WCN Working Groups
Congress Chair
Vivekanand Jha (India) – ISN President
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ISN President-Vivekanand Jha
President of the host society (EMAN)/LOWG Chair-Mona Alrukhaimi
SPWG Chair-Marcello Tonelli
ISN Treasurer-Stuart Shankland
ISN President Elect-Agnes Fogo
ISN Executive Director-Charu Malik
ISN Meetings & Events Director-Adline Lewuillon
Scientific Program Working Group chairs
Marcello Tonelli (Canada) – Chair
Brenda Hemmelgarn (Canada) – Deputy Chair
Ikechi Okpechi South (Africa) – Deputy Chair
Claire Sharpe (UK) Deputy – Deputy Chair
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Acute kidney injury
Neesh Pannu (Canada) – Chair of Sub-theme
Deputy Chair of Sub-theme (USA) – Azra Bihorac
Rolando Claure-Del Granado (Bolivia)
Chronic kidney disease
Meg Jardine (Australia) – Chair of Sub-theme
David Wheeler (UK) – Deputy Chair of Sub-theme
Mark Cooper (Australia)
Olivier Devuyst (Switzerland)
Maria Eugenia Fernandes Canziani (Brazil)
Jurgen Floege (Germany)
Zhi-Hong Liu (China)
Magdalena Madero (Mexico)
Brad Rovin (USA)
Hong Zhang (China)
End stage kidney disease
Giovanni Strippoli (Italy) – Chair of Sub-theme
Angela Wang (Hong Kong) – Deputy Chair of Sub-theme
Mustafa Arici (Turkey)
Fergus Caskey (UK)
Laura Dember (USA)
Masafumi Fukagawa (Japan)
John Gill (Canada)
Jolanta Malyszko (Poland)
Suetonia Palmer (New Zealand)
Laura Sola (Uruguay)
Charles Swanepoel (South Africa)
Germaine Wong (Australia)
Ex officio members
Vivekanand Jha (India) – ISN President
Mona Alrukhaimi (United Arab Emirates) – LOWG Chair
Shira Strachova (Belgium) – ISN HQ Representative
Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Course
Vincente Torres (USA) - Chair
Dorien Peters (Netherlands) - Deputy Chair
Clinical Trials Course
Meg Jardine (Australia) - Chair
Hiddo Lambers Heerspink (Netherlands) - Deputy Chair
Kathy Tuttle (USA) - Deputy Chair
Complement Disorders and the Kidney Course
Matthew Pickering (UK) - Chair
Marina Noris (Italy) - Deputy Chair
Course in Clinical Epidemiology: Observational Studies in Nephrology
Chair Harold Feldman (USA) - Chair
Benedicte Stengel (France) - Co-Chair
Interventional Nephrology Course
Tushar Vachharajani (USA) - Chair
Yousef Abdul Rahim Boobes (United Arab Emirates) - Deputy Chair
Marie Richards (United Arab Emirates) - Deputy Chair
Nephrology Annual Review Course
Manisha Sahay (India) Chair - Chair
Nicola Wearne (South Africa) - Co-Chair
Nursing and Allied Health Professionals Symposium
Marie Richards (United Arab Emirates) - Chair
Khawla Al Suwaidi (United Arab Emirates) - Deputy Chair
Rare Genetic Kidney Diseases Course
Elena Levtchenko (Belgium) - Chair
Nine Knoers (Netherlands) - Deputy Chair
Renal Pathology Course
Ian Roberts (UK) - Chair
Surya Seshan (USA) - Co-Chair
Peritoneal Dialysis Course
Fred Finkelstein (USA) - Chair
Simon Davies (UK) - Co-Chair
Ali Abu-Alfa (Lebanon) - Co-Chair
Brett Cullis (South Africa) - Co-Chair
Abstract Selection Working group
Aminu Bello (Canada) - Chair
Mohamed Alseiari (United Arab Emirates) - Co-Chair
Lorraine Harper (UK) - Co-Chair
Local Organizing Working Group Chair
Mona Alrukhaimi (UAE/Dubai)
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Samra Abouchacra – Consultant Physician Nephrology Clinic-MENYNC(Dep)-Medical Affairs,Al Ain Hospital (UAE/Al-Ain)
