ISPD - Key Persons
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- Deputy Chair of Committee
- Pakistan ) - Deputy Chair
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- Member of the Education Committee
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- Member of the Membership Committee
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- Nurse
- Member of Committee
Angellina Graham has been employed by Wake Forest Outpatient Dialysis since 1995. Angellina worked in the In-Patient Hemodialysis Department for 3 years while serving as charge nurse. She then transferred to the Home Peritoneal Dialysis Department and assumed the Clinical Nurse Manager position in 2011. Angellina has assisted with many research projects as well as served as an instructor with Baxter for the Wake Forest Peritoneal Dialysis/Home Dialysis University Program. For the past three years Angellina has presented at the ANNA National Conference while instructing fellow peritoneal nurses on infrastructure and maintenance of home departments. Ms. Graham also served on the 2006 KDQOL Adequacy Committee.
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- Member of Committee
- Member of Publications Committee
- Society Administrator
- Society Coordinator
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- President Elect
- Specialist
Brett Cullis is a nephrologist and specialist intensive care physician at Hilton Life Hospital and is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town.
He has a keen interest in intensive care nephrology, especially PD for AKI, and is the primary author of both editions of the ISPD guidelines for PD in AKI.
His other interest is development of programs in low-resource countries having set up a nurse-led PD program in South Africa, been a principle investigator in the ISN kidney care network study and is chair of the Saving Young Lives steering committee. He is co-author of the ISPD guidelines for PD Access and the current PD catheter infection guideline.
He sits on the ISN core programs committee, ISN regional board, ISN dialysis working group, and ISN-WHO AKI and Dialysis toolkit development group, and he seats on the ISPD council.
Colin White is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Nephrology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is the director of the dialysis program at BC Children's Hospital, as well as the Royal College Fellowship Program Director and the Course Director for two undergraduate medical courses in first and second (planning stages) year medicine. He has been a member of the ISPD since 2005. He has been an invited workgroup member on numerous national and international nephrology panels (KDOQI - Anemia 2006/ KDIGO CKD 2012/ Canadian Society of Nephrology - Anemia 2007 & 2012) and a member of the Renal Work Group on the WHO ICD-11 Code Revision. He participates regularly in the Pediatric component of the Missouri led North American Annual Dialysis Meetings. He has/does review for many journals, including JAMA, PDI, CJASN, AJKD, Pediatric Nephrology and is on the Editorial Board of CJASN. Outside of best clinical practice as such, his interest in terms of PD involve teaching/education of fellows and nurses to promote use and best practice of what is generally the most available and convenient dialysis modality for most patients and families.
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- Director of the Metro South
David Johnson is currently Director of the Metro South and Ipswich Nephrology and Transplant Service (MINTS) and Medical Director of the Queensland Renal Transplant Service at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Population Health at University of Queensland, and Director of the Centre for Kidney Disease Research, Brisbane, Australia. He has a number of international leadership responsibilities, including President of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, Councillor of the International Society of Nephrology, Co-Chair of the ISN Global Kidney Health Atlas, and Co-Chair of the Global PDOPPS Steering Committee. His national leadership positions include Chair of three separate CARI Guideline Working Groups (Peritoneal Dialysis Adequacy, Evaluation of Renal Function and Management of Early CKD), Chair of the Kidney Check Australia Taskforce, Co-Chair of the Australasian Creatinine and eGFR Consensus Working Party, Co-Chair of the Australasian Proteinuria Consensus Working Party, Deputy Chair of the Australasian Kidney Trials Network, Deputy Chair of the NHMRC Better Evidence And Translation in Chronic Kidney Disease (BEAT-CKD) program, and Member and Past-Chair of the ANZDATA Registry Peritoneal Dialysis Working Group. He was Chair of the Queensland Statewide Renal Clinical Network from 2008 until 2013. He is the principal investigator on a number of large, multi-centre randomised controlled trials, including the balANZ, HERO, IDEAL, IMPENDIA, HONEYPOT and CKD-FIX trials, and is chair of the Data Safety and Monitoring Board for the FINESSE trial. He has published over 800 original manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and presented over 450 abstracts at national and international scientific meetings. He has won numerous research awards for his clinical and basic science studies in the areas of peritoneal dialysis outcomes, cardiovascular risk factor modification in uraemia, renal transplantation, dialysis unit infection control, treatment of acute kidney injury and mechanisms of progressive chronic kidney disease. In 2005, he was awarded the TJ Neale Award by the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology for "outstanding contributions to nephrologic science." He was a Queensland finalist in the Australian of the Year Awards for 2009. On Australia Day 2011, he was awarded a Public Service Medal by the Governor-General of Australia for outstanding public service, particularly research into the early detection and management of kidney disease. He also successfully co-ordinated the largest-ever evacuation of dialysis patients in Australia during the Cyclone Yasi crisis in 2011. In 2014, he was awarded an International Distinguished Medal by the US National Kidney Foundation and in 2017 he was awarded the Dimitrios Oreopoulos Award by the Canadian Society of Nephrology.
