The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) is proud to introduce new chairs, deputy chairs, and members across its committees and working groups, with appointments effective from WCN’25. We extend our heartfelt thanks to outgoing leaders for their dedicated service and warmly welcome incoming members as they begin their new roles.
ISN-ACT (Advancing Clinical Trials) Committee
New Members: Jonathan Barratt (UK), Laura Dember (USA)
ISN Advocacy Working Group
Chair: Ifeoma Ulasi (Nigeria)
Deputy: Muhammad Iqbal Abdul Hafidz (Malaysia)
New Members: Lilia Cervantes (USA), Smeetha Sina (UK), Urmila Anandh (India)
Clinical Research Program Committee
Chair: Dorothea Nitsch (UK)
Deputy: Rahul Chanchlani (Canada)
New Members: Workagegnehu Bilchut (Ethiopia), Nivedita Kamath (India), Hiroshi Nishi (Japan)
Continuing Medical Education Committee
New Members: Dina Abdellatif (Egypt), Kamal Sud (Australia), Sangeetha Geminiganesan (India)
Core Programs Committee
Chair: Robert Walker (New Zealand)
Deputy: Marcelo Orias (Argentina)
Dialysis Working Group
Chair: Sourabh Sharma (India)
Deputy: Rasha Darwish (Egypt)
New Members: Fernanda Coelho (Brazil), Talerngsak Kanjanabuch (Thailand), Rupesh Raina (USA)
Education Working Group
Chair: Mitchell Rosner (USA)
Deputy: Sola Aoun Bahous (Lebanon)
New Members: Lúcio Requião-Moura (Brazil), Sabine Karam (USA), Winston Fung (Hong Kong), Sara Davison (Canada)
ISNEducation SoMe Team
Chair: Manjusha Yadla (India)
Deputy: 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)
Educational Ambassadors Program
New Members: Marina Wainstein (Argentina), Andrei Capitanescu (Romania)
Interventional Nephrology Working Group
Chair: Mayuri Trivedi (India)
Deputy: Bernardo Moguel (Mexico)
New Members: Vineet Behera (India), Saeed Ahmed (UK), Juan Santacruz (Ecuador)
Fellowship Committee
Chair: Rolando Claure-Del Granado (Bolivia)
Deputy: Arif Khwaja (UK)
New Members: Indira Agarwal (India), Muzamil Hassan (Nigeria)
iNET-CKD Committee
Chair: Roberto Pecoits-Filho (USA)
Deputy: Natalia Alencar de Pinho (France)
New Members: Alejandro Ferreiro-Fuentes (Uruguay), Viviane Calice da Silva (Brazil), Manisha Sahay (India)
Renal Disaster Preparedness Working Group
New Members: Ionut Nistor (Romania), Sabine Karam (USA), Marina Wainstein (Argentina), Christopher Atwater (USA), Kyung Don Yoo (South Korea), Ali Düzova (Turkey), Dirceu Reis Da Silva (Brazil), Sonia Guillouet (France)
Renal Pathology Working Group
Chair: Surya V. Seshan (USA)
Deputy: Ahmed Kalebi (Kenya)
New Members: Pouneh Dokouhaki (Canada), Fred Maate (Zambia), Manoj Jain (India)
Research Working Group
Chair: Chi-yuan Hsu (USA)
Deputy: Maarten Taal (UK)
Sister Renal Centers Program
New Members: Surasak Kantachuvesiri (Thailand), Mohamed Abdalbary (Egypt), Tasnuva Sarah Kashem (Bangladesh), Gavin Dreyer (UK)
Transplantation Working Group (Inaugural)
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)
Ex officio: Robert Freercks (South Africa)
World Kidney Day Joint Steering Committee
ISN Co-chair: Li-Li Hsiao (USA)
Deputy: Ricardo Correa-Rotter (Mexico)
New Member: Natarajan Gopalakrishnan (India)
Young Nephrologists Committee
Chair: Bianca Davidson (South Africa)
Deputy: Kornchanok Vareesangthip (Thailand)
New Members: Alejandro García Rivera (Mexico), Ana Flavia Moura (Brazil), Nihal Bashir (UAE), Tarsila Emmanuel (Tanzania)