Recognition & Awards
Shaul G. Massry Distinguished Lecture
The Shaul G. Massry Distinguished Lecture award was established to honor the recipient for 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 on behalf of the kidney community.
Dr. Collins has over twenty five years of experience in nephrology and ESRD treatment. His clinical experience and research have focused on acute and chronic care of ESRD patients and prospective and retrospective clinical studies on dialysis techniques and associated outcomes. He has also done extensive work with high-efficiency dialysis and therapy prescription.
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 registry for individuals receiving dialysis and kidney transplantation. As Immediate Past President of the 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. He is a member of the team for U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance.
From 1983 to 1995 Dr. Collins managed the Metropolitan Dialysis Division and the clinical database of the Regional Kidney Disease Program (RKDP) at Hennepin County Medical Center, coordinating all areas of patient care, data collection, quality assurance, death reviews, computer systems, and analyses.
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