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- Secretary
- Senior Consultant
Dr Adrian Liew is a Senior Consultant Nephrologist and Director of The Kidney & Transplant Practice at the Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital in Singapore. He was the founding Chief of Nephrology at the Department of Renal Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the LKC School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University-Imperial College London before moving to his current role. He has been elected as a Fellow to various academic institutions including the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom, American Society of Nephrology and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. He is a Scientific Leader with George Clinical and sits on the Steering Committees of various international clinical trials in nephrology. He has been actively involved in the training and development of glomerular disease and peritoneal dialysis programs in various countries around Southeast Asia and has provided sister renal centre mentorship to nephrologists in several developing countries. His research interests are in peritoneal dialysis, glomerular diseases and diabetic kidney disease, and he is the recipient of the 2020 John Maher award from the ISPD.
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- Editor in Chief
- Member of Committee
- Member of Publications Committee
Dr Jeffrey Perl graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto in 2003. He completed his post-graduate training at The University of Toronto in both Internal Medicine and Nephrology in 2008. In 2010, he completed his Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from The Harvard School of Public Health. Currently Jeffrey Perl is a staff nephrologist at, St Michael's Hospital in Toronto and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. In 2016 he was awarded The John Maher Young Investigator Award by the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis. His primary research interests and clinical practice focuses on improving the survival and quality of life for patients on peritoneal dialysis. Dr. Perl is a primary investigator in The Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS).
Dr. Anjali Bhatt Saxena, MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Director of Peritoneal Dialysis at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California. She has served as the Medical Director for an independent Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Clinic in San Jose, CA since 2004, overseeing a large PD clinic. She is a dedicated member of the faculty of the Stanford Nephrology Fellowship Program, serves as the site director for Nephrology Fellowship education, and has received several teaching awards. She is engaged in providing education in home dialysis, and as such has been a faculty member of the Home Dialysis University (HDU) since 2007, providing home dialysis education to hundreds of US Nephrology Fellows and Nephrologists at all levels of experience. She has delivered numerous invited lectures at international meetings such as ASN-Kidney Week, the Annual Dialysis Conference, and International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis World Congress. She has published book chapters in key Nephrology texts as well as manuscripts on peritoneal dialysis and renal pathophysiology in various peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Saxena is dedicated to the growth and support of PD worldwide; she is the Treasurer for the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) and is a Past-President of the North American Chapter of the ISPD. She is an Educational Ambassador for the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), and together with her Stanford colleagues has developed a sister-Renal Center program that has grown and supported the growth of a PD program in a low-income area of Sri Lanka.
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- Professor of Medicine at the Medical University
Dr. Joanna Rowinska is a Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of Warsaw and Head of the Department of Nephrology, Dialysis & Internal Diseases. She has been an active clinical nephrologist for over 20 years. Dr Rowinska's main clinical interests are: acute and chronic renal failure and different forms of dialysis therapy. She is a director of hemodialysis program for 80-90 patients and peritoneal dialysis program for 60 patients with end-stage renal disease.
Her research interests include: cardiovascular disease in uremia, renal osteodystrophy and endocrine disorders in uremia. She has published or co-authored over 140 original or review articles and book chapters.
