Joel D. Glickman, MD

Co-Activity Director
Professor of Clinical Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Philadelphia, PA

Joel D. Glickman, MD is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he is also Director of the Home Dialysis Programs (peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis). He attended medical school in Brooklyn, NY and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in the Bronx. He then moved to Philadelphia to complete a fellowship in nephrology at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His clinical and research interests focus on clinical outcomes and education in short daily hemodialysis, home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.

Dr. Glickman is the recipient of several teaching awards, including the Edward D. Viner Teaching Award at Pennsylvania Hospital and, most recently, a three-time recipient of the J. Russell Elkinton Faculty Teaching Award from the Renal-Electrolyte Division at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the International Society of Nephrology, American Society of Nephrology, National Kidney Foundation, and International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis. Nationally, he frequently lectures on chronic kidney disease, home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.

Anjali Saxena, MD, FASN

Co-Activity Director
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Dr. Anjali Bhatt Saxena, MD is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and Director of Peritoneal Dialysis at SCVMC in San Jose, California. Dr. Saxena completed her BS degree at Duke University and received her MD from Wake Forest University. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Stanford University and her Postdoctoral Nephrology Fellowship, also at Stanford University, in 2004; she is board certified in nephrology. Dr. Saxena has served as the Medical Director for an independent Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Clinic in San Jose, CA for the past 20 years, and oversees the direct care of over 75 PD patients.

After serving as a faculty member of the Home Dialysis University (HDU) since 2007, she became its Associate Program Director in 2024. She serves on the ASN Home Dialysis Steering Committee and is a founding member of the International Home Dialysis Consortium (ISN-ISPD). She has delivered numerous invited lectures at international meetings and has published scholarly work on PD in various peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Saxena is dedicated to the growth of PD worldwide; she is the Past-Treasurer for the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) and Past-President of the N. American Chapter of ISPD. She is an Educational Ambassador for the ISN, and with colleagues has supported the growth of PD in low income areas of Sri Lanka.

Shweta Bansal, MD, FASN

Professor of Medicine University of Texas Health at San Antonio - San Antonio, TX

After obtaining medical degree from SMS Medical College, Jaipur and Internal Medicine residency from New Delhi, India in 2001, Dr. Bansal went on to complete IM Residency and Nephrology Fellowship from the University of Colorado, Denver along with the certificate in Public Health Sciences. She joined the Division of Nephrology at UT Health San Antonio in 2010 and currently is a Professor of Medicine, Director of CTSA-Hub Liaison Team and Home Dialysis Program. Her vision and leadership led to a successful PD program at partnered University Hospital and she fervently promotes this underutilized modality to the patients and fellows locally and nationally via Home Dialysis University. She also serves as the member of ASN Home Dialysis Steering Committee, North American chapter of ISPD and Publication Committee of ISPD. For patient care, Dr. Bansal strongly believes that empowerment of patients through health education is the most important step to achieve the best outcomes. She was the recipient of the 2023 Presidential award in Clinical Excellence.

Dr. Bansal adores the pathophysiological role kidneys play in health and diseases and is passionate about teaching this role to the medical students, residents, fellows and colleagues. She has been highly recognized for her outstanding teaching abilities and has won several teaching awards. She co-founded the Annual Cardiorenal Connections CME meeting in 2015, which has gained an international reputation and will be having its 7^th annual meeting next year. In 2017, she was appointed the Program Director of Nephrology Fellowship, which she revamped by developing new curriculums, tracks and electives and after making it competitive handed it over to her mentee in 2021. Her clinical and research interests focus on the volume/sodium control in the management of hypertension, dialysis and cardiorenal patients. She has received extra-mural and institutional grants to support her health service and clinical research projects. She has over 80 peer reviewed publications and chapters in high-impact journals. Additionally, she serves as the associate editor for Journal Clinical Nephrology and Journal of Clinical and Translational Science and is an editorial board member for several nephrology and cardiology journals.

Joanne Bargman, MD FRCPC

Professor of Medicine University of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario Canada

Joanne Bargman is a staff nephrologist at the University Health Network and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She received her MD cum laude from the University of Toronto and pursued nephrology training at Stanford University. She has more than 1000 invited lectures internationally, on subjects as diverse as peritoneal dialysis, glomerulonephritis, and lupus. She is the Director of Peritoneal Dialysis program and co-director of the Combined Renal-Rheumatology Lupus Clinic for the University Health Network.

