Kenar D. Jhaveri, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is Chair of ISGD's Education Committee. Dr. Jhaveri completed his residency training at Yale University New Haven Hospital in Internal Medicine and then a fellowship in Nephrology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell campus. His clinical and research interests are in glomerular diseases, AKI, and cancer-related kidney complications or Onconephrology. He is one of the founders of this field back in 2009 and since then has created and led the American Society of Onconephrology (ASON). He is a world leader in this field in nephrology. In addition, he is the founder and program director of the Galdi Fellowship of Glomerular Diseases and Onconephrology at Northwell Health and has won several awards at local, national, and international levels in nephrology and medical education. His interest in nephrology education is vested in using creative ways of teaching nephrology to medical students, residents, and fellows. He has published on onconephrology and also in using social media and other innovative tools (games, concept maps, role playing, creative writing) to make nephrology a fun and exciting field. He has conducted numerous faculty development seminars to teach these techniques and has a teaching-oriented blog at nephronpower.com. He is currently editor in chief of ASN Kidney News, where he also writes the "Detective Nephron" column.
