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...

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...

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....

Jennifer E. Flythe, MD, MPH, FASN

Dr. Flythe is a nephrologist and clinical investigator at the ...

Kevin John Fowler

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

Barbara S. Gillespie, MD, FASN

Barbara S. Gillespie, MD, MMS, FASN, is a board-certified adult nephrologist who completed her residency in...

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...

Annamaria T. Kausz, MD, MS

Kausz, MD, MS is a nephrologist and pediatric nephrologist with an extensive background in evidence-based r...

Jeffrey Lawson, MD, PhD

Jeffrey H. Lawson, M.D., Ph.D. is Humacyte’s President and Chief Executive Officer. He is a physician-scien...

Vandana Dua Niyyar, MD, FASN

Vandana Dua Niyyar is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and has been designated Eminent P...

Thomas D. Nolin, PharmD, PhD, FASN

Dr. Tom Nolin is Associate Dean for Research and Sponsored Pro...

Ikenna Okezie, MD, MBA

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

Meda E. Pavkov, MD, PhD

Dr. Pavkov is a physician scientist whose research centers on complications of diabetes. She has a doctorat...

Glenda V. Roberts

Prior to joining the UW Center for Dialysis Innovation and Kidney Research Institute as the Director of Ext...

Bruce M. Robinson, MD, MS, FASN

Bruce Robinson, MD, MS, FASN, has been Vice President of Clini...

Alain Romero, PharmD, PhD

Alain is currently Senior Vice President of L-GBT Medical Affairs at Pfizer. He has over 30 years of experi...

Brigitte Schiller, MD, FASN

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

Amit Sharma, MD, FASN

Dr Sharma serves currently as the Vice President of Medical Affairs, Cardiovascular and Renal Division for ...

Robert A. Star, MD

As director of the Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases, Dr. Star is responsible for mana...

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...

James P. Smith, MD, MS

James P. Smith, MD, MS, is a nephrologist and medical officer in the Division of Metabolism and Endocrinolo...

Aliza M. Thompson, MD, MS

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

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, FASN, MPH

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