Zubaida Al Ismaili – Consultant Physician,Medical Institute-Medical Affairs,Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (Abudhabi Health Service Company-SEHA)
Ali Al Obaidli – Group Chief Academic Affair Officer,Corporate Academic Affair,Consultant Nephrologist & Transplant Physician (Abudhabi Health Service Company-SEHA)
Issa Al Salmi (Oman)
Maitha Alahamad – Specialist Physician, Medical Institute-Medical Affairs,Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (Abudhabi Health Service Company-SEHA)
Harith Aljebory – Consultant Nephrologist,Al Qassimi Hospital Ministry of health and Prevention (UAE/Sharjah)
Khuloud Almutawa – Specialist Physician, Medical Institute-Medical Affairs,Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (Abudhabi Health Service Company-SEHA)
Mona Alrukhaimi – (UAE/Dubai)
Mohamed Alseiari – Consultant Nephrologist,Transplant Nephrologist,Chief Quality Officer, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (UAE/Abudhabi)
Iman Alshamsi – Specialist Physician, Medical Institute-Medical Affairs,Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (Abudhabi Health Service Company-SEHA)
Nizar Attallah – Consultant Physician Nephrology & Renal Transplantation,Medical Subspecialty Institute,Cleveland Clinic (Abudhabi UAE/Abudhabi)
Bassam Bernieh – Consultant Physician &Nephrologist,Clinical Professor of Medicine,UAE University,Al Ain (UAE/Al Ain)
Basset El Essawy – Professor of Internal medicine&Nephrology-Al Azhar University,Associate Dean prof RAKHSU (UAE/Ras Al Khaima)
Yasin Elshahat – Chief Medical Officer,Consultant Nephrologist,Burjeel Hospital (Abudhabi UAE/Abudhabi)
Mohammad Ali – Ghnaimat ISN Middle East Regional Board Chair (Jordan)
Mohamed Hassan – Chief of the Nephrology Division&Consultant Nephrologist,Vice President EMAN,Medical Institute-Medical Affairs, Sheikh Khalifa – Medical City (Abudhabi Health Service Company-SEHA)
Vivekanand Jha – ISN President (India)
Peter Kerr – Past WCN LOC Chair (Australia)
Amna Khalifa – Chief of Nephrology,Consultant Nephrologist ,Dubai Hospital (Dubai UAE/Dubai)
Hasan Khamas – Senior Consultant Nephrologist,Assistant Director for Medical Affairs,Fujairah Hospital (UAE/Fujairah)
Suad Sajwani – Consultant Nephrologist,Al Qassimi Hospital Ministry of health and Prevention (UAE/Sharjah)
Abdalkareem Saleh – Consultant Nephrologist,Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Deputy Chief Medical Officer,Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (Abudhabi Health Service Company-SEHA)
ISN
Charu Malik – ISN Executive Director (Belgium)
WCN regional ambassador
Khalid Abdulaziz Al Hassan – Saudi Society of Nephrology
Ali Abualfa – Lebanese Society of Nephrology & Hypertension
Torke Al Otaibi – Kuwait Nephrology Association
Qusay Jamal Al-Khayat – Iraqi Society of Nephrology
Mona Alrukhaimi – Emirates Medical Association Nephrology Society
Ali Alsahow – Kuwait Nephrology Association
Tarek ElBaz – Arab Society of Nephrology & Renal Transplantation
Mohammad Ali Ghnaimat – Jordan Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation (ISN Collective Member Society*)
Shahrzad Ossareh – Iranian Society of Nephrology (ISN Collective Member Society*)
Bassam Saeed – Syrian Society of Nephrology & Transplantation