She won the “Silver Shovel”, given by the graduating medical class of the University of Toronto to the best lecturer in the undergraduate years. She has also won the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Teaching Award, given to the best teacher in the postgraduate program across all academic hospitals. In 2013 she was the recipient of the Donald Seldin Award for excellence in nephrology at the National Kidney Foundation (US). She was the 2015 Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Annual Dialysis Conference and the International Distinguished Medal at the Spring Clinical Meetings of the National Kidney Foundation in 2016. In 2018 she was the recipient of the Gabor Zellerman Award for Research and Excellence in Peritoneal Dialysis. In 2022 she won the Robert Narins award for excellence in teaching from the American Society of Nephrology. She is a former deputy editor of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Bargman is co-author of the chapter “Chronic Kidney Disease” in the 17^th to the upcoming 21^st edition of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine.

Thomas A. Golper, MD, FACP, FASN

Emeritus Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Thomas A. Golper, MD, FACP, FASN graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine and trained in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU). He has held academic appointments at OHSU, the University of Louisville School of Medicine, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, where he earned emeritus status in July 2023. He is currently Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) at the Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. He was an Honorary Consultant in Renal Medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital and Medical School in 1987-8. He has held positions on the Board of Directors of the Renal Physicians Association and American Association of Kidney Patients, served as the Peritoneal Dialysis Adequacy Work Group Chair for the first two versions of Kidney Dialysis Outcome Quality Initiative, and remains on the Work Group. He led the Network 9 Peritonitis and Catheter Survival Study and helped form and serve on the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) Ad Hoc Committee for Peritonitis for many iterations of its guidelines. He was active in the International Society of Blood Purification serving as Secretary for 6 years and hosting the 1991 meeting in Louisville. He was instrumental in the formation of the ISPD North American Research Consortium in Peritoneal Dialysis (NARC-PD). He is currently Dialysis Section Co-editor of Up to Date and Immediate Past President of the North American Chapter of ISPD. He just stepped down as the course director of Home Dialysis University. His interests remain in the field of dialysis and the administrative aspects of nephrology practice. He has published over 250 articles and chapters. He has current grants to study the Wearable Artificial Kidney and the role of arteriovenous fistulae in slowing the progression of chronic kidney disease.

Scott E. Liebman, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine University of Rochester School of Medicine - Rochester, NY

Scott Liebman, MD, MPH is Associate Professor of Medicine University at the University of Rochester School of Medicine where he has practiced since 2004. He earned his medical degree from the State University Health Science Center in Syracuse, NY, completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and a Nephrology Fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. He also received a Master of Public Health at the University of Rochester.

Dr. Liebman’s professional interests are in the fields of home dialysis and patient education. He is a member of the ISPD’s education committee and is also the Medical Director of the Freedom Center Home Dialysis Unit. Dr. Liebman also serves as the nephrology training program director at the University of Rochester and is passionate about trainee education.

Brent Miller, MD

Michael A. Kraus Professor of Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine - Indianapolis, IN

Dr. Miller is currently a faculty member at Indiana University and actively manages both peritoneal dialysis patients and home hemodialysis patients. He has been involved in numerous clinical trials of home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis including the Frequent Hemodialysis Network (FHN), the NxStage Medical Nocturnal Hemodialysis IDE trial, The Quanta Plus IDE trial, the home hemodialysis FREEDOM trial, Bio-PD and PDOPPS. He has also previously served as a consultant for home dialysis therapies for several companies including National Renal Alliance, Renal Advantage, Fresenius Kidney Care and NxStage Medical. Dr. Miller has been a faculty member for Home Dialysis University since 2009.

Jeffrey Perl, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine University of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario Canada

Dr. Jeffrey Perl is a staff nephrologist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He has received the Mid-Career Leadership Award from the American Society of Nephrology and the John Maher Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, along with several teaching and mentorship awards at both the University of Toronto and St. Michael’s Hospital.

Dr. Perl's primary research interests, clinical practice, and teaching focus on enhancing universal access to and improving clinical outcomes in home dialysis. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Peritoneal Dialysis International and recently co-chaired the KDIGO Home Dialysis Controversies Conference. He has delivered numerous invited lectures and authored multiple peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.

As the principal investigator for the International Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS), Dr. Perl also co-led the Optimizing the Prevention of Peritoneal Dialysis-Associated Peritonitis in the United States (OPPUS) study. He is a faculty member at Home Dialysis University and co-supervises the Home Dialysis Fellowship at St. Michael’s Hospital. Additionally, he co-chairs the American Society of Nephrology's home dialysis steering committee and previously chaired the ASN COVID-19 response team's home dialysis subcommittee.

