Recognition & Awards
Shaul G. Massry Distinguished Lecture
The Shaul G. Massry Distinguished Lecture award was established to honor the recipient for his contributions to the kidney health care community and the National Kidney Foundation. This year’s Massry award recipient is Dr. Allan Collins, MD, FACP of Minneapolis, for his work with the National Kidney Foundation and his outstanding efforts for the kidney community.
Dr. Collins is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine and the Director of the Chronic Disease Research Group at the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, the NIH-funded registry for individuals receiving dialysis and kidney transplantation.
A past President-Elect of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), Dr. Collins is the Director of the NKF’s Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) Data Coordinating Center. He is also the Director and Principal Investigator at the U.S. Renal Data System Coordinating Center, and his special projects include disaster assistance after both the Armenian earthquake in 1988 and the Ural Mountain pipeline explosion in 1989. He is a member of the team for U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance.
Dr. Collins received his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, his medical school degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, and his post-graduate degree at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include epidemiology and risk factor analysis of hemodialysis patient survival, capitation analysis for end-stage renal disease patients and chronic kidney disease clinical and economic outcomes.
Past Recipients
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