Edwina Brown is President of the ISPD 2022-24. She has been involved in peritoneal dialysis throughout her clinical career and initiated and developed assisted PD in the UK. She has been on the organizing faculty of the UK PD Academy since its initiation in around 2000. She has been the lead investigator in several multicentre studies which have widened access to PD: EAPOS (European APD Outcome Study), BOLDE (Broadening Options for Long-term Dialysis in the Elderly) and FEPOD (Frail Elderly Patient Outcomes on Dialysis). As chair of the ISPD guidelines committee, she led the 2016 update of length of time on PD, and the 2020 practice recommendations for goal-oriented, high quality PD. She has also been involved in ISPD CME events in several countries in Africa (Kenya, Senegal, Ethiopia, Sudan) and Asia (Sri Lanka and Pakistan). She has initiated the formation of the International Home Dialysis Consortium joint with the International Society of Nephrology with the aim of increasing access to PD in high and low income countries.
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- Member of the Membership Committee
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- Canada ) - Nurse Member
- Nurse Practitioner in Nephrology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto
For the past 30 years she has been working in nephrology nursing, most recently with a focus on peritoneal dialysis. Her initial nursing education was in London, England. She graduated from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada with a Masters in Nursing (1991) and then completed the Nurse Practitioner programme at the same university (1995). She also has her certification in nephrology nursing from the Canadian Nurses Association. For 15 years (1997-2012), she was the Editor of the CANNT Journal (Journal of the Canadian Association of Nephrology Nurses and Technologists). For the past four years, she has been Chair of the Nursing Liaison Committee of the ISPD and has been involved in projects related to the work of the ISPD. Currently, she is a nurse practitioner in nephrology working on the in-patient nephrology ward at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada.
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- Member of the Education Committee
The Finance Committee of the ISPD will supervise the finances of the ISPD and support the work of the ISPD treasurer.
The Finance Committee sets out to maintain a high standard in the financial management of the society, ensuring a sustainable financial future and increasing the opportunities to fund and support different initiatives to advance the objectives of the society.
Helen Hurst has worked in the NHS for over 25 years. From 2000 she worked as an advanced nurse practitioner in renal medicine within Manchester University Foundation (MFT) Trust, specialising in peritoneal dialysis. Her most recent appointment of Consultant Nurse for Older People and Frailty is a joint clinical and academic position within the Trust and Manchester University. She is also part of a strategic alliance with Manchester Metropolitan University to develop education and is developing masters levels courses for frailty and older people. She is the clinical lead for the renal course at Manchester University and was instrumental in re-establishing it 3 years ago. She has been involved in research and completed a PhD in 2011 in patient experience of Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis but has collaborated on many research projects and is a regular reviewer for specialist and nursing journals. She is current Vice President of the British Renal Society Education Committee. She has co-authored some of the ISPD guidelines for Peritoneal Dialysis. She has formulated a renal patient research group and is interested in patient involvement and collaboration in research. She has worked with NICE on a clinical guideline and is now a clinical expert for NICE. She has presented nationally and internationally. She has recently completed a CLAHRC fellowship undertaking a project on open visiting and has recently been awarded an MFT post-doctoral senior clinical academic fellowship an opportunity to continue research in older people and chronic kidney disease. As a nominated research champion Helen is interested in research capacity building and engaging nurses and AHP's in research.
Launching the call for research proposals during the last months of each calendar year. Responding to all the questions from researchers interested in submitting a proposal. Evaluating the research proposals and submitting an evaluation report to the ISPD Council including a recommendation for endorsement and, eventually, financial support for research proposals of meritocratic value.
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- Consultant
- Professor of Internal Medicine / Nephrology
Dr.Teitelbaum is Professor of Internal Medicine/Nephrology and Director of the Home Dialysis Program at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Teitelbaum has been an active clinical nephrologist for over 25 years. He manages 55 end stage renal disease patients in addition to maintaining a busy clinical and consultative practice. He is also Medical Director of the Acute Dialysis Unit at the University of Colorado Hospital.
Dr.Teitelbaum serves as a consultant to industry and has actively participated in numerous clinical trials and educational workshops. He has published or co-authored over 90 articles and/or book chapters and serves as a reviewer for numerous journals.
Dr. Teitelbaum has served the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis in the past as Chairperson of the Education Committee and, since 2006, as Treasurer of the Society.
