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Kidney STARS Travel Support Recipients

2017 Recipients

  • Mohamed A. Abdelsalam, PhD
  • Wasan Abdulmahdi, MS, PhD
  • Rammah M. Abohtyra, Sr., PhD
  • Enrique E. Acosta-Oruna, MD
  • Krishna A. Agarwal, MD
  • Nayan Agarwal
  • Shikhar Aggarwal, PhD
  • Angie Lizet Aguilar, MD
  • Mariam L. Alam, MD
  • Patrick J. Albertus, MPH
  • Kyrstin Alexander, DO
  • Sadik A. Ali, MD
  • Heba Allam, MD
  • Ali Amar, MS
  • Larissa Rodrigues Neto Angeloco
  • Mohammad Walid Aref
  • Adam Arshad
  • Rukhsana Aslam, MD
  • Evans Ohenhen Asowata, PhD
  • Nannaphat Atsawaphidsawat, MD
  • Paris Barkan, MD
  • Victor Manuel Barrientos
  • Patricia Bartsch
  • Randi Bates, MS, APRN, NP, RN
  • Halei Benefield
  • Rishi Bhardwaj, PhD
  • Smiti Bhattacharya
  • Laura Binari, MD
  • Laurence Marie Black
  • Fabian Bock, MD
  • Patricia Bolanos-Palmieri
  • Josephine Bonnemaijer
  • Alexander Borrero-Arvelo, MD
  • Manon Bos
  • Corey Brennan
  • Laura Bywater, MBBS
  • Karla G. Carias martinez, MD
  • Jung Hee Chae
  • Denaly S. Chen
  • Raad B. Chowdhury, MD
  • Nadia M. Chu, PhD
  • Cree Clay
  • Richard Clint Collier, MD, MS
  • Stefano Coppola fasick, MD
  • Daniel Corbally
  • Zülfü Cem Cosgun
  • Jessica Cruz Whitley, MD
  • Manuela Curreri, MD
  • Leigh-Anne Dale
  • Mads Vammen Damgaard, MS
  • Elena L. Dent, MS, CDE, RD
  • Hardik Dineshbhai Desai, III, MBBS
  • Louis-Charles Desbiens
  • Salvatore DiBartolo, III
  • Michael E. Dietrich, MS
  • Sebastian Dittrich
  • Angelina Magreni Dixon, MD
  • Eryn E. Dixon
  • Katherine Michele Donaldson, MD
  • Andrew Donati, MD
  • John William Elliott, DO
  • Mohammad Ali Faraz
  • Wouter J.c. Feitz, MD
  • Clara Fischman
  • Jackeline B. Flores, MD
  • Maurice B. Fluitt, PhD
  • Peter S. Fong
  • Elizabeth Fox, MD
  • Yoshio Funahashi, DrMed
  • Anna R. Gaddy
  • Pablo Garcia, MD
  • Maryn Gardner, MD
  • Mengyuan Ge, MS
  • Anindya Ghosh, PhD
  • Joseph A. Giovinazzo, PhD
  • Chudamani Giri, MBBS
  • Michael L. Granda, MD
  • Sander Groen in 't Woud, MD
  • Emily Groopman
  • Chloe E. Gumpert
  • Jia Guo, MD, PhD
  • Shefali Gupta, MD
  • Robert Morse Hayden
  • Xiaochen He, PhD
  • Robert Cameron Herman, MD
  • Diana Rosa Hernandez, PhD
  • Enni-Maria Hietavala, MS
  • Rachel Hilburg, MD
  • Judy Hindi, MD
  • Charlotte Anna Hoogstraten, MS
  • Jiun-Ruey Hu, MD, MPH
  • Hannah Hugo
  • Ryan Humphries, MD
  • Irma Husain, MD, MBBS
  • Ali Hussain, MD
  • Brooke M. Huuskes, PhD
  • Osamuyi Idubor
  • Carina Iskander
  • Aditya Jain, MD, MS
  • Thijs Thomas Jansz, MD
  • Jin hee Jeong, PhD
  • Priyanka Jethwani, MBBS
  • Marianinha Joanes, MD
  • Soma Jobbagy
  • Kartik Kalra, MD
  • Sam Kant, MD
