Council

Charles Swanepoel is an Emeritus Associate Professor in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertrension, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town (UCT). He continues with post-graduate teaching at UCT.

He has contributed significantly to the development of guidelines for the management of patients with CKD and AKI in South Africa. He has published in various prestigious nephrology journals including, Kidney International, NDT, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Nephrology and Nature Reviews Nephrology.

He is a reviewer for Kidney International, Lancet, Nephrology, African J of Nephrol, CJASN and SAMJ.
He served as a subject Editor for Nephrology.
Presently is a member of the Editorial Board of Kidney Diseases.
He is Past President of AFRAN (African Association of Nephrology) and of the SA Renal Society.
He is a council member of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN). 2019-2021.
He is the Chair of the ISN African Regional Board. 2019 – 2021.
He has been associated with Fresenius Medical Care since 2003 and subsequently became the Fresenius Country Medical Director.

Dr Kazancioglu is a Professor of Nephrology and Vice-Chancellor at Bezmialem Vakif University in Istanbul. Professor Kazancioglu studied medicine at Istanbul University and undertook a clinical fellowship in nephrology, during which time she also received a fellowship grant from the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) to work at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashvillle, USA in 2000.

Professor Kazancioglu was elected and is still a council member and the chair of Central and Eastern Europe of ISN since 2015. Since then she is still a member of the Fellowship program committee and Renal disaster preparedness working group of ISN. She served for two years in the awards committee and now is ready to work with the Emerging leaders program group.

She continues her work at Bezmialem Vakif University as a dedicated educator internationally (already hosted ISN fellow) and nationally. Since 2015 many ISN CME courses have been organized in Central and East Europe with her support. Her main interest is in peritoneal dialysis (PD) and she was involved at many PD academies and hands-on courses for PD catheter insertion locally and internationally in the region as well.

Prof. Vladimir Tesar, MD, PhD, MBA, FASN, FERA, born May 5, 1957,

Graduated form Charles University in Prague, Professor of Medicine and Head of Department of Nephrology, General University Hospital, Charles University, Prague (since 2003), 1999 – 2005 vice-dean for research and science, 1st School of Medicine, Charles University, Prague.

Member of ISN (since 1993), since 2017 vice-chair of CEE Regional Board and the Council of ISN

Member of the Council of ERA/EDTA (2011 – 2014), chair of the board of the Immunonephrology Working Group of ERA-EDTA (since 2015)

President of the Czech Society of Nephrology (1999 – 2004, 2010 – 2012 and 2016-2020)

Member of the editorial board of CJASN, Nephrology,Dialysis, Transplantation and Journal of Nephrology

Longterm interest in glomerular disease, inherited diseases of the kidney and cardiovascular complications of kidney disease, more than 400 original publications according to Pubmed, H-index 34

Walter Douthat, has graduated as a doctor in (1987), as Nephrologist (1991), and obtain the Doctoral title (1997) at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina. Also, he was a fellow in clinical and experimental research at the University of Oviedo (1991-1994) Spain, under the tutelage of Dr Jorge Cannata Andía. He is head of the dialysis unit, and the Bone and Mineral Section at Hospital Privado in Cordoba. His teaching activity is carried out as Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences(IUCBC) and he is the current Director of the Postgraduate Career in Nephrology at the Catholic University of Cordoba.

He has developed an extensive activity in scientific societies. He was President of the Cordoba Nephrology Society (2003-2005). He was also secretary (2005-2007), president-elect (2007-2009) and president (2009-2011) of the Argentinian Society of Nephrology (SAN). In the Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension (SLANH) was president-elect (2012-2014), President (2014-2017) and past-president (2017-2019). He has also played an active role in different ISN committees (CME, Awards, Nominating and Emerging Leadership). He is currently the Chair of the LA Regional Board (LARB) and one of the members of the ISN Council.

Magdalena Madero, MD, is the Chief of Nephrology at the National Heart Institute in Mexico City. As part of her educational activities she runs one of the largest renal fellowship programs in the country. She is involved in CKD progression , CKDu and Hemodialysis research. 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).

Shahrzad Ossareh- M.D.
Professor of Medicine Head, Section of Nephrology and Hemodialysis Ward, Hasheminejad Kidney Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences

Director of Nephrology and Fellowship Program, Hasheminejad Kidney Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences
Secretary General of Iranian Society of Nephrology
Council Member of International Society of Nephrology
Chair of Middle East Regional Board of International Society of Nephrology

Dr Elena Zakharova is a head of Nephrology Department of Moscow City Clinical Hospital n.a. S.P. Botkin, associate Professor of Nephrology in the Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, and in the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry.

