Our Board

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John D. Mahan, MD

President

Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH) Center for Faculty Development and Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Program Director. He serves as Director of Medical Education in the OSU Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring and Encouragement (FAME).
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He also serves as Co-Chair of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN) Training Program Directors (TPD) Committee, and as a member of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association Council (IPNA) and Co-Chair of the IPNA Professional Education Committee.  He chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Pedialink Editorial Board and Co-Chairs the Pediatric Resident Burnout Resilience Study Consortium. He has served on the Steering Committee of the MidWest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium since its inception.
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Tej Mattoo, MD, DCH, FRCP (UK), FAAP

Treasurer

Professor of Pediatrics and Urology, Vice Chair Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, and Chief of Pediatric Nephrology & Hypertension, Wayne Pediatrics.
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He did M.B., B.S and MD (Pediatrics) from the University of Kashmir, India; DCH and MRCP from the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK; and trained in Pediatric Nephrology at Guy's Hospital, London, UK and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA.

Dr. Mattoo was a founding Steering Committee member of the Midwest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium (MWPNC) and is currently the Treasurer and a founding member of the Board of Directors of Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium (PNRC). He has received numerous research grants, including those from the NIH/NIDDK and has authored more than 180 research publications and book chapters. Dr. Mattoo is currently the Section Editor (Pediatric Nephrology) of UpToDate, Editor of the International Journal of Nephrology, and is also on the Editorial Board of the journal Pediatrics. From 2007 to 2018, he was the Founding Editor-In-Chief of PREPĀ® Nephrology by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Mattoo has won many awards, including research education, mentoring, and teaching awards by the Department of Pediatrics, teaching award by Wayne State University School of Medicine, NephCure Foundation award for research, and President's Award by the Board of Governors of Wayne State University for excellence in service.

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Larry Greenbaum, MD, PhD

Board Member

Division Director of Pediatric Nephrology and the Bernard Marcus Professor of Pediatric Nephrology at the Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta. He is also the Executive Clinical Director at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. He received his MD and PhD degrees from the Yale School of Medicine, and completed a residency in Pediatrics and a fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology at the UCLA School of Medicine.
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Dr. Greenbaum is an NIH-funded investigator and conducts clinical research in a variety of areas in pediatric nephrology, including renal osteodystrophy, cystinosis, RTA, urinary tract infections, aHUS, chronic kidney disease, and nephrotic syndrome. He co-edited the textbooks Practical Strategies in Pediatric Diagnosis and Therapy and Clinical Pediatric Nephrology. He is currently editing the 3rd edition of Pediatric Kidney Disease and is a major contributor to Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. He has received multiple awards for teaching residents and medical students. Dr. Greenbaum is a past president of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology.

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Keia Sanderson, MD, MSCR

Board Member

Dr. Keia Sanderson is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Director of Pediatric Dialysis at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. She earned her medical degree from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at the University of South Carolina and pediatric nephrology fellowship at Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri. She received a Masters of Science in Clinical Research from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

.Dr. Sanderson's NIH-funded research is in the developmental origins of health and disease, specifically the identification of early life exposures that impact pediatric kidney health.

She is an active participant in the pediatric nephrology community, having served as the founding Co-Chair of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN) Justice, Equity, and Diversity Committee, past Chair of the ASPN Certification Committee, and current member of the ASPN-Pediatric Academic Society (PAS) Program Committee.  Dr. Sanderson also serves as the founding pediatric nephrology mentor for the Academic Pediatric Association (APA) New Century Scholars Program, a program that she helped to partner with ASPN to fund underrepresented pediatric trainees with interest in pediatric nephrology. This work aligns with the PNRC mission to help train the next generation of pediatric nephrology investigators through the mentorship of students, trainees, and residents.

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William E. Smoyer, MD

Board Member

Vice President for Clinical and Translational Research at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and as Director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Research. He is also a Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University and the Co-PI for the OSU Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, representing the Child Health component.
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He has focused his career on basic, clinical, and translational research to improve our understanding of the molecular regulation of podocyte injury during nephrotic syndrome, and to develop more targeted and effective novel treatments for childhood nephrotic syndrome. Dr. Smoyer holds numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health, funding both basic research and clinical trials related to glomerular disease, nephrotic syndrome, and podocyte biology. He is a co-founder of the Midwest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium (MWPNC).

He has authored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.  He is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, American Pediatric Society, American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, International Pediatric Nephrology Association, as well as a fellow of the American Society of Nephrology, among other numerous professional associations.  He also currently serves as Co-Chair of the Coordinating Committee of the Institute for Advanced Clinical Trials in Children (I-ACT), as well as on the Boards of NephCure Kidney International, the Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium, and the CTSA External Advisory Boards of the University of Southern California (USC/CHLA) and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).  Dr. Smoyer has been listed among the Best Doctors in America continuously since 2005.
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Tarak Srivastava, MD, FASN 

Board Member

Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri at Kansas City Attending Nephrologist, Children's Mercy Hospital.

Dr. Srivastava is a Pediatric Nephrologist at the Children's Mercy Hospital, University of Missouri at Kansas City. Dr. Srivastava graduated from Seth GS Medical College, Mumbai, India.
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He did his Pediatric Residency from Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India, and his Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship at Sydney Children's Hospital, Sydney, Australia. He completed his second Pediatric Residency and Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship at Children Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, USA. His laboratory research interest is in podocyte biology in health and disease, and in progression of chronic kidney disease. His clinical research interest is in Nephrotic Syndrome and in Metabolic Bone Disease. He is the Director of the Nephrology Research Laboratory and Director of the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Program at Children Mercy Hospital.

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Kera Luckritz, DO, MPH

Board Member


Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatric Nephrology at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Michigan Medicine. Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for Pediatrics, Medical Director of MyUofMHealth Patient Portal and Medical Director of Pediatric Dialysis Services.  She received her medical degree from University of New England in Biddeford, ME.  After completing her residency in pediatrics at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA she entered her Pediatric Nephrology fellowship at Seattle Children's Hospital where she also received her Master of Public Health with a focus on Epidemiology.  She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan graduate program for Health Infrastructures and Learning Sciences.

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Dr Luckritz has a variety of research interests in both nephrology and clinical informatics. She has published on Acute Kidney Injury and Acute Care Nephrology, Chronic Kidney Disease and End-Stage Renal Disease and is active in translational trials for extracorporeal therapies.  She is actively researching patients level of trust and interaction with the healthcare system through the patient portal. 

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Myda Khalid, MD

Board Member

Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Riley Hospital for Children, Indiana University School of Medicine. Associate Fellowship Director for the Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Program. She received her medical degree from the Aga Khan University School of Medicine in Pakistan, completed her pediatric residency at Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, Dartmouth University and her pediatric nephrology fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University School of Medicine.
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Her research interests are in glomerular diseases including IgA nephropathy/vasculitis, minimal change disease, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, membranous nephropathy and shiga-toxin associated Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. She has several NIH funded research projects in her areas of interest. She is a member of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, International Society of Pediatric Nephrology, American Society of Nephrology.  She is a strong advocate for the PNRC board's mission towards promotion of trainees and junior faculty, international collaboration and expansion of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.