Maintaining and regularly updating the capability of the website of the ISPD to optimally serve its objectives by using the latest relevant digital information technology. Maintaining and updating the social media channels of the Society with relevant content, and assisting in the engagement of online discussions where necessary. Assisting the ISPD Executive and the ISPD Society Coordinator to prepare a periodical newsletter. Defining and supervising the implementation of a comprehensive national, regional and international digital communication plan. It will also oversee the marketing and public relation activities of the Society. Highlighting ISPD activities and projects, and coordinating these activities through the website and social media channels. Engaging ISPD registrants/members through regular surveys, discussions and forums. Helping the ISPD main conference(s) to increase their impact and visibility through various communication channels, liaising with the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) and the ISPD office bearers/Committee chairs.
Encouraging nursing and AHP research and publications in the official journal of ISPD. Promoting nursing and AHP membership in the ISPD within each country. Providing an annual report of the committee's activities to ISPD Council. Attending committee meetings and ensuring representation at ISPD Council meetings. Ensuring nursing and AHP representation across all groups/committees of the ISPD. Providing the necessary advice or resources to ISPD membership with respect to nursing and AHP issues in peritoneal dialysis or nephrology. Being the liaison to other ISPD committees in order to help them achieve their mandate. Advising the ISPD congress organizers on the development of the nursing and AHP program and supporting the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the ISPD Congress by recommending Nursing and AHP speakers, reviewing the scientific program, abstracts and providing guidance. Disseminating information regarding different ISPD grants for nursing and AHP members in different countries, including ISPD fellowships and travel bursaries. Involving allied health professionals including dieticians, renal pharmacists and social workers into the scientific program at the ISPD Congress. Maintaining and updating nursing and AHP related contents on the ISPD website, to be in line with other ISPD educational activities.
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- Member of the Education Committee
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- Member of the Finance Committee
- Treasurer
- Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCLA
- Chairman As of January 1st 2025
Dr. Shen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCLA and a practicing nephrologist at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a safety-net hospital in Los Angeles, California, USA. She received her MD from Columbia University, did her internal medicine training at UCLA, and completed her nephrology fellowship and earned a Master's degree in Epidemiology from Stanford University.
Dr. Shen's research focuses on assessing and improving the outcomes on peritoneal dialysis, with a particular emphasis on health disparities. Her expertise is in analyzing large databases. She has also been active in promoting patient-centered care through qualitative research. She has received funding from the NIH for her research.
Specific to her work in the field of peritoneal dialysis, Dr. Shen was a member-at-large of the North American Council of the ISPD from 2017-2022 and is currently on the ISPD Membership Committee. She is involved in patient-centered outcomes as a member of the Standardized Outcomes in Nephrology -Peritoneal Dialysis Initiative, which aims to define a core set of outcomes to be reported in clinical trials that are relevant to patients and caregivers. Dr. Shen is also involved in the Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS) as a member of the steering committee and as the co-chair of the US advisory panel.
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- Australia ) - Nurse Member
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- Member of the Membership Committee
The Membership Committee of the ISPD will reach out to members of the ISPD to understand their needs and providing the Council with recommendations on initiatives for promoting new memberships and retaining existing ones.
The committee will work with the Communications and Media Committee of the ISPD to enhance communications with its members, and to develop ways of increasing the sense of belonging of members to the ISPD.
Joanne Bargman is a staff nephrologist at the University Health Network and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She received her MD cum laude from the University of Toronto. She was an exchange fellow in Melbourne for her senior medical residency year, and then pursued nephrology training at Stanford University. Her research focused on renal physiology and micropuncture. Upon returning to Toronto, she was recruited to the Toronto Western Hospital where she trained in peritoneal dialysis under Dimitrios Oreopoulos.
She has more than 200 invited lectures internationally, on subjects as diverse as peritoneal dialysis, calciphylaxis, and management of glomerulonephritis. Currently she is Director of the Peritoneal Dialysis Unit and co-director of the Combined Renal-Rheumatology Lupus Clinic at the University Health Network. She has won faculty-wide teaching awards, at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Johann Morelle, MD, PhD, is physician-scientist in the Division of Nephrology at the Saint-Luc Academic Hospital and Professor of Medicine and Nephrology at UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium.
