Call for papers - Advances in renal transplantation

Nada Alachkar, MD, FASN, Associate Professor of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Dr Alachkar is Medical Director of the Incompatible Kidney Transplant Program. She is Associate Professor of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her clinical and research expertise include focal segmental glomerulosclerosis post kidney transplant, recurrent glomerular diseases in the transplanted kidney; incompatible kidney transplant; high immunologic risk kidney transplant; biomarker in kidney transplant; outcome of deceased donor kidney transplant recipients with positive crossmatch; highly sensitized patients: response to desensitization treatments and post transplant outcome; management of antibody mediated rejection; thrombotic microangiopathy post kidney transplant.

Debasish Banerjee, MD, FASN, FHEA, FRCP, Professor and Quality Lead for MBBS program, St George’s University of London, UK

Dr Banerjee is a nephrologist with special interest in cardiovascular complications of chronic kidney disease. He is keen on teaching undergraduate medical students, and is currently Quality Lead for the MBBS program, and joint head of the section of Clinical Teachers in St George’s University of London. He is interested in service development and education on heart diseases in CKD, particularly heart failure. Professor Banerjee established the multidisciplinary CKD-heart failure clinic in St George’s Hospital. His research is on vascular and cardiac changes in CKD, the risk factors, and intervention with randomized controlled trials. He is co-Director of the Translational and Clinical Sciences Research Institute at St George’s University of London. He works in various roles for the International Society of Nephrology, the European Society of Cardiology, and the UK Kidney association.    

Rahul Mainra, MD, MMed, FRCPC, FRACP, Professor of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Transplant Program, Canada

Dr Mainra is a transplant nephrologist with the Saskatchewan Transplant Program and Professor of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. He completed his MD degree and Internal Medicine residency at the University of Saskatchewan, followed by a nephrology fellowship at Western University in London, Ontario. He then completed a Renal transplant fellowship in Sydney, Australia and a Masters in Medicine (Clin Epi) at the University of Sydney.