Recognition & Awards
Shaul G. Massry Distinguished Lecture
This lectureship was established to honor Dr. Shaul G. Massry for his scientific achievements and his contributions to the kidney health care community and the National Kidney Foundation. The 2012 honored lecture is Ravi Thadhani, MD, MPH. Dr. Thadhani will be presenting on Thursday, May 10th.
Ravi Thadhani in an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has two major areas of interest: preeclampsia and dialysis mortality. His focus is to bring novel therapies and diagnostics to patients with renal failure in hopes to improve outcomes. He is currently working on therapeutic strategies to alleviate the symptoms of preeclampsia and prolong pregnancy, and interventions including vitamin D and related analogs to prevent cardiovascular disease and infection in patients with chronic renal failure. Dr Thadhani has served as a reviewer for and has published in several journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and Kidney International. He has published over 130 manuscripts; he reviews grants for several organizations such as the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Thadhani was inducted into the American Society of Clinical Investigators and American Epidemiology Society in 2008.
Past Shaul G. Massry Distinguished Lecture Recipients:
2011 – Glenn Chertow, MD
2010 – Allan J. Collins, MD, FACP
2009 – Mohamed H. Sayegh MD, FAHA, FASN
2008 – Tom Greene, PhD
2007 – Eberhard Ritz, MD
2006 – Giuseppe Remuzzi, MD, FRCP
2005 – Edmund J. Lewis, MD
2004 – Hans-Henrik Parvin, MD, DMSc
2003 – Robert Alpern, MD
2002 – Joseph V. Bonventre, MD, PhD
2001 – Andrzej S. Krolewski, MD, PhD
2000 – Richard J. Glassock, MD
1999 – Giuseppe Bianchi
1998 – Josephine Briggs, MD
1997 – Gary E. Striker, MD
1996 – Alfred Michael, MD