KHI Board of Directors and Federal Liaisons
Disclosures as of September 2021 can be found here.
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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...
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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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Jorge Cerda, MD, MS, FASN
Professor Jorge Cerda, MD, MS, FACP, FASN Prof. Cerda was born and raised in Uruguay, and currently resides...
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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, MSc, FASN
Ogo Egbuna works at Vertex leading the company's precision medicine kidney programs in APOL1-mediated and P...
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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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Jennifer E. Flythe, MD, FASN, MPH
Dr. Flythe is a nephrologist and clinical investigator at the ...
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Kevin John Fowler
Kevin Fowler has over 30 years of Life Sciences experience in pharmaceutical organizations both commercia...
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Amanda Grandinetti, MPH
Amanda Grandinetti, MPH is a research methodologist, a current Ph.D. candidate in health sciences for patie...
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Nicolas Jose Guzman, MD
Nicolas J. Guzman, M.D. has been the Director of Nephrology Clinical Research at AstraZeneca since 2014. He...
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Meg Jardine, MBBS, PhD
Professor Meg Jardine is the Director of the CTC and Lead of Kidney Health Research. Her research has focus...
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Annamaria T. Kausz, MD, MS
Kausz, MD, MS is a nephrologist and pediatric nephrologist with an extensive background in evidence-based r...
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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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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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Ikenna Okezie, MD, MBA
Ikenna Okezie, MD, MBA is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Somatus, the market leader in val...
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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
Prior to joining the UW Center for Dialysis Innovation and Kidney Research Institute as the Director of Ext...
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Bruce M. Robinson, MD, MS, FASN
Bruce Robinson, MD, MS, FASN, has been Vice President of Clini...
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Alain Romero, PharmD, PhD
Alain is currently Senior Vice President of L-GBT Medical Affairs at Pfizer. He has over 30 years of experi...
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Brigitte Schiller, MD, FASN
Dr. Schiller is the SVP, Medical Officer Home Therapies at Fresenius Medical Care. From 2012-2022 she serve...
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Amit Sharma, MD, FASN
Dr. Sharma serves as the Vice President of Clinical Development as Therapeutic Head for Nephrology and Hema...
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Robert A. Star, MD
As director of the Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases, Dr. Star is responsible for mana...
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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 Thompson is Deputy Director of the Division of Cardiology and Nephrology, Center for Drug Evaluation ...
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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...
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Linda F. Fried, MD, MPH, FASN
Linda Fried, MD, MPH, FASN, is Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Clinical & Translational Science at...
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