Recognition & Awards
International Distinguished Medal Recipients
The International Distinguished Medal was established in 1990 to honor the achievement of individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of kidney disease and extended the goals of the National Kidney Foundation. The Foundation President presents medals each year to recognize the accomplishments of individuals through their clinical work, roles in academia, scientific discoveries or volunteer work in organizations similar to the Foundation.
Jonathan C. Craig, MD
Jonathan Craig is a Paediatric Nephrologist at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and holds a personal Chair in Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney.
His research is focussed on improving the evidence-base underpinning the prevention and treatment of kidney disease in children and adults. He has sought to achieve this by facilitating the development of a clean and comprehensive register of all randomized controlled trials in kidney disease, systematically evaluating and synthesising these trials into systematic reviews, and then integrating these systematic reviews into evidence-based guidelines. He has also conducted a variety of large scale clinical and population health research projects. Examples include studies designed to prevent the development of kidney disease in Aboriginal children, to prevent urinary tract infection in children, and more effective detection and treatment of people with kidney disease and cancer.
He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet, including editorials in these journals. He is on the editorial board for the American Journal of Kidney Disease, Nephrology and Evidence-Based Child Health. He has recently co-edited the textbook ‘Evidence Based Nephrology’.
Jonathan is the Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Renal Group and is the incoming Co-Chair of the Cochrane Collaboration. He recently received the TJ Neill award for outstanding contribution to science in nephrology in Australia and New Zealand.
Alison MacLeod, MD
Alison MacLeod graduated in Medicine (MBChB) in 1975 at the University of Aberdeen and was awarded MD (a postgraduate research degree in the UK) with Honours in 1984. In 1979 she obtained membership of the Royal College of Physicians and became a Fellow of both the London and Edinburgh Royal Colleges in 1993. She was appointed full Professor in 1999 and has been a consultant in Internal Medicine and Nephrology since 1988. Dr. MacLeod was Clinical Director of the Renal Service for the Grampian region (pop 500,000) from 2000 to 2003 and instigated a dedicated transport service for haemodialysis patients.
Alison currently leads the Applied Renal Research Group at the University of Aberdeen, researching the epidemiology of acute and chronic kidney disease and providing evidence based systematic reviews for the Cochrane Collaboration funded by the European Union and several medical charities. She chaired the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network guideline on the Management of Chronic Kidney Disease and advised the Department of Health (England) on the Renal National Service Framework. She is an active member of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) group, serving on the Executive Committee, and being a member of the guideline groups. She has also been a member of the European Best Practice Guidelines Executive Committee since its inception, has been an External Examiner for Higher degrees awarded by universities within and outwith the UK including Oxford and the Karolinska, and has undertaken the Quality Assurance of Medical Education on behalf of the General Medical Council of the UK.
Dimitrios Oreopoulos, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FACP