She was born in Moscow, studied General Medicine in the Institute of Medicine and Dentistry, graduated residency in nephrology, and defended her PhD Thesis “Prognostic Factors of Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Systemic Vasculitis with Kidney Involvement”. Her current research interests include diagnostics and treatment of idiopathic glomerulonephritis, systemic diseases, thrombotic microangiopathies, monoclonal gammopathies of renal significance, and pregnancy-related kidney disorders; she authored and co-authored 165 publications in Russian and International journals. Dr Zakharova is currently the Russian Dialysis Society president.

Elena Zakharova is an active member of the ISN since 2006; she is currently the ISN ExCom and Council member, EAP Committee chair, and Regional Board for NIS&Russia co-chair.

Dr. Abduzhappar Gaipov is a board-certified nephrologist in Kazakhstan. He obtained his MD degree from Kh.A. Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University (Kazakhstan) and graduated his Doctorate program in Clinical Science (Internal Medicine) from National Scientific Medical Center (Kazakhstan).

Dr. Gaipov has completed 18 months ERA-EDTA research fellowship program in 2011-2012 years (Turkey). He has also completed his Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar supported by ISN Research Fellowship and spent 1.5 years between January 2017 to July 2018 at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN, USA.

Dr. Abduzhappar Gaipov is an active member of ISN, ERA-EDTA, TTS, Turkic World Transplantation Society and general secretary of Kazakhstan Society of Nephrologists, Dialysis, and Transplant Physicians. He also boards member of Young Nephrology Committee (YNC-ISN) and Deputy Chair of ISN NIS & Russia region. Currently, Dr. Gaipov started his academic career as an assistant professor at the Nazarbayev University School of Medicine.

Myles Wolf is Charles Johnson, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Nephrology at the Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Wolf received his MD from the State University of New York–Downstate, completed Internal Medicine and Nephrology training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and obtained a Master of Medical Sciences degree in Clinical and Physiological Investigation from Harvard Medical School.

The focus of Dr. Wolf’s clinical trials, patient-oriented, epidemiological, and laboratory research is fibroblast growth factor 23 and disordered mineral metabolism across the spectrum of kidney disease from early stages to end-stage renal disease and following kidney transplantation. Dr. Wolf was elected to the Council of the International Society of Nephrology in 2017 and as Chair of its North American and Caribbean Regional Board in 2019.

Dr Wong obtained his MBBS in 2000 follows by MRCP (UK) and Nephrology training in Malaysia before migrating to Australia where he obtained his Fellowship in Nephrology and a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 2010.

He is currently a Renal Staff Specialist at the Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH), and a Senior Clinical Lecturer of University of Sydney and University of NSW. He is a Clinician Researcher through his capacity as the Senior Research Fellow at the Kolling Institute and the George Institute for Global Health. He pursues a strong interest in research in understanding the pathomechanism of kidney fibrosis and has actively promoted the development of both clinical and pre-clinical research in delaying CKD progression in diabetic nephropathy, IgA nephropathy and management of cardiovascular complications associated with CKD.

He currently serves as the Head of the Renal Clinical trial unit at the RNSH and Co-Chair of the Research Group for the Chronic and Complex Medicine Network for Northern Sydney Lower Health District (NSLHD). He is the program Chair of the Nephrology and Transplantation Update Course for the Scientific Program and Education Committee (SPEC), ANZSN, and recently becomes a member of the Asia Pacific Society of Nephrology (ASPN) CME Committee and invited to be the Program Co-chair for the Nephrology Biennial Review Course, for the WCN in Melbourne, 2019.

He was elected as the Deputy Chair of the Oceania South East Asia Regional Board, International Society of Nephrology (ISN). He is a member of the KHA-CARI guideline writing group for “Infection control for haemodialysis unit” and the Working Group for Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diabetic Nephropathy for the APCN focusing on lower and middle income countries. He is the Subject Theme Editor for Journal Nephrology.

Dr Adrian Liew is a Senior Consultant Nephrologist and Director of the The Kidney & Transplant Practice at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital in Singapore. Besides being an elected member of the Executive Committee and Council of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), his other responsibilities in ISN include being the  Chair of the ISN Oceania-Southeast Asia Regional Board and the ISN Renal Disaster Preparedness Working Group; and as a member of the ISN Dialysis Committee and ISN CME Committee.

He is also an elected Executive and Honorary Secretary of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) and a member of the Asia-Pacific Society of Nephrology (APSN) CME Committee. In addition, he is an appointed member of the working groups for the KDIGO Guideline on Glomerular Disease 2020 Update, KDIGO Guideline on Diabetes Management in Chronic Kidney Disease and ISPD Practice Recommendations on Prescribing High-Quality Goal-Directed Peritoneal Dialysis, while he chairs the working group for the APSN Guideline on Diabetic Kidney Disease 2020. For his contributions to the development of peritoneal dialysis internationally, Dr Liew was presented the John Maher award by ISPD in 2020.

