News

The ISN is pleased to welcome several incoming committee and working group chairs, deputy chairs and members to their new roles, which took effect at WCN’25 – we look forward to their contributions. 

Please join us in congratulating these new leaders and members and thanking their predecessors for their valuable service.  

ISN-ACT (Advancing Clinical Trials) Committee 

New members:  

• Jonathan Barratt (United Kingdom) 

• Laura Dember (United States) 

ISN Advocacy Working Group  

Chair: Ifeoma Ulasi (Nigeria) 

Deputy Chair: Muhammad Iqbal Abdul Hafidz (Malaysia) 

New members: 

• Lilia Cervantes (United States)  

• Smeetha Sina (UK)  

• Urmila Anandh (India)  

ISN Clinical Research Program Committee 

Chair: Dorothea Nitsch (United Kingdom) 

Deputy Chair: Rahul Chanchlani (Canada) 

New members: 

• Workagegnehu Hailu Bilchut (Ethiopia) 

• Nivedita Kamath (India) 

• Hiroshi Nishi (Japan) 

ISN Continuing Medical Education Committee 

New members: 

• Dina Abdellatif (Egypt) 

• Kamal Sud (Australia) 

• Sangeetha Geminiganesan (India) 

ISN Core Programs Committee 

• Chair: Robert Walker (New Zealand) 

• Deputy Chair: Marcelo Orias (Argentina) 

ISN Dialysis Working Group 

Chair: Sourabh Sharma (India) 

Deputy Chair: Rasha Darwish (Egypt) 

New members:  

• Fernanda Coelho (Brazil) 

• Talerngsak Kanjanabuch (Thailand) 

• Rupesh Raina (USA) 

ISN Education Working Group 

Chair: Mitchell Rosner (United States) 

Deputy Chair: Sola Aoun Bahous (Lebanon) 

New members:  

• Lúcio Requião-Moura (Brazil)  

• Sabine Karam (USA)  

• Winston Fung (Hong Kong) 

• Sara Davison (Canada)  

ISNEducation SoMe (Social Media Team) 

Chair: Manjusha Yadla (India) 

Deputy Chair: Dilushi Wijayaratne (Sri Lanka) 

New members:  

• Arunkumar Subbiah (India) 

• Gabriela Amador Reyes (Mexico) 

• Enzo Vera Chavez (Bolivia) 

• Kajaree Giri (India) 

• Nihal Bashir (UAE) 

• Priyadarshini John (India) 

• Raphael Palma (Brazil) 

• Rowan Zyada (Egypt) 

• Sandhya Suresh (India) 

• Stephanie Torres Rodriguez (USA) 

ISN Educational Ambassadors Program Committee 

 New members:  

• Marina Wainstein (Argentina) 

• Andrei Capitanescu (Romania) 

ISN Interventional Nephrology Working Group 

Chair: Mayuri Trivedi (India) 

Deputy Chair: Bernardo Moguel (Mexico) 

New members: 

• Vineet Behera (India) 

• Saeed Ahmed (United Kingdom) 

• Juan Santacruz (Ecuador) 

ISN Fellowship Committee 

Chair: Rolando Claure-Del Granado (Bolivia) 

Deputy Chair: Arif Khwaja (United Kingdom) 

New members: 

• Indira Agarwal (India) 

• Muzamil Hassan (Nigeria) 

iNET-CKD (International Network of Chronic Kidney Disease Cohort Studies) Committee 

Chair: Roberto Pecoits-Filho (United States) 

Deputy Chair: Natalia Alencar de Pinho (France) 

New members:  

• Alejandro Ferreiro-Fuentes (Uruguay) 

• Viviane Calice da Silva (Brazil) 

• Manisha Sahay (India) 

ISN Renal Disaster Preparedness Working Group  

New members:  

• Ionut Nistor (Romania) 

• Sabine Karam (USA) 

• Marina Wainstein (Argentina) 

• Christopher Atwater (USA) 

• Kyung Don Yoo (Republic of Korea) 

• Ali Düzova (Turkey)  

• Dirceu Reis Da Silva (Brazil) 

• Sonia Guillouet (France) 

ISN Renal Pathology Working Group

Chair: Surya V. Seshan (USA) 

Deputy Chair: Ahmed Kalebi (Kenya) 

New members:  

• Pouneh Dokouhaki (Canada) 

• Fred Maate (Zambia) 

• Manoj Jain (India) 

ISN Research Working Group  

Chair: Chi-yuan Hsu (United States) 

Deputy Chair: Maarten Taal (United Kingdom) 

ISN Sister Renal Centers Program Committee
New members: 

• Surasak Kantachuvesiri (Thailand) 

• Mohamed Abdalbary (Egypt) 

• Tasnuva Sarah Kashem (Bangladesh) 

• Gavin Dreyer (United Kingdom) 

ISN Transplantation Working Group (Inaugural Working Group) 

Chair: Mohamed Salah (Egypt) 

 New members: 

• Elmi Muller (South Africa) 

• Lionel Rostaing (France) 

• Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos (Brazil) 

• Hector Madariaga (USA) 

• Curie Anh (South Korea) 

• Dominique Martin (Australia) 

• Robert Freercks (South Africa), ex officio member 

World Kidney Day Joint Steering Committee 

ISN Co-chair: Li-Li Hsiao (United States)  

ISN Deputy Chair: Ricardo Correa-Rotter (Mexico) 

New member: 

• Natarajan Gopalakrishnan (India) 

Young Nephrologists Committee  

Chair: Bianca Davidson (South Africa) 

Deputy Chair: Kornchanok Vareesangthip  (Thailand) 

New members:  

• Alejandro García Rivera (Mexico) 

• Ana Flavia Moura (Brazil) 

• Nihal Bashir (United Arab Emirates) 

• Tarsila Emmanuel (Tanzania)