Clinician Researcher in one of India's largest hospitals, interested in learning all aspects of clinical kidney transplantation. Took up social media mostly to learn. Now I am part of ISN Education and have been part of WCN 2019,2020,2021 and 2022. Founder President of Women in Nephrology -India (a vibrant organisation involved in various aspects of training of Nephrology and issues of women.)

I am Head of the Nephrology & Transplantation Laboratory at Erasmus Medical Center, University Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The position involves the supervision of doctorate research related to the role of cytokines, T cells and B cells, and immunosuppressive drugs in clinical organ transplantation. The primary objective of my research is to develop and exploit new technologies for the diagnosis of transplant rejection using blood and urinary biomarkers. I am a member of TTS, ESOT, ISHLT, and the Dutch Transplant Society.

Stéphanie has a background in Biotechnology and Applied Arts. In 2017, she joined the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM) as a research coordinator in kidney transplantation. In 2019, she joined the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program (CDTRP) as the Communications and Data Manager. In this role, Stéphanie manages the CDTRP’s website, the various social media platforms, and all the visual and technical aspects of the virtual and in-person conferences. She is the creative mind of CDTRP and a fervent behind the scene worker. Stéphanie is based out in Montréal, where she lives with her cat. She is passionate about culture (music, books, movies) and is a fancy natural wine and craft beer drinker.

I am an Associate Professor of Surgery and Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and the Director of the Center for Surgical and Transplant Applied Research Qualitative Core at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, with an NIH and DoD funded research program.

Hector M. Madariaga, MD is a transplant nephrologist at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Madariaga completed his nephrology fellowship at Upstate Medical University Hospital in Syracuse, NY followed by a transplant fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Madariaga’s clinical interests include racial and ethnic disparities in kidney transplantation and access to care, as well as medically complicated transplant candidates and recipients and simultaneous liver kidney transplant recipients. He also has an interest in social media and medical education and serves on the Executive Committee of NephJC (Nephrology Journal Club) a twitter-based, twice-a-month journal club and as a faculty member for the Nephrology Social Media Collective (NSMC) internship. Dr. Madariaga is also a social media editor for the Kidney Medicine Journal.

Nephrologist specialized in Kidney Transplantation
Nephropathology
Member of International Society of Nephrology
Peruvian Socierty of Nephrology
interests: kidney transplantation

Dorry is a TTS Councilor and has been a proponent of TTS and contributor for TTS for many years. His currently Professor of Surgery and Population Health & Transplant Surgeon, NYU. Director, NYU Center for Surgical and Transplant Applied Research.

Nephrologist & Transplant Physician – Interest in transplant infectious disease, transplant immunology ISN-ANIO Indukaka Ipcowala Advanced Scholar in Renal Transplantation (Cincinnati, USA) ISOT- Novartis Transplant Fellow 2018 Editorial Fellow – Indian Journal of Organ Transplantation Contributor and reviewer of multiple PubMed indexed journals in Nephrology and book chapters Active interest in nephrology education – NSMC graduate, #NephJC

My name is Leonie van Leeuwen and I am a basic scientist and Post-Doctoral researcher, affiliated with the University of Groningen in The Netherlands and the University of Oxford in The United Kingdom.  I have a background in Biomedical Sciences and Medical Pharmaceutical Drug Innovation. My research focus is on renal fibrosis, targeted drug delivery using ex-vivo machine perfusion, and renal protein degradation during transplantation. My aim is to help improve organ preservation, perfusion, and repair.

Alan N. Houghton Chair
Head, Division of Hematologic Malignancies
Attending Physician, Department of Medicine
Member, Immunology Program

Marcel van den Brink is a physician scientist and medical oncologist who performs both laboratory and clinical research related to allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) and immuno-oncology. He is the Head of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and holds a joint appointment in the Immunology and Transplantation Program of the Sloan Kettering Institute. He is the Co-Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at MSKCC and Chairman of the Board of DKMS, an international nonprofit organization devoted to bone marrow donor registration. As a clinical scientist, he is involved in immunotherapeutic trials of cytokines, cell therapies, as well as strategies to manipulate the intestinal microbiome for patients with hematologic malignancies. His laboratory is devoted to the immunology of BMT and he studies immune reconstitution, pathophysiology of graft-versus-host disease, the intestinal microbiota, and chimeric antigen receptor T cells in patients and preclinical models. Both as a Division Head and a laboratory Principal Investigator, he mentors junior faculty members, hematology oncology fellows, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students.