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.
Simon Davies, MD - United Kingdom
Dr. Simon Davies is a consultant nephrologist at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire and professor of Nephrology and Dialysis Medicine in the Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine at Keele University. He has recently been appointed academic lead for the Institute's applied clinical research program and Director of the Keele University Health Service Research Unit. His principal research interests are in peritoneal dialysis and the evaluation of fluid status in advanced kidney failure. He is responsible for the Stoke PD Study, now the largest single center study of long-term membrane function and clinical outcomes in peritoneal dialysis patients and a lead investigator of the European Automated Peritoneal Dialysis Outcome Study (EAPOS), the GLOBAL Fluid Study and the forthcoming international PD Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS). These cohort studies have shown both how the peritoneal membrane influences clinical outcomes and how in turn the treatment has the potential to damage the membrane and adversely affect its function. International collaborations have included trials evaluating the effects of polyglucose and low sodium solutions on fluid status in PD patients. He has developed new techniques in bedside body composition using breath analysis for deuterium abundance with the physicist Prof. David Smith for application in dialysis patients and recently completed a trial evaluating the use of bioimpedance in the clinic. His research is supported by Kidney Research UK, the Wellcome Trust, UK National Institute of Health Research and the Baxter Renal Discoveries Extra-mural grant program. He was president of the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis 2010-12, and is Associate Editor of Peritoneal Dialysis International and subject editor (dialysis) for Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation.
Ricardo Correa-Rotter, MD - Mexico
Dr. Correa-Rotter is the Head of the Department of Nephrology and Mineral Metabolism at InstitutoNacional de CienciasMédicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán in Mexico. He also serves as Professor of Medicine and Nephrology at National Autonomous University of Mexico and Professor of Nephrology at Panamerican University in Mexico.
Devoted to improving outcomes in patients with kidney disease, Dr. Correa-Rotter is Immediate Past President of the Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension (SLANH 2009-2012), a member of the Postgraduate Education Committee of the American Society of Nephrology (2008-2013), Chairman of the International Society of Nephrology-Global Outreach for Latin America (Former COMGAN), Chairman of the Technical Advisory Group for the Americas of PAHO, 2011-2014, Chairman of the International Society of Nephrology Nominating Committee and member of the Board of KDIGO.
He is also currently a member of the Academy of Medicine of Mexico and National Researcher Level III of the Council of Science and Technology of Mexico. The author of more than 130 scientific articles in peer-reviewed international journals, Dr. Correa-Rotter has written over 50 book chapters and edited two books in nephrology.
Dr. Correa-Rotter is very passionate about education and training and has mentored over 60 Renal Fellows and more than 10 PhD graduates throughout Latin America.
Marcello Tonelli, MD - Canada
Dr. Marcello Tonelli received an MD from the University of Western Ontario, specialist certification in nephrology (FRCPC) at Dalhousie University, and an SM in epidemiology from Harvard University. He is a nephrologist and Professor at the University of Alberta. He serves as Associate Editor of American Journal of Kidney Diseases, the Cochrane Renal Group and the Journal of Nephrology, and is a member of the Editorial Board for JASN. Dr. Tonelli is the past President of the Canadian Society of Nephrology, a Councillor of the International Society of Nephrology and a past member of the Minister's Expert Committee for Drug Evaluation for the Province of Alberta. Dr. Tonelli is the chair of the Canadian Task Force for Preventive Health Care, a national panel of experts that makes recommendations about preventive health services to Canada's more than 36,000 family physicians.
Dr. Tonelliholds a Health Scholar award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) and a Canada Research Chair in the optimal care of people with chronic kidney disease. He is a founding member of the Alberta Kidney Disease Network and co-leader of the AHFMR Interdisciplinary Chronic Disease Collaboration (ICDC) research team. Since 2005, Dr. Tonelli has been the co-leader of a joint initiative between the University of Alberta and the Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, aimed at prevention of kidney failure among the poor of Jalisco, Mexico.
Dr. Tonelli has more than 220 peer-reviewed publications, has an H-index of 40, and holds more than $5M in peer-reviewed research funds as PI or co-PI. His research is aimed at improving the care of people with chronic kidney disease and its major causes (hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and atherosclerosis). Specific areas of focus within these clinical populations include: identification and management of novel risk factors; designing new strategies to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery; and determinants of access to high quality care. A unique aspect of Dr. Tonelli's research program includes partnering with regional, provincial, and national decision-makers to ensure that the findings will be used to produce rational health policy.
Past International Medal Recipients:
2012
Jianghua Chen, MD, China
Raymond Krediet, MD, PhD, The Netherlands
Philip K.T. Li, MD, FRCP, FACP, FNKF, China
Peter Stenvinkel, MD, PhD, Sweden
2011
Nan Chen, MD, China
Angela, D'Angelo, MD, Italy
Ron T. Gansevoort, MD, PhD, The Netherlands
David C. Wheeler, MD, FRCP, United Kingdom
2010
Jonathan Craig, MD, Australia
Alison MacLeod, MD, United Kingdom
DimitriosOreopoulos, MD, Canada
Paul E. de Jong, MD, The Netherlands
2009
Guillermo Garcia Garcia, MD, Mexico
DonalO'Donoghue, MD, England
Gregoria T. Obrador, MD, MPH, Mexico
Kim Solez, MD, Canada
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 JafferNaqvi, MD, Karachi, Pakistan
Susumu Takahashi, MD, PhD, Tokyo, Japan
ChristophWanner, 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
SaraladeviNaicker, 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 KarelOpatrny, 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
ProfessorMiroslawMydilk, Kosice, SlovacRepublic
1993
Jamie Herrera-Acosta, MD, Mexico City, Mexico
Jose L. Rodicio, MD, Madrid, Spain
Professor Sandor, Sonkodi, Hungary
VisithSitprija, MD, Bangkok, Thailand
1992
Professor Albert Valek, Czechoslovakia
Professor Mary G. McGeown, Ireland
Professor Ori Better, Haifa, Israel
Professor RashadBersoum, 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