Johann Morelle has developed expertise in translational research at the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research at UCLouvain, in the group of Olivier Devuyst. Using a multidisciplinary approach including studies on patients, mouse models of PD, cellular models, and human and mouse genetics, the group investigates the mechanisms and pathophysiology of peritoneal transport. In that line, Johann Morelle contributed to demonstrate the mechanisms of osmosis and the role of water channels in PD; to substantiate the link between vascular proliferation or fibrosis and loss of ultrafiltration; to unravel molecular mechanisms of the immune response during acute PD-related peritonitis and their impact on membrane integrity and transport; and to delineate the role of genetic factors to explain individual variability in transport parameters.
Johann Morelle strongly believes in the importance of education and dissemination of PD. He serves as board member of the Education Committee of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis since 2012 and is member of the H2020 ITN IMPROVE-PD consortium; member of the European Reference Network for Rare Kidney Diseases; and board member of the transdisciplinary Louvain4Water consortium. He was awarded several national and international prizes; has given more than 35 invited lectures and published 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals; and regularly serves as reviewer for scientific journals, including Peritoneal Dialysis International, Kidney International, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, American Journal of Kidney Diseases; Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation, Clinical Science, and Frontiers in Physiology.
John Burkart, M.D. is tenured Professor of medicine/nephrology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston Salem, N.C. He is Chief Medical Officer for Health Systems Management, Inc. proding outpatient dialysis services at Wake Forest University and Emory University. (19 centers, 1920 patients). He did his medical school at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois. He did his residency training and fellowship at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University. He has served on the KDOQI-PD Adequacy work group since it's formation, most recently as co-chair for the 3rd version of these guidelines.
He has been a general council representative, Treasurer, President-elect, President and is now immediate past President of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis. He has served as a member of the CMS advisory council for dialysis reimbursement based on case mix. He has been repeatedly elected to the Wake Forest University Physicians advisory council and eight member executive Board. This board has oversight for the financial and medical aspects of the clinical operations of Wake Forest University Medical School. He has been a co-investigater in the NIH sponsored MDRD study, Hemo trial and currently is involved in the Frequent Hemodialysis trial. He is currently co-chair of the American Society of Nephrology Board Review Course and Update. He has authored many chapters on peritoneal dialysis in major nephrology text books, has co-written two editions of the ASN dialysis NephSAP, and parts of Up To Date.
He remains clinically active and is interested in all clinical aspects of ESRD specifically home therapies such as PD and HD.
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- Chairman
- Member of the ISPD Standards and Guidelines Committee
- Professor
Professor Chow is the current Chair for the ISPD Nursing Committee, member of the ISPD Council, and member of the ISPD Standards and Guidelines Committee.
Coming from the background of a renal nurse, Josephine Chow is the foundation Professor, South Western Sydney (SWS) Nursing and Midwifery Research Alliance, and the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research. She is the Deputy Director of Research, SWS Local Health District (LHD). She manages a team of staff in supporting a large number of research, innovations, major contracts, and model of care redesign.
Professor Chow was the inaugural Executive Director, Operation for the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research & Enterprise, and led the submissions for recognition by NHMRC as an Advanced Health Research and Translation Centre. She is the Honorary Professor, the University of New South Wales, Western Sydney University and the University of Sydney and she holds senior executive positions and a portfolio in NSW Health which has influenced government policy and clinical practice through roles on State Clinical Networks (Executive Sponsor, Chair and/or members of Peak Committees).
Professor Chow has developed and successfully implemented the SWSLHD Clinical Nurse Consultant Research Quarantine Time Program and fosters the capacity and capability development of nurses and midwives. Furthermore, her translational research and implementation work have had major impacts on policy and clinical practice in many areas: i) Prof Chow in partnership with palliative care clinicians, developed, implemented, and evaluated a new model of care in community palliative care in the Last Days of Life. ii) TEACH-PD, a pragmatic phase 4 cluster RCT, randomising PD units to implement TEACH-PD training curriculum targeted at PD trainers and incident PD patients versus standard existing practices. 42 clusters were recruited to participate with the trial. She is the Co-PI for the TEACH-PD Pilot study (Completed) and the Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial: the world's first digital online training platform for dialysis nurses iii) Professor Chow is the founding (2009) Chair of the HOME Network (THN), an Australasia initiative to promote home dialysis. iv) Professor Chow has led more than ten COVID-19 studies since 2010, wearable remote monitoring, investigating vaccination hesitancy, and using a number of digital healthcare strategies to support the successful high uptake of vaccination in the community. She leads the investigation of the effectiveness of a new model of care that emerged during COVID periods which led to policies being developed with the COVID pandemic team locally and nationally, keeping the community safe.