Bio coming soon
Paul E. de Jong, MD
Bio coming soon
Past Recipients
2009
Guillermo Garcia, MD
Donal O'Donoghue, MD
Gregorio T. Obrador, MD, MPH
Kim Solez, MD, FRCP
2008
Bernard Charra, MD, France
Wendy Hoy, MBBS, BScMed, FRACP, Australia
Michel Jadoul, MD, Belgium
Yves Vanrenterghem, MD, PhD, Belgium
2007
Mona Al-Rukhaimi, MD, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dick de Zeeuw, MD, PhD, Groningen, The Netherlands
Sayyid Ali Jaffer Naqvi, MD, Karachi, Pakistan
Susumu Takahashi, MD, PhD, Tokyo, Japan
Christoph Wanner, MD, Wurzburg, Germany
2006
Jorge Cannata-Andia, MD, Oviedo, Spain
Prakesh Keshaviah, MD, Dehradun, Uttaranchal, India
Gabriel Mircescu, MD, Bucharest, Romania
Yusuke Tsukamoto, MD, Tokyo, Japan
Haiyan Wang, MD, Beijing, China
2005
John Dirks, MD, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Saraladevi Naicker, MD, Johannesburg, South Africa
Luis Revert, MD, Barcelona, Spain
Wu Chang Yang, MD, Taiwan, China
2004
Peter G. Blake, MB, FRCP, Toronto, Canada
Kai-Uwe Eckardt, MD, Berlin, Germany
S. Adibul Hasan Rizvi, MBBS, FRCS, FRCSE, FCPS, FRCP, Karachi, Pakistan
Bernardo Rodriguez-Iturbe, MD, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Claudio Ronco, MD, Vicenza, Italy
2003
Georgi Abraham, MD, Chennai, India
Shanyan Lin, MD, Shanghai, China
Nester Schor, MD, PhD, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Carmine Zoccali, MD, Reggio, Italy
2002
Gavin Becker, MD, Victoria, Australia
Francesco Locatelli, MD, Lecco, Italy
Sergio Mezzano, MD, Valdivia, Chile
Giuseppe Piccoli, MD, Torino, Italy
Wladyslaw Sulowica, MD, PhD, Kracow, Poland
2001
Elvira Emilia Arrizurieta, MD, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hans-Henrick Parving, MD, DMSC, Copenhagen, Denmark
Yahya Sagliker, MD, Adana, Turkey
Fernando Valderrababo, MD, PhD, Madrid, Spain
2000
Vittorio Andreucci, MD, PhD, Naples, Italy
Norbert Lameire, MD, PhD, Gent, Belgium
Florian Lang, MD, PhD, Tubingen, Germany
1999
Jonas Bergstrom, MD, PhD, Huddinge, Sweden
Walter H. Hörl, MD, PhD, Vienna, Austria
Vincenzo Savica, MD, Messina, Italy
Gianfranco Guarnieri, MD, Trieste, Italy
1998
Professor Rosario Maiorca, Brescia, Italy
John Walls, MD, Leicester, England
Shaul M. Shasha, MD, Nahariya, Israel
Professor Jean-Pierre Grunfeld, Paris, France
1997
Professor Guido Bellinghieri, Sicily, Italy
Professor Hirotoshi Morii, Osaka, Japan
Professor Momir H. Polenakovic, Skopje, Macedonia
Professor Boleslaw Rutkowski, Gdansk, Poland
1996
Professor Judit Nagy, Pecs, Hungry
Professor Karel Opatrny, Pizen, Czech Republic
Miguel C. Riella, MD, Curitba, Brazil
1995
Maurice Slapak, MD, Hampshire, England
Guy Laurent, MD, Tassin, France
David N. Kerr, MD, London, England
Alexander P. Disney, MD, Adelaide, South Australia
Andrzej Ksiazek, MD, Lublin, Poland
1994
Stefan Angielsi, MD, Gdansk, Poland
Natale G. De Santo, MD, Naples, Italy
Professor Miroslaw Mydilk, Kosice, Slovac Republic
1993
Jamie Herrera-Acosta, MD, Mexico City, Mexico
Jose L. Rodicio, MD, Madrid, Spain
Professor Sandor, Sonkodi, Hungary
Visith Sitprija, MD, Bangkok, Thailand
1992
Professor Albert Valek, Czechoslovakia
Professor Mary G. McGeown, Ireland
Professor Ori Better, Haifa, Israel
Professor Rashad Bersoum, Egypt
Professor Karl M. Koch, Hannover, Germany
M. Derome Tremblay, France
1991
Professor Nobuhiro Sugino, Tokyo, Japan
Professor K.S. Chugh, Mumbai, India
Professor Renee Habib, Paris, France
Professor Franciszek Kokot, Poland
Professor Sevrin Ringoir, Ghent, Belgium
1990
Professor Kazimierz Baczyk, Poznan, Poland
Professor Vittorio Bonomini, Bologna, Italy
Professor J. Stewart Cameron, London, England
T.T. Durai, MD, Singapore
Professor Henri Jahn, Strasbourgh-Cedex, France
Professor Eberhard Ritz, Heidelberg, Germany