Organizing Faculty
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J. Harold Helderman, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Microbiology & Immunology
Medical Director
Chief, Renal Transplant
Vanderbilt Transplant Center
Chair, Committee on Admissions
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN

Robert Mendez, M.D.
Professor of Urology & Surgery
USC School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Mohamed H. Sayegh, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Wadi N. Suki, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Guest Faculty 2008

William M. Bennett, M.D.
Medical Director, Transplantation and Director, Renal Research Legacy Health Systems
Professor of Medicine (Retired)
Organ Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon

Talat Alp Ikizler, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Clinical Research in Nephrology
Director, Master of Science in Clinical Investigation Program
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN 

Kamyar Kalantar-Zedeh, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California at Los Angeles, CA
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Los Angeles, CA 

Emil P. Paganini, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Medical College of Penn State University
Head, Section of Dialysis and Extracorporeal Therapy
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio 

V. Ram Peddi,  M.D.
Transplant Nephrologist
Director, Kidney Transplant  Research
Department of  Transplantation
California Pacific Medical Center
San  Francisco, CA

Lloyd E. Ratner, M.D.
Director, Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation
Department of Surgery
Columbia University
New York, NY 

Myles Wolf, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA