egbuna works at Vertex leading the company's precision med...

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Jay Elliott, PhD

Jay Elliott, PhD

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

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Vanessa A. Evans, MA

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....

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Amanda Grandinetti, MPH

Amanda Grandinetti, MPH

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

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Lauren L. Lee, MA

Lauren L. Lee, MA

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

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John Mcdermott, MBA

John Mcdermott, MBA

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

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Vandana Dua Niyyar, MD, FASN

Vandana Dua Niyyar, MD, FASN

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

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Robert M. Perkins, MD, MPH

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...

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Glenda V. Roberts

Glenda V. Roberts

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

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Bruce M. Robinson, MD, MS, FASN

Bruce M. Robinson, MD, MS, FASN

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

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Alain Romero, PharmD, PhD

Alain Romero, PharmD, PhD

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

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Michael Spigler

Michael Spigler

Mike Spigler has served as vice president of Strategic Partnerships, Research and Education for the America...

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Howard Trachtman, MD, FASN

Howard Trachtman, MD, FASN

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

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Aliza M. Thompson, MD, MS

Aliza M. Thompson, MD, MS

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

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Curtis Warfield, MS

Curtis Warfield, MS

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

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