Young Nephrologist Committee Mentoring Program

Young Nephrologist Committee Mentoring Program

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The ISN-YNC Mentoring Program was established in 2010 in order to foster international relationships between nephrologists and nephrologists-in-training or more junior nephrologists/nephrology researchers. The participants communicate primarily by email or teleconferences usually once or twice per month to discuss clinical cases and/or research projects of mutual interest. We are actively expanding this program to include more mentors from the ISN Young Nephrologists’ Committee as well as more senior members of the ISN leadership.

The program has a special interest in promoting exchange visits between the mentees and the mentors so that all can learn from each other. Therefore, participants of this program will be given additional consideration when applying for ISN Global Outreach (GO) or ISN Research Fellowship travel awards.

Faculty mentors should be members of academic medical centers with experience in clinical nephrology and/or research. Mentors who are currently in fellowship training are also welcomed and will be paired with medical students or medical residents. As a general rule, mentors will be assigned to no more than two people at any given time.

Interested in Being Mentored

If you are interested in being mentored, please send the following by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. :

1. Your level of training (i.e. student, resident, fellow, post-doctoral research, or junior faculty)
2. Primary area of interest (i.e. clinical work, basic science research, or clinical research)
3. Your first, second, and third choice of potential mentors (see list below - click on View Profile to get more information on current research interests and summary of positions)
4. Language(s) spoken

Interested in Mentoring

If you are interested in serving as a mentor, please submit a brief biography including research interests (see samples below in View Profile) and a photo to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Please specify the following:

1.  Current profession titles, position, and institution as well as years of appointment
2.  Clinical interests and expertise
3.  Research interests and expertise
4.  Language(s) spoken
5.  Level of mentoring preferred: medical student, resident trainee, fellow trainee, junior faculty, or all of the above.

Meet Our Mentors
View Profile	Roberto Pecoits-Filho, MD, PhD Professor of Nephrology and Director PhD and Master Programs in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
View Profile	Fatiu Abiola Arogundade, MB, BS, FMCP, FWACP, ISN Fellow Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University and Honorary Consultant to the Teaching Hospitals Complex Osun State, Nigeria
View Profile	Fiona Brown, MBBS FRACP PhD Dept. of Nephrology, Monash Medical Centre Melbourne, Australia
	Mark Courtney University of Alberta Alberta, Canada
View Profile	Vassilios Liakopoulos, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Nephrology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital Thessaloniki, Greece
View Profile	Julie Lin, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, USA   +++Currently not accepting new mentees+++
	Aggrey Maweeba BscHb, MbChB, MMED, ISN Fellow, Cert. Neph (SA) Head of Renal unit, UTH, Focal point Person- Kidney diseases - MOH, Consultant Physician/ Nephrologist, University Teaching Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine Lusaka, Zambia
View Profile	Tom Nijenhuis, MD, PhD Internist-Nephrologist, Department of Nephrology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre Nijmegen, The Netherlands
View Profile	Jeffrey Perl MD SM FRCP (C) Division of Nephrology, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto Toronto, Canada
View Profile	Manisha Sahay Professor of Nephrology at Osmania Medical College and Osmania General Hospital, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
View Profile	Qiquan Sun, MD, PhD Co-Director, Renal Transplant Center Research Institute of Nephrology, Jinling Hospital Nanjing University School of Medicine Nanjing, China
View Profile	Mahmut Ilker Yilmaz, MD Associate Professor, Department of Nephrology, Gulhane School of Medicine Ankara, Turkey
View Profile	Claudio Ronco, MD Director, Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, International Renal Research Institute, St Bortolo Hospital Vicenza, Italy