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- Member of the Nominating Committee
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- Chief of Nephrology at the National Heart Institute in Mexico City
Magdalena Madero, MD, is the Chief of Nephrology at the National Heart Institute in Mexico City. She was trained in Internal Medicine at St Elisabeth's Medical Center in Boston, MA, and then underwent her nephrology training at Tufts Medical Center also in Boston, MA. She went back to Mexico City in 2007 where she joined the nephrology staff at the National Heart Institute and became the Head of the Nephrology Division in 2011.
Dr. Madero's research interests include CKD progression, complications and outcomes in addition to CKD of unknown origin and chronic renal replacement therapies. She has over 70 publications and 3000 citations. As part of her educational activities she runs one of the largest renal fellowship programs in the country at the National Heart Institute (affiliated to the main National Mexican University [UNAM]) in addition to teaching the nephrology course at the undergraduate Panamerican University medical school. She enjoys patient care and is active in taking care of CKD patients. She was the former President of one of the Mexican Societies of Nephrology (IMIN) and serves as International Editor for the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (2016-2021) and as a member of the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes Executive Committee (2018-2021). She was chosen as Deputy Chair for the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) for Latin America and the Caribbean (2019-2023)..
Mark Lambie completed his clinical training in the West Midlands, UK, and Christchurch, New Zealand, with a PhD from Keele University. He is now a Senior Lecturer in Renal Medicine at Keele University, Honorary Senior Lecturer at Manchester University Centre for Health Informatics and Honorary Consultant Nephrologist at University Hospitals of North Midlands. He is chair of the national Peritoneal Dialysis Clinical Study Group and lead for the clinical home haemodialysis service. He teaches on a variety of national and international courses and leads the academic foundation training programme for Keele.
His research has focused on the role of inflammation in PD patients, particularly with regard to membrane damage, and he has had a major role in the GLOBAL Fluid Study, and the PD Competing Risks for Long Term Outcomes study. He is now the UK lead for P-DOPPS Phase 2, led the national registry report for home dialysis and is part of the INTEGRATED Study Group.
Matthew Oliver is the Medical Director of the home dialysis program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He received his medical degree from the Western University, nephrology fellowship from McMaster University and research training at Duke University in the United States. His interests include assisted PD, optimization of PD use, and quality improvement systems.
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- Member of the Membership Committee
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- Australia ) - Nurse Member
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- Member of the Finance Committee
- Member of Committee
- Society Coordinator
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- Professor of Renal Medicine
Neil Boudville is Professor of Renal Medicine and Sub-Dean for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Western Australia. He is also the Head of Department of the Renal Unit at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and the Medical Director of the WA Home Dialysis Program (WAHDiP). WAHDiP currently have 220 PD patients and 90 Home HD patients in its service and covers the entire state of Western Australia. Neil is also the current Chair of the PD working group for the ANZDATA Registry. He has 4 current NHMRC Project grants and is the Chair of the Scientific Committee for the Australasian Kidney Trials Network.
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- Member of the Education Committee
Prof. Eric Goffin completed his training in Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation at Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc, Brussels (UCL). He also spent a year at the School of Clinical Medicine at Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, UK. He is now Clinical Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain. In the Nephrology team, he is responsible of the self-care dialysis unit (Peritoneal Dialysis, Home Hemodialysis and Hemodialysis within a self-care satellite unit, the Carpe Diem) and co-responsible of the evaluation of renal graft candidates and of the post-transplant outpatient clinic. Throughout his career he authored or co-authored numerous abstracts and over 140 scientific articles and has been an active member of several scientific committees among which the Belgian Transplant Society and the Société de Néphrologie (where he just served as President of the Dialysis Commission). In the past decade, Prof. Eric Goffin also participated in the organization of many conferences, lectures and congresses in which he had responsibilities as both key speaker and chairman. His topics of interest include clinical outcomes in Clinical TP, Home HD and Peritoneal Dialysis patients, as well as in peritoneal transport properties.
