Emerging Leaders

I am currently the Head of the Nephrology Department and Kidney Transplant Programme of University Teknologi MARA (UiTM). My passion is in medical education where I am involved in many of the undergraduate and national postgraduate activities. I also have a keen interest in transplant and am involved with various activities to help promote this.

I graduated in Medicine in 2005, received a degree in Nephrology in 2011 and a PhD in 2016. I am currently a post-doc student in Epidemiology at Sao Paulo University and work as a nephrologist at Pro-Rim Foundation and as a professor at Univille School of Medicine in Joinville-Brazil.

I graduated from Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS) in medicine. I completed a master of Medicine from MUCHS and a nephrology fellowship and research training from Yale University (USA). I am currently a PhD student of NCD epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I am a senior lecturer at MUCHS and the founding president of the Uganda Kidney Foundation.

I am a clinician researcher at Queensland Children’s Hospital, Australia.  My research interest is exploring long term outcomes for children and adolescents with CKD. In 2017, I received a Churchill Fellowship, travelling to Germany, England and the USA to explore transition programs to adult care. In 2019, I was appointed as an Editorial Fellow to Kidney International.

I am a Senior Lecturer/Consultant Nephrologist with the University of Uyo, Nigeria and its teaching hospital. I am an IAMP-Young Physician Leader for Nigeria, epidemiologist and ISN-GKHA fellow. I pioneered renal replacement therapy for end-stage kidney disease patients in a 6.4 million population state in Nigeria’s Niger-Delta.

I am a transplant nephrologist at Westmead Hospital and a clinician scientist at the University of Sydney. I am the recipient of the ISN Young Nephrologist Basic Science Award 2019 and ANZSN Basic Science Award 2018.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Division of Nephrology at McMaster Children’s Hospital, Canada. In addition to clinical and teaching responsibilities, I perform clinical research to address key knowledge gaps in common pediatric kidney diseases and I have received local, provincial and national grants to support my work.

I am a Specialist Nephrologist and a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. I am a member of ISN South Asia Regional Board and Educational Ambassadors Program Committee. I am the current editor of the Sri Lanka Society of Nephrology and the coordinator of the post-graduate training program in nephrology in Sri Lanka. My research interests include epidemiology of CKD and AKI in snakebites.

I am a Senior Lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and a Consultant Nephrologist at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. I am also the Secretary for the Young Nephrologists Committee of the African Association of Nephrology and a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity at the George Washington University. As well as a Researcher, Author and Kidney Health Advocate, I am also the Director of Kidney Health International (an NGO based in Ghana).

I am the CEO, Director and Co-Founder of Africa Healthcare Network (AHN), the largest and most expansive provider of renal care in East Africa. I am a Candidate for an MBA at Harvard Business School and graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Economics and Finance.

I am originally from Lebanon and I studied medicine at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. I came to the United States to continue my higher education and I was fortunate to train in Internal Medicine and then in Nephrology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. After my graduation in 2015, I focused my efforts on the field of education and I successfully obtained a Master’s in Education. I am involved in several multi-department educational initiatives and I am currently working on building a virtual-reality 3D nephrology course.

I am currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nephrology at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh in India.

I am the Head of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Saint George Hospital University Medical Center in Beirut, Lebanon. I am also a Member of the Young Nephrologist Committee of the ISN.

I am a nephrologist and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at University of British Columbia. In collaboration with BC Renal, my current research focuses on nutritional status assessment among patients with kidney disease and outcomes associated with oral nutritional supplementation.