Sylvia E. Rosas, MD, MSCE
Associate Professor of Medicine, Joslin Diabetes Center/ Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital/Harvard Medical School
The Garabed Eknoyan Award was created to recognize an individual who has promoted the mission of the National Kidney Foundation in Making Lives Better for people with kidney disease through exceptional contributions to key initiatives of NKF such as the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI®) or clinical research in the field of kidney disease.
Sylvia E. Rosas, MD, MSCE is a nephrologist and physician-scientist at the Joslin Diabetes Center and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Ma. She is the Director of the Latino Kidney Clinic and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Rosas’s primary research is on chronic kidney disease epidemiology particularly diabetic kidney disease. She is the PI for the Kidney Precision Medicine Program (KPMP) Chronic Kidney Disease recruitment site at Joslin Diabetes Center. KPMP aims to ethically obtain and evaluate human kidney biopsies in order to create a kidney tissue atlas, define disease subgroups, and identify critical cells, pathways, and targets for novel therapies. She is the clinical center PI in the NIDDK-funded multicenter APOL1 Long-term Kidney Transplantation Outcomes Network (APOLLO) that evaluates the role of the APOL1 gene in kidney transplant outcomes. She has received numerous awards including the National Kidney Foundation of New England Physician of the Year in 2017, National Hispanic Medical Association Fellow of the Year Award and the 2021 American Society of Nephrology Midcareer Distinguished Leader Award. She is the Immediate Past President of the National Kidney Foundation and is the founding chair of the NKF Health Equity Advisory Committee.
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