  • Malavika Kapuria, MD
  • Stephanie Perez Kerkvliet
  • Nagisa Koda
  • Sybille Köhler, PhD
  • John Olumide Kolawole, MD
  • Jayasree Krishnan, MD, MBBS
  • Derian Lai, MD
  • Linda-Marie Ustaris Lavenburg, DO
  • Hind Harrak Lazrak, PhD
  • David Y. Li, MD
  • Gary Liu
  • Robert Lorch, MD
  • Minglei Lu, MD, PhD
  • John Travis Ludwig, MD
  • Hannah Lea Luz
  • Rhyan Maditz, DO
  • Cassedy Mahrer, DO
  • Nicole C. Mangold, MS
  • William P. Martin, MBChB, MS
  • Louizza Maria Martinez
  • Caroline L. Matchett
  • Meredith McAdams, MD
  • Katelyn Mckenzie
  • Neel Mehta, MS
  • Kyle Merrill, MD
  • Abheepsa Mishra, PhD
  • Tamandra Morgan
  • Anjana Murali
  • Dermot Murphy, MD
  • Matthew J. Murtha
  • Javeria Naveed, MD
  • Christopher Neagra, DO
  • Anthony Paul Nicolaysen
  • Pitchaphon Nissaisorakarn, MD
  • Stellor Nlandu khodo, PhD
  • Sayna Norouzi, MD
  • Oisin O Corragain, MD
  • Catherine I. Obadina, MBBS, MPH
  • Ivie Oghogho Okundaye, MD
  • Judy Oranika
  • Victor M. Ortiz-Soriano, MD
  • Caroline Osborne, MD
  • Yagya Pandey
  • Alisha Smith Parker, DO, MS
  • Bhavik P. Patel
  • Dipal Patel, MD, PhD
  • Yonatan A. Peleg, MD
  • Brent J. Portz, DO
  • Nabin Poudel, PhD
  • Alexander J. Prokopienko, MD, PharmD, RPh
  • Jiahe Qiu, MS
  • Jie Qu, MD
  • Arundati Rao, MD
  • Kaitlyn Reasoner
  • Amit Reddy, MBBS
  • Bethany Roehm, MD, MS
  • Raphael Rosen, MD
  • Soroush Rouhani
  • Vikram Sabapathy, PhD
  • Sherif Saleh, MS
  • Antoine Saliba, MD
  • Alinda Madhab Sarma, MD
  • Johanna Magdalena M. Schmidt
  • Christina Barbara Schroeter
  • Mai Sedki, MD
  • Meghna Shah, MD
  • Neha Sharma, MD
  • Ho Sik Shin, MD, PhD
  • Katelyn Smelser, MD
  • Tyler Soncrant
  • Benjamin L. Spector, MD
  • Bryanne N. Standifer
  • Elixabeth Laskurain Sullivan, MD
  • Kurtis John Swanson, MD
  • Sindhura Talluri, MBBS
  • Nhi Tan, MD
  • Tharshika Thangarasa
  • Charat Thongprayoon, MD
  • Supisara Tintara
  • Maria Clarissa Tio, MD
  • Courtney Tuegel, MD
  • Stacey Tuey
  • Benito Valdepenas, III, PharmD
  • Nina A. Van de Lest
  • Marco van Londen, MD
  • Matthew Van Norman, DO
  • Sean Verma, MD
  • Karthikeyan Viswanathan, DO
  • Savannah Vogel
  • Sylvia Kathrin Voreck
  • Kimmy Thien Vuong, MD, MPH
  • Laura E. Walawender, MD
  • Brian M. Waldman
  • Bangchen Wang
  • Diping Wang, MD, PhD
  • Shaoxun Wang, MS
  • Jasmine T. Washington, MD
  • Erena Weathers
  • Racquel J. Wells, MD
  • Yumeng Wen, MD
  • Eliane Wenstedt, MD
  • Maria Wester Trejo
  • Karn Wijarnpreecha, MD
  • Anna Marie Williams, MS
  • Vanessa R. Williams
  • Zenus Wilson, MD
  • Janewit Wongboonsin, MD
  • Chongxiang Xiong, MD, PhD
  • Timothy E. Yen, MD
  • Jia Yi, MD
  • Amy Q. Zhang
  • Chao Zhang, MD, MS
  • William R. Zhang
  • Xixi Zhao, MD

2016 Recipients

  • Jana-Christin Abt
  • Ayrenne Adams, MD, MPH
  • J.D. Adams
  • Adedamola M. Adeboye, MBBS
  • Monica Adedeji, MPH
  • Krishna A. Agarwal, MD
  • Nayan Agarwal
  • Rajiv Ahlawat, II, PhD, RPh, MPH
  • Lucas Ferreira Almeida, Sr., MS
  • Ahmed Alsaei, MD
  • Saeed Alshahrani
  • Jacob B. Anderson
  • Stacy D. Arrington, MS
  • Jennifer Arroyo
  • Evans Ohenhen Asowata, PhD
  • Emmanuel I. Bahamonde, MD
  • Maria Angeles Baker, PhD, MBA
  • Randi Bates, MS, APRN, NP, RN
  • Kelly H. Beers, DO
  • Ashley R. Bellin
  • Halei Benefield
  • Sagar Bhayana, PhD
  • Matthew F. Blum
  • Shane A. Bobart, MD
  • Manon Bos
  • Brian Charles Boursiquot
  • Sonia Brigitte Boyer, MD
  • Matthew Clarence Breeggemann, MD
  • Emma P. Bueno, MD
  • Megan Elizabeth Camerino, MD
  • Heather Carrel, DO
  • Jessamyn Carter, MD
  • Enchi K. Chang
  • Efren Alejandro Chavez Morales, MD
  • Chung-Jiah Justin Chen
  • Kuo-Kai Chin
  • Raad B. Chowdhury, MD
  • Camilo Cortesi, MD
  • Aaron P. Coulon
  • Brian A. Czaya
  • Dorothy Daniel
  • Matthew Day, MD
  • Indhira De la Cruz Alcantara, MD
  • Hardik Dineshbhai Desai, III, MBBS
  • Michelle Didero
  • Wen Ding, PhD
  • Iwona Dziewa, DO
  • Nissreen Elfadawy, MD, FASN
  • Theresa Ermer
  • Nonso A. Ezema, MD
  • Mohammad Kazem Fallahzadeh, MD
  • Kristen Favel, MD
  • Roseanne Ferreira de Freitas Euzebio
  • Simone Fertel
  • Peter S. Fong
  • Alissa Frame
  • Pablo Garcia, MD
  • Tessa Gerrits
  • Anindya Ghosh, PhD
  • Michael Reed Goetsch
  • Kevin D. Hageman, DO
  • Kathryn E. Haley, MS
  • Blake Hatfield, MD
  • Nicholas B. Helmstetter, MS
  • Gordon Hildick-Smith, MD
  • Austin Hu, MD
  • Gaizun Hu, MS
  • Brooke M. Huuskes, PhD
  • Osamuyi Idubor
  • Kyle Jansson, MD, PhD
  • Thijs Thomas Jansz, MD
  • Hans Jensen
  • Meghan A. Jobson, MD, PhD
  • Jeanne Kamal, MD
  • Fareed Kamar, MD
  • Thierry Joubert Kamdem Kamga, MD
  • Sam Kant, MD
  • Keith H. Keller, MS
  • Jeffrey Kepes, MD
  • Ladan Khodaparast, PhD
  • Laleh Khodaparast, PhD
  • Alexander Louis Kolb
  • Elizabeth Kotzen, MD
  • Larissa Kruger gomes, MD
  • Alexander Kuczkowski, MD
  • Matthew Kurian
  • Periklis Panos Kyriazis, MD
  • Verronika K. Laguerre, MS
  • Nichole K. Landry
  • Jennifer A. Lawson
  • Felice K y Leung
  • Jeremie M. Lever
  • Min-Chun Liao, PhD
  • Patricia Liu, MD
  • Sadichhya Lohani, MD
  • Alwin H. Lopez, MD
  • Isis V. Lopez
  • Anika Lucas, MD
  • Yuliya Lytvyn
  • Oyunbileg Magvanjav
  • Anum Malik, MD
  • Amanda N. Marra, PhD
  • Kelly McMahon
  • Neel Mehta, MS
  • Mariline Menager, MD
  • Isidor Minovic, PharmD
  • Scarlett Murphy
  • Evan J. Myers
  • Henrique R. Nakano, Sr.
