ASN's Mission

To create a world without kidney diseases, the ASN Alliance for Kidney Health elevates care by educating and informing, driving breakthroughs and innovation, and advocating for policies that create transformative changes in kidney medicine throughout the world.

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About ASN

Manish M. Sood, MD, MS, FASN

ASN Biography
Dr. Sood is a Nephrologist at the Ottawa Hospital, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Ottawa, Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and Dept of Medicine Research Chair in Physician Health and Wellness. Dr Sood has authored over 300 research papers, supervised over 40 research trainees, and has given over 100 invited lectures focusing on the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease, pharmaco-epidemiology, and physician health using big data. He was the inaugural Jindal Research Chair for the Prevention of Kidney Disease (2013-2023) and his research is funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Physician Services Incorporated and the Kidney Foundation of Canada. He has served on the Canadian Society of Nephrology Executive Committee as Secretary Treasurer from 2019-2024 and founded and served as the Deputy Editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Kidney Disease and Health (official journal of the CSN) from 2015-2024.

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Dr. Sood is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa with cross appointment at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Deputy Editor- in- Chief and founder of the Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, and holds the Jindal Research Chair for the Prevention of Kidney Disease. He completed his undergraduate (BSc) at Carleton and Lancaster University (UK) followed by medical school, internal medicine and nephrology residency training at the University of Toronto. He began his career as a clinical nephrologist at the St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, gradually developing an interest in research and clinical epidemiology and in 2013 became a clinician scientist. He completed his Masters in Science in Epidemiology at the University of Ottawa. More recently, he became the scientific director of the Canadian Centre for Advanced Analytics in Dialysis (CAN-AD), a Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns (DOPPS) country investigator, and a member of the Canadian Organ Replacement Registry (CORR) Board of Directors.