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OUR TEAM

MEET OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM

ISGD is led by an international collective of experts in glomerular disease science and clinical care. In keeping with our ethos of cross-stakeholder collaboration, our steering committee includes not only practicing physicians and researchers, but also representation from allied professional societies, patient organizations, and industry.

Practice areas and specializations on the team include nephrology, pediatric nephrology, renal pathology, immunology, and genetics, as well as clinical, translational, and basic research.

  • Steering Committee
  • Staff
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Dr. Sharon Adler Treasurer
Investigator, The Lundquist Institute
 
Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
 
Chief, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension; Program Director, Nephrology Fellowship, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Dr. Sharon Adler Treasurer
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Dr. Laura Barisoni Co-Chair, Clinical Trials Committee

Chief of Renal Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine

Dr. Laura Barisoni Co-Chair, Clinical Trials Committee
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Dr. Annette Bruchfeld Chair, Clinical Trials Committee

Professor of Renal Medicine, Linköping University

Consultant, Linköping University Hospital

Visiting Professor of Inflammatory Kidney Diseases, Karolinska Institutet

Dr. Annette Bruchfeld Chair, Clinical Trials Committee
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Dr. Kirk Campbell Chair, Membership & Accreditation Committee

Irene and Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Mount Sinai Department of Medicine 

President, NKF National Board of Directors 

Dr. Kirk Campbell Chair, Membership & Accreditation Committee
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Dr. Alessia Fornoni Chair, Peer Support Committee

Chief of Nephrology & Hypertension, University of Miami

Dr. Alessia Fornoni Chair, Peer Support Committee
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Dr. Rasheed Gbadegesin Co-Chair, Basic & Translational Research Committee

Wilburt C. Davison Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Nephrology, Duke University School of Medicine

Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist Development, Duke University School of Medicine

Dr. Rasheed Gbadegesin Co-Chair, Basic & Translational Research Committee
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Dr. Hiddo Lambers Heerspink Co-Chair, Clinical Trials Committee

Professor of Clinical Trials and Personalized Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen

Co-Director, Better Treatments Program, George Institute for Global Health

Dr. Hiddo Lambers Heerspink Co-Chair, Clinical Trials Committee
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Dr. Jula Inrig Industry RepresentativeChief Medical Officer, Travere Therapeutics
Dr. Jula Inrig Industry Representative
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Dr. Koyal Jain Co-Chair, Education Committee

Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, Nephrology and Hypertension Training Program; and Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, Department of Medicine, Duke University

 
Dr. Koyal Jain Co-Chair, Education Committee
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Dr. Kenar D. Jhaveri Chair, Education CommitteeProfessor of Medicine and Associate Chief, Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension, Northwell Health/Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Dr. Kenar D. Jhaveri Chair, Education Committee
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Dr. Matthias Kretzler Chair, Clinical Trials CommitteeWarner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Internal Medicine/Nephrology and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
Dr. Matthias Kretzler Chair, Clinical Trials Committee
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Dr. Rachel Lennon Co-Chair, Basic & Translational Research Committee

Professor of Nephrology, Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist,  and Director of the Wellcome Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester

Dr. Rachel Lennon Co-Chair, Basic & Translational Research Committee
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Prof. Dr. Elena Levtchenko Co-Chair, Membership & Accreditation Committee
Emma Children’s Hospital
University Medical Centre Amsterdam
Prof. Dr. Elena Levtchenko Co-Chair, Membership & Accreditation Committee
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Prof. Liz Lightstone Co-Chair, Peer Support Committee

Professor of Renal Medicine, Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Department of Immunology and Inflammation; Consul (Clinical) Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London

Honorary Consultant Renal Physician, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Renal and Transplant Centre

Prof. Liz Lightstone Co-Chair, Peer Support Committee
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Dr. Jun Oh Co-Chair, Education Committee

Director, Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Pediatric Transplantation, Medical Center of the University of Hamburg/Eppendorf

Director, KfH Kidney Center for Children and Adolescents, Hamburg 

Dr. Jun Oh Co-Chair, Education Committee
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Dr. Heather Reich Chair, Membership & Accreditation Committee

Associate Professor of Medicine; Departmental Division Director, Nephrology; Gabor Zellerman Chair in Nephrology Research, University of Toronto 

Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute

Dr. Heather Reich Chair, Membership & Accreditation Committee
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Dr. Paola Romagnani Co-Chair, Education Committee

Full Professor and Chair of Nephrology, University of Florence

Head of Nephrology and Dialysis, Meyer Children’s University Hospital

Dr. Paola Romagnani Co-Chair, Education Committee
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Dr. Brad H. Rovin Chair, Peer Support CommitteeLee A. Hebert Distinguished Professor of Nephrology, Director of the Division of Nephrology, and Vice Chair of Medicine for Research, Ohio State University
Dr. Brad H. Rovin Chair, Peer Support Committee
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Dr. Matt Sampson Chair, Basic & Translational Research Committee

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

PI & Warren E. Grupe Chair of Pediatric Nephrology, Boston Children’s Hospital

Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Research Faculty, Nephrology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Matt Sampson Chair, Basic & Translational Research Committee
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Dr. Sydney Tang Co-Chair, Peer Support Committee

Chair of Renal Medicine and Yu Professor in Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong

President, Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology

Dr. Sydney Tang Co-Chair, Peer Support Committee
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Joshua M. Tarnoff NephCure RepresentativeCEO, NephCure
Joshua M. Tarnoff NephCure Representative
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Dr. Pierre-Louis Tharaux Chair, Basic & Translational ResearchInserm Research Director & Team Leader, Paris Cardiovascular Center / PARCC @ HEGP, Inserm (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale)
Dr. Pierre-Louis Tharaux Chair, Basic & Translational Research
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Dr. Marina Vivarelli IPNA Representative
Consultant, Renal Glomerulopathies, Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Department of Pediatric Subspecialties, Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, Rome, Italy
 
Chair, European Rare Kidney Disease Network Working Group on Immune-Mediated Glomerulopathies
Dr. Marina Vivarelli IPNA Representative