This year’s ANIO Award of Academic Excellence goes to Dr Rajiv Saran. Rajiv Saran, MBBS, MD, MRCP (UK), MS, is the Florence E. Bingham Endowed Professor of Nephrology, Professor of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology in the Division of Nephrology, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Saran received his medical degree – MBBS, from JIPMER, Pondicherry, India, and postgraduate training (MD Internal Medicine) from PGIMER, Chandigarh, India. He went on to receive specialized training in Nephrology in the UK at the Cardiff Royal Infirmary, Cardiff, and the Freeman Hospital, in Newcastle upon Tyne, prior to arriving in the US, where he completed his Fellowship in Nephrology and Residency in Internal Medicine, at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.

Passionate about preventing chronic diseases with kidney disease as an exemplar, through the power of ‘data-to-knowledge-to-action’ paradigm, Dr. Saran now has an extensive portfolio of Clinical and Health Services Research and specializes in developing Surveillance Systems for Chronic Kidney Disease and End Stage Kidney Disease. Specific research focus areas have included characterization of the epidemiology of the CKD and its risk factors, investigating the cardio-renal link, optimizing vascular access as the lifeline of hemodialysis, and investigations into key dialysis-related practice patterns related to improving patient outcomes. He previously served as University of Michigan’s Lead Investigator on the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS), and as the Director of the United States Renal Data System (USRDS) Coordinating Center, based at the Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center. He has been instrumental in establishing and continues to lead the CDC’s National Kidney Disease Surveillance System, with its mission of prioritizing prevention of kidney disease in the United States. His recent work has leaned toward refining surveillance systems to tackle disparities, and prediction analytics to help inform earlier stage prevention and improve quality of care.

ANIO Congratulates Dr Saran. Please join us on November 2nd 630PM at Loews in Philadelphia, PA for a special awards ceremony and dinner.

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