Dr. Brad H. Rovin, MD, FACP, FASN is Professor of Medicine and Pathology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is the Director of the Division of Nephrology, and had been the Director of the Fellowship Program in Nephrology at Ohio State for the last 6 years. He has recently been named Vice Chairman of Research for Internal Medicine. Dr. Rovin has been at Ohio State University for over 20 years, and has been recognized by Best Doctors® for his work in the area of glomerular diseases.

Dr. Rovin received his bachelor of science in chemical engineering from Northwestern University, followed by his doctor of medicine from the University Of Illinois College Of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, and a fellowship in nephrology at Washington University.

Dr. Sundaram Hariharan is the medical director of kidney and pancreas transplantation, and medical director of transplant nephrology at the Starzl transplant Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is a Professor of Medicine in the Renal-Electrolyte Division at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Hariharan has extensive clinical experience in managing kidney and pancreas transplant programs with excellent outcomes. He is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of transplant nephrology. His key interest ar ein the area of long-term kidney transplant survival, recurrent and de novo diseases after renal transplantation and BKV infection after renal transplantation. He has publsihed many land mark artciles and many of them have been cited over 50 times. He has also published articles on short-term endpoints and surrogate markers for long-term kidney transplant survival. His key artciles have resulted in designing clinical trials based on renal function as opposed to acute rejction as end point for renal transplant outcome. He is also an educator and has trained many nephrologist in the area of transplant medicine.

He is board ertified in internal medicine and nephrology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a member of professional and honorary societies including the American Society of Nephrology, American Society of Transplant Physicians, and the International Transplant Society.

Education:
Medical School: Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE
Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Residency: Internal Medicine, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Fellowship: Nephrology, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Professional Experience
Medicine Teacher

Stephen Textor was born in Colorado, grew up in Minnesota. He attended Stanford University as an undergraduate and the University of California as a Regents’ Scholar for his medical degree. He trained in internal medicine and was Chief Medical Resident at the Boston City Hospital, before pursuing nephrology and hypertension under the direction of Norman Levinsky and Aram Chobanian at Boston University.

His career path includes a Fogarty international research grant in Lausanne, Switzerland during the development of first angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, captopril, followed by an appointment to the research division of the Cleveland Clinic. Interests in the relationship between hypertension, cancer and transplantation expanded during a five-year tenure at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Los Angeles, before taking a position in the Hypertension Division at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, where he is now Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension.

His areas of professional interest have focused upon the relationships between blood pressure and the kidney, including renovascular hypertension. In recent years, he has developed the field of blood pressure assessment and its role in selecting living kidney donors.

Professional Experience
Medicine Teacher

Dr. John Lieske is Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Renal Function Laboratory in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He is currently Principal Investigator for the N.I.H-funded Mayo Clinic O’Brien Urology Research Center and Assistant Director for the Rare Kidney Stone Consortium. Dr. Lieske’s research interests include increased understanding of the pathogenesis of kidney stone disease, and evaluating new treatment strategies. As Medical Director of the Mayo Renal Function Laboratory, Dr. Lieske has also spearheaded translational studies regarding the precise methods to measure kidney function using established and newer candidate biomarkers (e.g., cystatin C, NGAL). His team has lead efforts to develop tandem mass spectrometry assays for urinary biomarkers in the lab. These efforts have produced a reference measurements procedure for urine albumin which is being used in a collaborative international study designed to standardize measurement of this key urinary analyte.

Professional Experience
Medicine Teacher

Education
Medical School: T.N. Medical College, University of Bombay, Mumbai, India
Graduate School: Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Seth G.S. Medical College, University of Bombay, Parel, Mumbai, India
Internship: B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital Hospital, Mumbai, India
Residencies
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Seth G.S. Medical College, University of Bombay, Parel, Mumbai, India
Clinical Pathology (Transfusion Medicine), University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Clinical Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Clinical Pathology (HLA Laboratory), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Fellowships
Research, Puget Sound Blood Center Division of Hematology/Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Transfusion Medicine, Puget Sound Blood Center, Seattle, Washington
Post-Doctorate Training
Transfusion Research Program Fellow, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Certifications
American Board of Pathology - Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine
American Board of Pathology - Clinical Pathology

Dr. Gandhi is Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. He is a consultant in the Division of Transfusion Medicine and currently directs the Blood donor center and also the Tissue typing laboratory. He is on multiple national blood banking and tissue typing committees. In addition he has multiple peer reviewed publications related to both blood banking and tissue typing. He has trained in India and the United States and is certified in clinical pathology, transfusion medicine and tissue typing.

