Course Directors & Faculty
March 8-12, 2027 | Live Online
Course Directors
Martin Pollak, MD
COURSE DIRECTOR
Professor of Medicine — Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Nephrology — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Bradley M. Denker, MD
COURSE DIRECTOR
Associate Professor of Medicine — Harvard Medical School
Clinical Chief, Renal Division — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Chief, Division of Nephrology; Associate Chief of Medical Specialties — Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Melanie P. Hoenig, MD
COURSE DIRECTOR
Associate Professor of Medicine; Course Director, Integrated Human Pathophysiology III — Harvard Medical School
Staff Physician — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jeffrey H. William, MD
COURSE DIRECTOR
Assistant Professor of Medicine — Harvard Medical School
Chief, Tullis Firm, Internal Medicine Residency; Associate Director, Nephrology Fellowship Training Program — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Faculty
Amtul Aala, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Gerald B. Appel, MD
Professor of Medicine
Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Director, Glomerular Kidney Disease Center
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Laurence H. Beck, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Nephrology
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Nephrologist
Boston Medical Center
Daniel C. Brennan, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Medical Director, The Comprehensive Transplant Center
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Robert S. Brown, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Associate Chief for Academic Affairs, Nephrology Division
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Bhavna Chopra, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Jennifer Cluett, MD, FAHA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Gary C. Curhan, MD, ScD
Senior Lecturer (part-time)
Harvard Medical School
Physician
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Neera K. Dahl, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Leigh-Anne Dale, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
John Danziger, MD, MPhil
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sara W. Dong, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Michael Emmett, MD
Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine
Texas A&M College of Medicine
Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Chair Emeritus, Department of Internal Medicine
Baylor University Medical Center
Amy R. Evenson, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Attending Surgeon, Anthony P. Monaco Transplant Service
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Clerkship Director, BIDMC/HMS Core Surgery Clerkship
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Ronald J. Falk, MD
Nan and Hugh Cullman Eminent Professor of Medicine
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Zachary Fricker, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Medical Director of Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
David J. Friedman, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Samantha L. Gelfand, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Ali Gharavi, MD
Professor of Medicine
Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Chair, Department of Medicine
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Joel M. Henderson, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Director of Kidney Pathology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
S. Ananth Karumanchi, MD
Professor of Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Medallion Chair in Vascular Biology
Cedars-Sinai
Philip Kemp, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jessica Kendrick, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Stewart H. Lecker, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director, Nephrology Fellowship Training Program
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Kavita Mistry, MD, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Attending Physician
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Shimontini Mitra, MD
Clinical Instructor
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Alexander Morales, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Samar Nasser, MD
Lecturer on Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Atrius Health
Shanmugha Vigneshwar Padmanabhan, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
General and Interventional Nephrologist
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Paul M. Palevsky, MD
Professor of Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Clinical & Translational Science
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Chief, Kidney Medicine Section
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Lucille Parker Gregg, MD, MSCS
Associate Professor, Section of Nephrology
Baylor College of Medicine
Deputy Associate Chief of Staff for Clinical Research
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Martha Pavlakis, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Program Director, Solid Organ Transplantation
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Aditya S. Pawar, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Ali Poyan Mehr, MD
Lecturer on Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Regional Director, Glomerular Disease Program
Kaiser Permanente Northern California
Founding President
GlomCon Foundation
Jai Radhakrishnan, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Clinical Director, Nephrology
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Helmut G. Rennke, MD
Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Pathologist; Renal Pathology Service
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD
Harold and Ellen Danser Associate Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Sylvia E. Rosas, MD, MSCE
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director, Joslin Diabetes Kidney Program
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Adam M. Segal, MD, FASN
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Chair, Division of Nephrology
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
Scott A. Shainker, DO, MS
Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology
Harvard Medical School
Director, New England Center for Placental Disorders
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Richard H. Sterns, MD
Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester General Hospital
Esilida Sula Karreci, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
J. Kevin Tucker, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Anand Vaidya, MD, MMSc
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director
Center for Adrenal Disorders
Kambiz Zandi-Nejad, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Part-Time
Harvard Medical School
Attending Physician
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Nephrologist
Atrius Health
Mark L. Zeidel, MD
Herrman Ludwig Blumgart Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chair and Physician-in-Chief, Department of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center