  • Elizabeth D Nguyen, MD, PhD
  • Anthony Paul Nicolaysen
  • Eoghainín O hAinmhire, PhD
  • Carlee Oakley
  • Serena Michellle Okoronkwo, MD
  • Jessica Ong
  • Ana Claudia Onuchic-Whitford, MD
  • Elizabeth Ortiz
  • Simon DG Parlow
  • Felipe Pascoal, Sr.
  • Niralee Patel, MD
  • Jonathan H. Pelletier, MD
  • Siwadon Pitukweerakul, MD
  • Louis-Bassett Porter
  • Payam Pourhassani, DO
  • Anthony Provenzano, MD
  • Mahdieh Rahmatollahi
  • Kamal Ranabhat, MPH
  • Prasanth Ravipati, MD
  • Yuvaram Nellore Vilambi Reddy, MBBS
  • Sharon Reuben, MD
  • Huzaifah Salat, MD
  • Mahdi Salih, MD
  • Hamed Samandari, PhD
  • Margreet F. Sanders, MD
  • Anawin Sanguankeo, MD, MPH
  • Leonardo C. Saraiva, Sr.
  • Keith Louis Saum
  • Heidi Saxton
  • David Schapiro
  • Johanna Magdalena M. Schmidt
  • Emma Rebecca Segal
  • Lokesh N. Shah, MD
  • Tarak Shah, MD
  • Cierra Sharp, MS
  • Luciane M. Silva
  • Ruchi Singhal, RPh, MPH
  • Sonali Sinha, PhD
  • Cheng 'Jack' Song, PhD
  • Shen Song, MD
  • Marciana V. Sousa
  • Elizabeth Spiwak, MD
  • Suzanne P. Stam
  • Bryanne N. Standifer
  • Maria T. Story, MD
  • Nivetha Subramanian
  • Elixabeth Laskurain Sullivan, MD
  • Sindhura Talluri, MBBS
  • Nhi Tan, MD
  • Maria Clarissa Tio, MD
  • Lennart Tonneijck, MD
  • Asaad Traina, MS
  • Courtney Tuegel, MD
  • Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, MD, MBA
  • Mandy E. Turner
  • Sikarin Upala, MD
  • Emma Van Daalen
  • Sean Verma, MD
  • Kim T. Vuong
  • Xuexiang Wang, MD, PhD
  • Daniel Joseph Watford, MD, MPH
  • Elijah Weber
  • Russell S. Whelan, MD, PhD
  • Alexandra Wick
  • Kioa L. Wijnsma, MD
  • Vanessa R. Williams
  • Haojia Wu, PhD
  • Katherine Xu
  • Joshua Young Cynming Yang, MS
  • Han Yao, MD, MS
  • Samuel Mon-Wei Yu, MD
  • Hal Zhang
  • Jiandong Zhang, MD, PhD
  • Xin-Ping Zhao
  • Min Zhuo, MD
  • Talhah Zubair

2015 Recipients

  • Anna Abrams
  • Matthew Abramson, MD
  • Paul M. Adams, MD
  • Demilade Adedinsewo, MD, MPH
  • Krishna A. Agarwal, MD
  • Shikhar Aggarwal, PhD
  • Christof Aigner, MD
  • Thomas Jessie Torres Aldan, MD
  • Saeed Alshahrani
  • Lisanne C. Anders, MD
  • Lagu A. Androga, MD
  • Syed Anwaruddin, MD
  • Patricio A. Araos, PhD
  • Juan Pablo Arroyo, MD, PhD