Dr. Mikel Prieto is a Staff Consultant in the Division of Transplantation Surgery at Mayo Clinic and serves as the Surgical Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program. He is a native of Spain, where he graduated Medical School of the Basque Country in 1984. He went on to do his fellowship at the University of Minnesota, followed by a fellowship at Royal Liverpool Hospital. His residency was completed at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center. In 1999 Dr. Prieto joined Mayo Clinic as an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, and in 2001, he joined the Division of Transplantation Surgery as a staff consultant.
In addition to his appointment in the Transplant Center, he also serves as the Medical Director of International Practice Operations at Mayo Clinic. He works collaboratively with the International Department leaders in Rochester, MN along with members in Arizona and Florida to ensure an outstanding experience for destination international patients. He is also very involved with affiliated organizations and is the Chair of the Kidney and Pancreas Committee and Clinical Policy Board at LifeSource, Upper Midwest Organ Procurement Organization.

Professional Experience :
The over-arching goal my research is to understand the impact of nutrients and hormones on energy homeostasis, metabolic function, the metabolic syndrome and adipose tissue distribution. My expertise in nutrient regulation of metabolic disease resulted from my early career as a Nutritionist where I counseled and provided nutritional recommendations to patients with a variety of metabolic complications. Over the last 14 years, I have focused on understanding the metabolic pathways that are influenced by nutrients. I obtained my PhD in Nutrition from the University of Georgia where my training and research was focused in basic sciences by targeting the molecular and cellular pathways involved in metabolism. During my postdoctoral education at the University of Cincinnati, I obtained strong guidance in intermediary metabolism, and my research focused on the consequences of impaired metabolism to energy homeostasis. I mastered techniques to evaluate physiology in cells and whole animals. As an Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati, I applied this expertise in physiology where I established methods to interrogate novel aspects of nutrients and their impact on metabolism. New principles emerging from this work suggest that specific metabolic pathways are influenced by nutrients and hormones which influence the development of adipose tissue function and metabolism. In April, 2008 I joined the faculty at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where I have established my independent laboratory and recruited postdoctoral fellows who currently work with my lab’s four research technicians where we have continued to obtain funding and publish our findings with respect to how nutrients and hormones influence metabolism.

Education
Medical School: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Internship: Internal Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Residencies:
Internal Medicine: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Hospital São Lucas: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Fellowships:
Nephrology: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (2010 –to date)
Nephrology: Hospital São Lucas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Certification: Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

Professional Experience
Nephrology Fellow

Laurent Juillard, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, University Claude Bernard
Nephrologist, Hôpital Edouard Herriot
Lyon, France

1985:                 Baccalaureate Mathematics and Physics.
1985 – 1992:     Medical School, Claude Bernard-Lyon I University, Lyon, France, Pr Hélène Pellet
1992:                 Medical Doctor, Claude Bernard-Lyon I University, Lyon, France, Pr Hélène Pellet
1992 – 1996:     Nephrology Residency : Hospices Civils de Lyon. Lyon, France,
1993 - 1995:     Master Science Degree in Physiology (Pr Annat) and Clinical Pharmacology (Pr Boissel): Claude Bernard Lyon I University, Lyon, France,
1996 - 1997:      Research Master in Physiology : Paris VII University, Paris, France. « Molecular and cellular basis of normal and pathological renal functions ». Pr Friedlander
1997 – 1998:     Nephrology Residency (continued): Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France,.
1998:                 Doctor in Medicine: Claude Bernard Lyon I University, Lyon, France, Pr Hélène Pellet.
1998:                 Board Certified in Nephrology: Claude Bernard Lyon I University, Lyon, France, Pr Hélène Pellet.
1997 - 2000:      PhD program. Claude Bernard-Lyon I University, Lyon, France. “Renal blood flow measurement by positrons emission tomography”, Pr Mornex
1998 - 2001:      Nephrology Fellowship: Department of Nephrology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, Pr Laville.
2001 - 2003:      Research Fellowship: Department of Physiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA, Pr Romero.
2004-2005         University Degree : Extra Renal Depuration Methods, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, Pr Hannedouche
2007-2008         University Degree : Medical Pedagogy, University of Lyon, Lyon, Pr Llhorca.
2003 – 2010      Consultant, Department of Nephrology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, Pr Laville.

2010 – now       Professor of Nephrology, Head of the Department of Nephrology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, University of Lyon.
2011 – now       Carmen Inserm U1060, H Vidal, Group 5 « Cardioprotection », Pr Ovize.