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- Member of the Nominating Committee
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- Member of the Finance Committee
- Member of Committee
Develop and Review the annual budget of the ISPD. Review the accuracy of the unaudited financial reports of the society. Assist the Treasurer in preparing the annual financial report to Council. Provide oversight and, where appropriate, make recommendations to the Council on the following matters with regards to banking and investments: Banking investments, revenue and expenditure. Interest rates, exchange rates and other investment strategies. Compliance with the applicable legislation, government directives and bylaws, as applicable. Provide oversight, and where appropriate, review and make recommendations to Council on the financial implications of contracts and agreements, executed by the ISPD. Provide oversight of the financial risk management and make recommendations to Council on the financial sustainability of the ISPD.
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- Member of the Nominating Committee
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- Member of the Membership Committee
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- Member of the Membership Committee
Fostering affiliation with the ISPD by recommending suitable and practical benefits to its membership. Developing, implementing and evaluating innovative initiatives in recruiting and retaining members, with emphasis on young physicians, academic practitioners and past members. Monitoring and reviewing membership statistics for any adverse trends. Promoting equitable distribution of memberships across different continents, healthcare economies and infrastructure. Providing opportunities for networking amongst members via the online membership directory. Working together with the Communications and Media Committee of the ISPD to ensure accurate and timely dissemination of important information to all members.
Professor Chow is the current Chair for the ISPD Nursing Committee, member of the ISPD Council, and member of the ISPD Standards and Guidelines Committee.
Coming from the background of a renal nurse, Josephine Chow is the foundation Professor, South Western Sydney (SWS) Nursing and Midwifery Research Alliance, and the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research. She is the Deputy Director of Research, SWS Local Health District (LHD). She manages a team of staff in supporting a large number of research, innovations, major contracts, and model of care redesign.
Professor Chow was the inaugural Executive Director, Operation for the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research & Enterprise, and led the submissions for recognition by NHMRC as an Advanced Health Research and Translation Centre. She is the Honorary Professor, the University of New South Wales, Western Sydney University and the University of Sydney and she holds senior executive positions and a portfolio in NSW Health which has influenced government policy and clinical practice through roles on State Clinical Networks (Executive Sponsor, Chair and/or members of Peak Committees).
Professor Chow has developed and successfully implemented the SWSLHD Clinical Nurse Consultant Research Quarantine Time Program and fosters the capacity and capability development of nurses and midwives. Furthermore, her translational research and implementation work have had major impacts on policy and clinical practice in many areas: i) Prof Chow in partnership with palliative care clinicians, developed, implemented, and evaluated a new model of care in community palliative care in the Last Days of Life. ii) TEACH-PD, a pragmatic phase 4 cluster RCT, randomising PD units to implement TEACH-PD training curriculum targeted at PD trainers and incident PD patients versus standard existing practices. 42 clusters were recruited to participate with the trial. She is the Co-PI for the TEACH-PD Pilot study (Completed) and the Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial: the world's first digital online training platform for dialysis nurses iii) Professor Chow is the founding (2009) Chair of the HOME Network (THN), an Australasia initiative to promote home dialysis. iv) Professor Chow has led more than ten COVID-19 studies since 2010, wearable remote monitoring, investigating vaccination hesitancy, and using a number of digital healthcare strategies to support the successful high uptake of vaccination in the community. She leads the investigation of the effectiveness of a new model of care that emerged during COVID periods which led to policies being developed with the COVID pandemic team locally and nationally, keeping the community safe.
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- Member of the Education Committee
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- Member of the Education Committee
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- Member of Publications Committee
Maintaining a fluid communication with the publisher of PDI. Ensure that the contract with the publisher of the PDI journal is fulfilled. At the end of the publishing contract, lead the process to renew the aforementioned contract or lead the process to select a new publisher.