Leadership

Co-Chairs

Andrew Terker
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Incoming Co-Chairs

Justin Van Beusecum Medical University of South Carolina

Ryan Cornelius
Oregon Health & Science University

Malgorzata Kasztan The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Core Committee

Paramita Pati
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Samia Lasaad Icahn School of Medicine

Corry Bondi University of Pittsburgh

Jelina Basnet
University of Mississippi Medical Center

Lama Al-Qusairi
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Brian Czaya University of California,

Frank Kiyimba Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Josh Rein
Icahn School of Medicine

Jonathan Nelson
University of Southern California

Vidhi Dalal Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Thomas Kowal

Kevin Shih University of California San Francisco

Ruslan Bohovyk University of South Florida

Olha Kravtsova University of South Florida

Dianet Sanchez Vega University of Louisville

Theresa Weis University of Louisville

Samaneh Di Martino Stony Brook University

Justin Van Beusecum Medical University of South Carolina

Asma Tchakal-Mesbahi Harvard University

Jess Hebert Oregon Health and Science University

Ester Oh University of Colorado

Founders

Robert Fenton
Aarhus University

Paul Welling
University of Maryland

These senior faculty members spent several years conceptualizing and advocating for a Kidney Week Pre-Meeting for young investigators. They chaired the first meetings and we thank them for making this forum possible.