  • Dimitri A. Augustin, MD
  • Srinivas S. Ayyala, MD
  • Joshua Bakke, MD
  • Elizabeth K. Batchelor, MD
  • Allan A. Bates, MBChB
  • Randi Bates, MS, APRN, NP, RN
  • Bethany Baumann
  • Kelly H. Beers, DO
  • Hostensia M. Beng, MD
  • Annabel Biruete, PhD
  • Daniel Blum, MD
  • Fabian Bock, MD
  • Naomi C. Boisvert
  • Christina Boutsicaris, MD
  • Fabian Braun, MD
  • Beth Lynne Braunhut, MD
  • Katia Bravo-Jaimes, MD
  • Adam Philip Bregman, MD
  • Stanislav S. Bushik
  • Robert Bruce Cameron
  • Charissa Marie R. Carag, MD
  • Corey J. Cavanaugh, DO
  • Javier A. Cerra-Franco
  • Jonathan J. Chan, MD
  • Cara A. Chang
  • Enchi K. Chang
  • Shiao-Ying Chang, PhD
  • David Chen
  • Elizabeth Y. Chen
  • Jamie Chin-Theodorou, MD
  • Raad B. Chowdhury, MD
  • Chi Chu, MD
  • Annise Chung, DO
  • Chanz Cloutier-McIntosh
  • Stephanie Colon Lopez, MD
  • Anne Regina Cotter
  • Jose B. Cruz Rodriguez, MD
  • Joshua N. Curry
  • Natasha Naresh Dave, MD
  • Carolina De La Flor, MD
  • Connor Deal, MD
  • Nisa Desai
  • Leiberh Noel Diaz
  • Pablo Diaz
  • Salvatore DiBartolo, III
  • Michael D. Donnan, MD
  • Gloria Michelle Ducasa
  • Sara Alexandra Dunham
  • Tess Dupre, MS, PhD
  • Juan Camilo Duque Ballesteros, MD
  • Michael E. Eastman, DO
  • Jonathan Nicodemos Eberhard
  • Osama El shamy
  • Edmundo Erazo, Jr.,, MD
  • Mohammad Kazem Fallahzadeh, MD
  • Danielle Kacie Farrington, MD
  • Clara Fischman
  • Uma R. Fogueri
  • Cassandra Formeck, MD
  • Christy Gandhi
  • Cory V. Gerlach
  • Gaurav Ghosh, MD
  • Ellen Elizabeth Gillis, PhD
  • Graham Thomas Gipson, MD
  • Wendy Robin Glaberson, MD
  • Diana Gliga, MD
  • Deonna S. Glispie
  • Omayra Gonzalez Pagan, PhD
  • Shefali Gupta, MD
  • Anna Gybina, MD, PhD
  • Stefan Hägele
  • Mohamad A. Hanouneh, MD
  • Panupong Hans, MD
  • Thomas Hays
  • Shelby L. Hemker
  • Amber Hertz-Tang, MD, MPH
  • Andrew Hipp, DO
  • Christianna Howard, PhD
  • Omer Ikizler
  • J. Saadi Imam, MD, PhD
  • Divya Indrakanti
  • Maria Luisa Jaime, MD
  • Muhammad Yahya Jan, MD, MBBS
  • Vineet K. Jassal, MD
  • Paul S. Jeronimo
  • Soma Jobbagy
  • Meghan A. Jobson, MD, PhD
  • Cassandra R. Johnson
  • Rachel Ann Johnston
  • Christine Joy C. Junia, MD
  • Alexander Kassar, MD
  • Annegien Kenter, MD
