I am an MD nephrologist, Professor of Medicine, Surgery, and Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles (relocated from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in NY in 2022) and have been a continuously active member of the American Society of Transplantation since 1999. Among many contributions to the Society, I served on the Awards committee, the Community of Practice for Basic Sciences (including serving on the executive committee), the Grant Review committee, and the ATC program planning committee (including committee chair). In recognition of my service, I was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Transplantation. I am a collaborative, translational, Physician-Scientist with ~ 30 years of NIH-funded research in transplant science/medicine using preclinical models and human transplant recipients. I have 20 years of experience running clinical trials in transplantation (former Chair of the Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation, CTOT, consortium) and I currently lead or support four ongoing mechanistic, collaborative, NIH-funded clinical trials performed in kidney, heart, or lung transplant recipients. In addition to mentoring dozens of students, postdocs and fellows (I received the AST mentoring award in 2024), I am a former NIH Training Grant director and Course director and teacher of Medical School and graduate school Immunology courses, underscoring my dedication to education. I served as NIH grant study section chair, and I serve on the Immune Tolerance Network (NIH funded) Steering committee, the latter helping to guide development clinical trials aimed at inducing transplant tolerance. I have significant administrative and financial experience; I currently oversee a research budget of >30 million dollars per year.
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