Yusuke Suzuki is currently Professor of Department of Nephrology in Graduate School of Juntendo University and Professor of Department of Nephrology in Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo. His academic positions include Directors of Japanese Society of Nephrology (JSN), Councilor of Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, Japanese Society of Dialysis Therapy, Japanese Society of Hypertension, ISN council, Liaison officer in ISN sister renal center program for JSN/Vietnam, Chief Researcher of Special Research Group of IgA Nephropathy in Progressive Renal Diseases Research from Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Chief Researcher of biomarker project on IgA nephropathy from Research on Intractable Disease from Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development. His research mainly focused on the pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy. His studies were supported more than 70 scientific research grants. He has more than 160 peer reviewed English publications.

Fan Fan Hou, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine at the Southern Medical University and a Physician-in-Chief at the Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou, China. She is Director of the National Clinical Research Center for Kidney Disease, and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research.

Dr. Hou is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). She is currently Councilor of ISN, Chair of ISN North and East Asia Regional Boar, the Executive Committee member of KDIGO.

Dr. Hou had been the PI of several RCTs including ESBARI, ROAD, and CSPPT-CKD. Her basic research focuses on renal fibrosis and mechanisms underlying CKD progression. Dr. Hou has published hundreds of papers in peer-reviewed journals such as NEJM, JAMA, JASN, and KI. She was winner of the Young Investigator Award by APSN (1992) and the First Prize Medal for ISN Fellow (2001).

Dr. Manisha Sahay is the Professor and Head, Department of Nephrology at Osmania Medical College & General Hospital, Hyderabad, India.

She is Council Member, International Society of Nephrology and Chair, South Asia Regional Board. She is member of Sister Renal Centre Committee and had served on Young Nephrologist Committee. She is a member of American Nephrologists of Indian Origin committee. She has served as a mentor on the Mentorship Program of ISN.

She is Editor in Chief of Indian Journal of Transplantation and Vice President, Indian Society of Nephrology. She was awarded Fellowship of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation and Fellowship of Indian society of Nephrology. She was also awarded Fellowship Royal College of Physicians (FRCP, London).

She is Convenor of transplant coordinator program for Telangana which promotes organ donation. She was instrumental in initiation of Deceased donor program, CAPD and multiorgan donation in government sector in Telangana. She has a passion for teaching. She has delivered 300 guest lectures at international, national and zonal level. She is working on prevention and treatment strategies for CKD in community. She has 13 gold medals and 100 publications to her credit.

Present Designation: Professor of Medicine

Present Affiliations: Head of Nephrology and Transplant Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital

Major Achievements:
-She led the first successful renal transplantation program in Nepal 2008
-she has mentored many DM Nephrology trainees and residents she
-she led the committee for the revision and implementation of regulations of human organ transplant act and deceased organ donation act of Nepal.

Roles:
– Chair of Human organ coordination committee of Nepal
-Co -chair south Asia committee and council member of International society of Nephrology
-Council member of Asian society of transplantation
-Vice President of nephrology urology and transplant society of SAARC
-Secretary General of Nepal society of Nephrology
-Secretary General of Nepal transplantation society
(Awards)- awarded by the President of Nepal- “Janashewashree first “
(Publications)-Around 100 publications in national and international journals and a book chapter.

Professor Eric Rondeau, MD, PhD, presently Head of the Intensive Care Nephrology unit and renal transplantation since 2005 in Tenon Hospital, in Paris, France, is a member of the research laboratory INSERM Unit 1155. At Sorbonne Université in Paris, he is in charge of several courses for students and specialized nephrologists on Intensive Care Nephrology. He is the national coordinator of the international registry for atypical HUS.

His lab research activity is devoted to the search of invasive and non invasive biomarkers of kidney graft rejection or fibrosis. He is a member of the ISN council, chair of the Western Europe regional board of ISN and co-chair or the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group.

Field of research: glomerular diseases in children and adults, with particular focus on IgA nephropathy and IgA vasculitis, from the pathogenetical mechanisms to risk factors for progression and therapy. Founder and Coordinator of the Immunonephrology Working Group (IWG) ERA-EDTA (2009-2015).

Scientific Societies:
ISN Councillor, Deputy Chair of the ISN Western Europe
Secretary General European Society Paediatric Nephrology (ESPN) (2012- 2015)
Chairperson ERA-EDTA Administrative Office (2005- 2012)
Chairperson ERA-EDTA CME programme (2003-2009)
She received the 2016 ERA-EDTA Award for Outstanding Contributions to Nephrology.
Her activities in the ISN have been devoted to the Sister Renal Center program, the Awards Committee and in support to the Chair of the ISN Western Europe in developing projects for ISN members in this area