Matthew B. Rivara, MD, FASN

Associate Professor of Medicine University of Washington - Seattle, WA

Matthew B. Rivara, MD, FASN is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, and the Chief Medical Officer for Northwest Kidney Centers in Seattle, WA. He earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a fellowship in Nephrology at the University of Washington. Dr. Rivara’s clinical and professional interests are in the care of patients undergoing dialysis with a specific focus on home dialysis therapies. His research interests include patient-reported outcomes and health-related quality of life in patients with end-stage renal disease, and the growing utilization of home dialysis therapies in the United States. He has served on the Steering Committees for multiple workgroups of the Kidney Health Initiative and the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI). He serves on the Council for the North American Chapter (NAC) of the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD), where he is also the co-chair of the ISPD NAC Education Committee. He is also a member of the ISPD Standards and Guideline Committee. He is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on a variety of topics in ESRD and home dialysis.

Rebecca Kurnik Seshasai, MD MSHP

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Philadelphia, PA

Rebecca Kurnik Seshasai, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is the Associate Director of the Home Dialysis Programs (peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis). She obtained her undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed Internal Medicine residency at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA. She moved to Philadelphia to complete a fellowship in Nephrology at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she also completed a Master in Health Policy degree. Her thesis for this degree was on the discontinuation of home hemodialysis. Her clinical and research interests focus on clinical outcomes in home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. She is a member of American Society of Nephrology, National Kidney Foundation, and International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis. She enjoys teaching and lecturing on home dialysis modalities.

Osama EL Shamy, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine George Washington University Hospital – Washington, DC

Osama El Shamy MD is an Assistant professor of medicine at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC. He completed his medical school training at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, residency in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia and completed both his nephrology fellowship fellowships at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. He also completed an additional year of fellowship at the same institution to in home dialysis (Home Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis).

Dr. El Shamy is the Medical Director at the DaVita Southeast dialysis unit in Washington DC, Associate Nephrology Fellowship Program Director and the director of the ESRD service at GW.

Prior to joining GW, he was an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, where he established a dialysis fellowship. He has assumed several leadership roles in educating peers and advancing home dialysis. As a well-published author and authority in the field of home dialysis, he has been invited to organize and present at national and international meetings.

Dr El Shamy is currently co-chair of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) Program Committee, both an author and reviewer for UpToDate’s peritoneal dialysis section, a hub committee member on the NKF Home Dialysis Project ECHO, member of the steering committee of the Home Hemodialysis Fellowship Training Program through Outset Medical, and former co-chair of the NKF Kidney Commute podcast. Other leadership teaching responsibilities include being a faculty member of Home Dialysis University and leading the ISPD North American Chapter journal club series.

He is the recipient of the Gold Humanism in Medicine award and is a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He has been involved in multiple national and international societies’ meetings, such as the ASN Home Dialysis Focus Group, the ASN post-acute kidney injury on dialysis (AKI-D) care workgroup, and the KDIGO controversies conference in home dialysis. He also served as an abstract review for both the International Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Nephrology meetings.

Lauren Stern, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine Boston University School of Medicine - Boston, MA

Dr. Lauren Stern, MD is an Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed a residency, chief residency, and fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She is the home dialysis director at the Boston University School of Medicine with over 60 home dialysis patients.

Dr. Stern also serves as the director of the renal pathophysiology course and associate director of the third-year internal medicine clerkship at the BUSM. Her research and clinical interests are in health disparities in home dialysis and paraproteinemia related kidney diseases.

Isaac Teitelbaum, MD FACP

Professor of Internal Medicine/Nephrology University of Colorado Hospital - Aurora, CO

Dr. Teitelbaum is Professor of Internal Medicine/Nephrology and Director of the Home Dialysis Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado. Dr. Teitelbaum has been an active clinical nephrologist for over 35 years. He oversees the care of 50 home dialysis patients in addition to maintaining a busy clinical and consultative practice.

Dr. Teitelbaum serves as a consultant to industry and has actively participated in numerous clinical trials and educational workshops. He has published or co-authored over 140 articles and/or book chapters and serves as a reviewer for numerous journals. He has been named as one of Denver’s Top Doctors by 5280 Magazine on numerous occasions. Dr. Teitelbaum is a past- President of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis.