Apologies for the inconvenience, please find corrected newsletter below:

Dr Fergus Caskey
Medical Director, UK Renal Registry, United Kingdom
Having graduated from the University of Glasgow, Fergus went on to obtain a Masters in Health Services and Public Health Research and then an MD in the Cost-effectiveness of Dialysis in Europe from the University of Aberdeen. He became a Consultant Nephrologist in Bristol and was appointed Medical Director of the UK Renal Registry in 2013.

Through his work at the UK Renal Registry he has broad experience and access to expertise in datasets, databases, data extraction, information governance, research ethics and the planning of analyses for audit, quality improvement and research. His research interests include the epidemiology of acute kidney injury and all stages of chronic kidney disease, particularly around equity of access to treatment and using routine healthcare data to improve the efficiency of clinical trials.





Prof Vivekanad Jha
Executive Director, The George Institute for Global Health, India; The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; President Elect Of the International Society of Nephrology
Vivek did his Internal Medicine and Nephrology training at PGIMER (Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research) in Chandigarh, India, joined its faculty and was the Professor of Nephrology. He set up a basic science research lab including the Stem Cell Research Facility and was Head of the Department of Translational and Regenerative Medicine and Officer-In-Charge, Medical Education and Research Cell.

Prof Jha is recognized as a global expert on kidney disease and focuses on emerging public health threats globally and in India. He currently leads research projects operating in more than 20 countries. He is particularly interested in using multi-disciplinary approaches and innovations to address the system level health and economic challenge posed to humanity by non-communicable diseases. He enjoys teaching and mentoring young colleagues.

He has published over 280 peer reviewed papers, many in the most prestigious journal in the world and over 40 book chapters. He is frequently invited to lecture at major international conferences. He has held leadership positions in many organizations, is a member of Task Forces and Scientific Advisory Committees of the Department of Science and Technology of Govt of India, an Advisor to the WHO, has been on Editorial Boards of major journals and has been Section Editor of The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology.

Prof Fatiu Abiola Arogundade
Honorary Consultant, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ilelfe, Nigeria
Professor Fatiu Abiola Arogundade had his basic medical degree from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos and postgraduate training in Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife. He has the Fellowship of National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in Internal Medicine (FMCP), West African College of Physicians (FWACP), Royal College of Physicians of Edinburg (FRCPEdin) and Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP). He had ISN Fellowship training in Cairo University Hospital, Egypt, hence he is an ISN Fellow since 2002. Professor Arogundade was promoted to the rank of Professor of Medicine on the 1st October 2011 in Obafemi Awolowo University and he is also a Honorary Consultant Physician / Nephrologist to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

His research interests are in general nephrology and renal replacement therapies. He had studied aetiopathogenesis and epidemiology of CKD in Nigeria looking at contributions of HIV, Hydrocarbons, Sickle Cell Disease and parasites. He had studied anaemia, bone disease, survival and quality of life in advanced chronic kidney disease. He was in the pioneer group that assessed the usefulness and applicability of CAPD in Nigeria as well as renal transplantation. He is currently examining modalities for retarding progression of kidney disease in Sickle Cell Disease patients as well as genomics of kidney disease in Africa. He has published about 80 manuscripts in local, national and international journals and is a reviewer to several local and international journals. He is the Editor in Chief of Journal of Clinical Sciences and an editorial adviser to Tropical Journal of Nephrology. He has authored 4 chapters in 4 different books including Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology.

He has also been involved in administration as he served as the Vice- Dean, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University between 2011 and 2013. He is the Secretary to Faculty of Internal Medicine, National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria from 2011 to 2014 and now the Chairman of the Faculty. He is the current Secretary and Treasurer to African Association of Nephrology and President-Elect of Nigerian Association of Nephrology and Transplant Association of Nigeria. He has mentored about 30 postgraduate students. He is married with children and his hobbies include travelling, sports and reading