  • Pascale Khairallah, MD
  • Kenneth A. Kilgore, MD
  • Celine Klessens
  • Yi-An Ko
  • Guneet S. Kochar, DO
  • Sybille Köhler, PhD
  • Alexander Louis Kolb
  • Maria Palazzo Kraemer
  • Ryan A. Kunjal, MD
  • Yuenting Diana Kwong, MD
  • Marcus J. Lacey, MD
  • Sebastiaan Lambooy
  • Jason K. Law, MD
  • Joseph T. Leeds, MD
  • Jeremie M. Lever
  • Xiang Li
  • Yi Li, MD, PhD
  • Min-Chun Liao, PhD
  • Andrew A. Lin
  • Gary Liu
  • Hao Liu, MD
  • Wouter Lollinga, PhD
  • Dipesh Maan, MD
  • Claire E. Martin, PhD
  • David Massicotte-Azarniouch, MD
  • Erin M. Mcnerny, PhD
  • Kasi C. McPherson, PhD
  • Emily Mecklenburg, MD
  • Shuqin Mei, MD, PhD
  • Jennifer Mijer
  • Jonathan Alexander Miles
  • Shimontini Mitra, MBChB
  • Adele Mitrotti, MD
  • Erica Monfred, MD
  • Carlos H. Moreno Castaneda, MD
  • Elias Moussaly, DrMed
  • Spencer Ng, MD, PhD
  • Chinonye Chika Ogbonnaya-Odor, MD
  • Rik Hg Olde Engberink, MD
  • Annie Y. Park
  • Catherine Park, MD
  • Joonho Park, MD
  • Michael N. Pham
  • Anna Pisarek-Horowitz, PhD
  • Shahram Jevin Poureetezadi, PhD
  • Archana Raman, PhD
  • Divine Ribakare, DO
  • Emilie Rijnink
  • Natalia Albuquerque Rocha, MD
  • Stephen W. Roderer, MD
  • Hila Roshanravan, PhD
  • Joseph Michael Rusnak, MD
  • Joshua S. Sadolf, MD
  • Sally M. Salah
  • Celina Schauerte
  • Alexandra M. Schefter
  • Adam W. Scott, MD
  • Peter Daniel Serfozo
  • Ankur Shah, MD
  • Nasir A. Shah, MBBS
  • Jung-Im Shin, MD, PhD
  • Eileen Smith
  • Kelsey Smith, MD
  • Vikas Sridhar, MD
  • Stephen H. Strong
  • Daniel Allen Sturgill, MD
  • Adaya C. Sturkey
  • Hassan Suleiman, MD
  • Hua Sun, MD, PhD
  • Helen Tam-Tham
  • Jingwen Tan
  • Veronica A. Taylor, MD
  • Chelsea Tieszen, MD
  • Kalie Lyn Tommerdahl, MD
  • Cory Toomasian
  • Wen-Ching Tran
  • Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, MD, MBA
  • Kohei Uchimura, MD, PhD
  • Letizia Valentin-Friebele, MD
  • René van der Bel
  • Marco van Londen, MD
  • Thomas Velenosi
  • Sarthak Virmani, MBBS
  • Karoline von Loeper, MD
  • Kim T. Vuong
  • Kevin Wang
  • Nicole M. Wegrzyn, PharmD
  • Parker C. Wilson, MD, PhD
  • Jennifer W. Xu
  • Katherine Xu
  • Christopher Yanucil
  • Ei Ye mon, MD
  • Jerry Yu, MD
  • Elizabeth Zavala