Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, MD, PhD, FASN, President
Prabir Roy-Chaudhury MD, PhD, FASN, is the Drs. Ronald and Katherine Falk Eminent Professor and Co-Director of the University of North Carolina (UNC) Kidney Center. He is also a Staff Nephrologist at the Salisbury VA Medical Center.
After graduating from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India, he trained in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. In addition to being an active transplant nephrologist, Dr. Roy-Chaudhury’s main research interest is in uremic vascular biology (including both dialysis vascular access dysfunction and cardiovascular complications in kidney disease patients).
He has been the recipient of extensive NIH, VA, and industry research grant funding has published over 250 manuscripts and book chapters (h index = 63), and has delivered over 450 lectures (including multiple named and plenary presentations) across the globe. He has also received many national and international awards, including the ASDIN Lifetime Achievement Award and the KS Chugh Memorial Oration.
Dr. Roy-Chaudhury is currently the President of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), which is the largest professional kidney organization in the world with over 21,000 members in 141 countries across the globe. A Past President of the American Nephrologists of Indian Origin (ANIO), he has been actively involved in the public policy and administrative aspects of dialysis vascular access care and hemodialysis through leadership roles in multiple societies, such as ASN, ASDIN, and VASA. Dr. Roy-Chaudhury was also the founding ASN co-chair of the Kidney Health Initiative, a public-private partnership between ASN and the US FDA and is a regular member of the FDA’s Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee (CRDAC).