Conference Schedule

April 2024 conference schedule:

Recent Visiting Speakers:

2020-2021

• Jordan Nestor, MD, Columbia University, “Operationalizing the return of genomic results”
• Vipul Chitalia, MD, Boston University School of Medicine,, “Universe of Uremic Toxicity”
• Sarah Huen, MD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, “Metabolism as Disease Tolerance:  Implications for Sepsis-associated AKI”
• Michal Melamed, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, “Metabolic Acidosis in Kidney Diseases:  When to Treat?
• Krisztian Stadler, Ph.D, “Mitochondrial substrate balance, nutrient overload and chronic kidney disease”
• Fangming Lin, MD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, “Renal stress response: a counteracting mechanism in the development of chronic kidney disease”
• Daria Ilatovskaya, MS, PhD, FAHA, Medical University of South Carolina, “The effects of ANP on mitochondrial bioenergetics in salt-sensitive hypertension” (DOM Research Seminar)
• Katherine Kelly, MD, MSc, Indiana University, “COVID19 & The Kidney”
• Eric Cohen, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, “Measurement of renal cortical fibrosis by CT scan”
• Dr. Rasha El-Rifai, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension

2019-2020

• Matthew Wilson, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University, “Engineering a novel cell therapy for sustained therapeutic protein delivery in vivo” (DOM Research Seminar)

• Youhua Liu, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, “Interstitial fibroblasts after kidney injury: Friends or foes?” (DOM Research Seminar)

• Marcus Bitzer, MD, University of Michigan, "The Increasing Complexity of MicroRNA Functions in the Kidney" (DOM Research Seminar)

• Rebecca J. Schmidt, DO, FACP, FASN, West Virginia University School of Medicine, "Billing and Payment for Kidney Health Care: Past, Present and Future Influences"
• Jonathan Winston, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, "Overview and Management of Hyperkalemia"
• Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, Rush University Medical Center, "Soluble urokinase receptor: risk factor and therapeutic target in kidney diseases"
• Alaa S. Awad, MD, PhD, University of Texas - San Antonio, "Arginase/Nitric Oxide Interaction in Diabetic Nephropathy"

2018-2019

• Alp Ikizler, MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, "Management of Patients with Advanced Kidney Disease: Successes, Failures and Future Targets"
• Ryuji Morizane, MD, PhD, Harvard Medicial School, "Kidney organoids for disease modeling and regenerative medicine" 
• Anjay Rastogi, MD, University of California - Los Angeles, "Advancing the management of ADPKD"
• Vivek Bhalla, MD, Stanford University Medical Center, "Diverse nephron cell type-specific adaptation to furosemide revealed by single cell analysis"
• Belinda Jim, MD, FACP, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, "Hypertension in pregnancy" 
• Bhasker Chandra Das, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College, Research seminar guest speaker
• Takashi Hato, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine, "Sepsis and Acute kidney injury"
• Madhav Menon, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, Renal Ground Rounds Guest Speaker, "Dichotomous roles of Shroom3 in Tubular cells and Podocytes are motif dependent"
• Rujun Gong, MD, PhD, Brown University School of Medicine, "Therapeutic targeting of glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta in kidney disease" 
• Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH, Columbia University, "Kidney Transplantation, Discards and the Challenges of Precision Medicine" 
• Leah J. Siskind, PhD, University of Louisville, "Understanding Mechanisms of Cisplatin-Induced Nephrotoxicity" (DOM Research Conference)
• Joseph Vassalotti, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, "Blood pressure control in CKD: Adapting guidelines to individualized care"
• Robert Bacallao, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine, "Mathematical models of cyst formation in ADPKD insights from computer based modeling" (DOM Research Seminar)
• Rajnish Mehrotra, MD, University of Washington, "Current State of Dialysis Therapies" (DOM Grand Rounds)
• George N. Coritsidis, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, "Renal Function in the Critically Ill" and "The Undocumented Immigrant and ESRD"

2017-2018

• Leslie Gewin, MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (DOM Research Conference)
• Eliyahu Khankin, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Renal Grand Rounds)
• John Richard Lee, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine (DOM Research Conference)
• Anupam Agarwal, MD, The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine (DOM grand rounds) 
• David Basile, PhD, Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Indiana University School of Medicine (DOM Research Conference) 
• Julie Paik, MD, MPH, Brigham and Women's Hospital (DOM Research Conference) 
• Jeffrey Kopp, MD, Chief, Kidney Diseases Branch, NIDDK/NIH, “Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis and the African American predilection for kidney disease” 
• Sanja Sever, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, "Multiple roles of dynamin-actin interactions in kidney"
• Jaime Uribarri, MD, Director of Peritoneal Dialysis Mount Sinai School of Medicine, "Advances in Peritoneal Dialysis"

2016-2017:

• Kumar Sharma, MD, University of California, San Diego, “Novel role of mitochondria in diabetic complications”
• Sumant Chugh, MD, Rush Medical College, “Transcriptional regulation in podocyte disease”
• Michael Ross, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, “Kidney Injury in HIV positive patients”
• Peter Heeger, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, "An expanded role for complement in transplant rejection"
• Kirk Campbell, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, “Novel mediators of pedocyte survival in glomerular disease progression”
• Ramon Bonegio, MD, Boston University, "Toll-like receptor pathways promote sterile inflammation in immune complex glomerulonephritis"

2015-2016:

• Ali Gharavi, MD, Columbia University, “Genetics of IgA Nephropathy”
• Raymond Townsend, MD, University of Pennsylvania, “HTN in the post-SPRINT Era”
• Stuart Shankland, MD, University of Washington, “Making Sense of Glomerular Diseases”
• David Goldfarb, MD, NYU, “Update on Nephrolithiasis”
• Vishal S. Vaidya, Ph.D. Brigham & Women’s Hospital, "Translational and Mechanistic Biomarkers of Kidney Disease"
• Roy Zent, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University, "The Glomerular Filtration Barrier"

2014-2015:

• Charles Jennette, MD, North Carolina @ Chapel Hill “Overview of Vasculitis: Historical Perspective, Clinical and Pathologic and Pathogenic concepts”
• Ananth Karumanchi, MD, Harvard Medical School, “Pathogenesis of Pre-eclampsia”
• John C. He, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai 
• Avi Ma’ayan PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai