Home Dialysis Virtual Education Faculty & Moderators 2025-26

Dr Graham Abra is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University and served as the Chief Medical Officer, Home Therapies at Satellite Healthcare. He completed medical school and Internal Medicine training at the University of California, San Diego where he spent an additional year as the Chief Medical Resident. He completed nephrology fellowship at Stanford University and spent two years at the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center. His current clinical practice focuses on the care of patients with advanced Chronic Kidney Disease and the management of home dialysis. He served as the Medical Director of WellBound San Jose, a home dialysis facility for half a decade and has worked in a variety of administrative roles at Satellite Healthcare for 10 years including serving as the Medical Director of the organizations ESRD Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plan. He is a member of the PDOPPS US Advisory Workgroup, has been a site investigator for both the Tablo and Quanta SC+ home hemodialysis Investigational Device Exemption trials, is Associate Editor of Nephrology News & Issues, Chairs the Home Dialysis Academy of Excellence and is on the NephJC Advisory team.

Disclosures
Employer: Stanford University
Advisory or Leadership Role: Fresenius Medical Care Home Dialysis Medical Advisory Board (paid)

Dr. Bansal is a clinical Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Home Dialysis Program and CTSA-Hub Liaison Team at UT Health San Antonio. Her vision and leadership using a team approach established a successful PD program in 2011 and she fervently promotes this underutilized modality to the patients and fellows locally and nationally, addressing the issue of a shortage of home dialysis competent nephrologists. She is a councilor of ISPD-NAC, member of ASN – Home Dialysis Steering Committee, and HDU faculty.  Dr. Bansal also co-founded and has been directing the annual cardiorenal connections symposium.  She was the recipient of the 2023 Presidential award in Clinical Excellence.

Disclosures
Employer: University of Texas Health at San Antonio
Research Funding: NovoNordisk; Bayer; DCRI; AstraZeneca
Honoraria: Home Dialysis University
Advisory or Leadership Role: Section editor: Clinical Nephrology Journal; Journal of Clinical and Translational Science ; Editorial board member: Kidney360, cJASN; Advisory Board: Novartis; Travere; Calliditas NA Enterprises Inc.; Vera

Osama El Shamy, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Washington, DC. He completed his medical school training at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and completed his residency in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia and completed both his nephrology fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. He also completed an additional year of fellowship at the same institution in home dialysis (Home Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis).

Dr. El Shamy is the Medical Director at the DaVita Southeast dialysis unit in Washington DC, associate Nephrology Fellowship Program Director and the director of the ESRD service at GW.

Prior to joining GW, he was an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, where he established a dialysis fellowship. He has assumed several leadership roles in educating peers and advancing home dialysis. As a well-published author and authority in the field of home dialysis, he has been invited to organize and present at national and international meetings.

Dr. El Shamy is currently co-chair of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) Program Committee, both an author and reviewer for UpToDate’s peritoneal dialysis section, a hub committee member on the NKF Home Dialysis Project ECHO, member of the steering committee of the Home Hemodialysis Fellowship Training Program through Outset Medical, and former co-chair of the NKF Kidney Commute podcast. Other leadership teaching responsibilities include being a faculty member of Home Dialysis University and leading the ISPD North American Chapter Central Time Zone journal club series.

He is the recipient of the Gold Humanism in Medicine award and is a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society.  He has been involved in multiple national and international societies’ meetings, such as the ASN Home Dialysis Focus Group, the ASN post-acute kidney injury on dialysis (AKI-D) care workgroup, and the KDIGO controversies conference in home dialysis. He also served as an abstract review for both the International Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Nephrology meetings.

Disclosures
Employer: George Washington University
Consultancy: Outset Medical
Honoraria: Home Dialysis University; UpToDate; Vantive
Advisory or Leadership Role: Light Line Medical Inc; Akebia Therapeutics
Speakers Bureau: NxStage-Fresenius Medical Care

Joel D. Glickman, MD is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Perlman School of Medicine of The University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Home Dialysis Programs. He attended Downstate Medical School, did his internal medicine residency at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, and completed his fellowship in nephrology at the Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania.   His academic interests focus on clinical outcomes and education in home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Dr. Glickman has been named “Top Doc” in Philadelphia Magazine and in U.S. News and World Report. Nationally, he frequently lectures on chronic kidney disease, home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. He has received several teaching awards, including the Edward D. Viner Teaching Award at Pennsylvania Hospital, and is a three-time recipient of the J. Russell Elkinton Faculty Teaching Award from the Renal-Electrolyte Division at the University of Pennsylvania.  Recently, he was appointed Course Director for Home Dialysis University.

Disclosures
Employer: University of Pennsylvania
Honoraria: Home Dialysis University (ISPD); UpToDate

Dr. Golper was recruited to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) as a Professor in 1999. His prior international experience included organizational memberships, being an Honorary Consultant to the UK National Health Service during his role at The European Dialysis and Transplant Registry in London, serving as the secretary of the International Society of Blood Purification and organizing its 1992 meeting. He co-founded the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) Ad Hoc Committee on Peritonitis.

Nationally, he chaired the Peritoneal Dialysis Adequacy Work Group of the Dialysis Outcome Quality Initiative, served on the initial Data Management Committee at the inception of the United States Renal Data System, helped establish what is now Home Dialysis University (HDU), served on the Boards of the Renal Physicians Association and the American Association of Kidney Patients, served as president of the Louisville, Kentucky, chapter of the National Kidney Foundation, served on several committees of the American Society of Nephrology, NIH and FDA, and was chief medical officer of Disease Management Inc.

He was recruited to VUMC to specifically address facility and physician revenue operational issues. He formed and led the Department of Medicine’s Divisional Coding Expert Committee, working closely with the VUMC Office of Compliance. He performed the analyses and then was a leader in the creation of the Vanderbilt East Dialysis Facility. He was assigned to improve upon and grow the Home Dialysis Program.

He hosted the ISPD North American Chapter 2013 meeting. He later received its Zellerman award and became president. In 2017 he became the course director for HDU. He received the Nephrology Division outstanding faculty award 3 times while maintaining a busy nephrology practice.

He was an associate editor of Clinical Nephrology and Blood Purification, section editor in Up To Date and on the review board of many journals. In July of 2023 he was awarded emeritus status at VUMC and he is currently part time  Professor of Medicine at the Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont.

Disclosures
Employer: Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont
Consultancy: NxStage; Lightline; Exterius, Medical Education Institute
Research Funding: Renal Research Institute
Honoraria: Home Dialysis University, NephroNet,
Advisory or Leadership Role: NxStage; LightLine Medical, Home Dialysis University
Other: Section Editor for Dialysis Up To Date; Executive Committee Home Dialysis University

Dr Gould is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of outpatient hemodialysis in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Vanderbilt University, as well as the Associate Vice Chair for Patient Safety and Quality within the Vanderbilt Department of Medicine.  Ed is a member of the ASN Quality Committee, co-chairs ASN’s Home Dialysis Steering Committee, and he serves on the PD Core Interventions for Infection Prevention Workgroup and the ASN Quality Committee.  His interests include PCKD, Home Dialysis and Nephrolithiasis, though much of his time is now spent in system/process redesign and implementation science.  An avid gardener, he can be found most Saturdays in the yard tending to his green spaces.

Disclosures
Employer: Vanderbilt Department of Medicine
Consultancy: Premier Inc.
Research Funding: Abbvie

Dr. Frank Liu is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and a staff nephrologist at the Rogosin Institute.   He completed medical school at Weill Cornell Medical College, then went across the country to complete Internal Medicine training and Nephrology fellowship at the University of California, San Diego before returning back to New York City.  He currently serves as the Director of Home Hemodialysis and Co-Director of the PEAK Multidisciplinary CKD clinic at Rogosin, as well as being director of the inpatient nephrology critical care consult service at New York Presbyterian – Weill Cornell Medical center.   He is dedicated to helping patients with chronic kidney disease live their best lives, and is honored to help advance the cause of home dialysis with this course.

Disclosures:
Employer: The Rogosin Institute
Honoraria: Fresenius (Ad board)
Advisory or Leadership Role: Fresenius home dialysis advisory board
Speakers Bureau: Astra Zeneca
Other: ASN Quality Committee

Dr. Miller is the Michael A. Kraus Clinical Professor of Medicine at Indiana University and the Kidney Service Line Leader for Indiana University Health Physicians. He leads clinical nephrology at 7 affiliated hospitals, multiple outpatient nephrology clinics and dialysis centers. Prior to arriving at Indiana University, Dr. Miller was a Professor of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis for over 2 decades where he was active in the kidney transplant program and director of home dialysis modalities. He has served as an investigator in many home dialysis trials, including the Frequent Hemodialysis Network Trial and the NxStage Medical Nocturnal Hemodialysis IDE study for the Food and Drug Administration.  He has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of of NxStage Medical and the Medical Advisory Board of Fresenius Kidney Care. He has been active in ongoing home dialysis education educational initiatives such as the Home Dialysis University, Advanced Renal Education Program, Annual Dialysis Conference and the American Society of Nephrology online curriculum. Many of his trainees and mentees have become clinical leaders in home dialysis therapy and is particularly interested in developing the next generation of leaders in home dialysis.

Disclosures:
Employer: Indiana University School of Medicine
Ownership Interest: All stock, no stock options. All positions < $20,000 and long; Centene Corporation; Emerson Electric; Toyota; Prologis; Ameren; Wisconsin Energy;
Honoraria: Walters Klower

Dr Jeffrey Perl is a staff nephrologist at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a prior recipient of The John Maher Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis and has received several teaching awards at The University of Toronto and St. Michael’s Hospital. His primary research interests, clinical practice  and teaching focuses on improving universal access to and clinical outcomes of home dialysis. Dr. Perl is a primary investigator in The International Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS) and co-principal investigator of the Optimizing the Prevention of Peritoneal Dialysis-Associated Peritonitis in The United States (OPPUS) study. He also co-chairs The American Society of Nephrology home dialysis steering committee and is previous chair of the ASN home dialysis subcommittee of the American Society of Nephrology COVID-19 response team. He is editor-in-chief of Peritoneal Dialysis International and recently co-chaired The KDIGO Home Dialysis Controversies Conference. He formerly served as chair of the ISN young nephrologists committee and co-chair of the ISN North American Caribbean regional board.

Disclosures
Employer: St. Michael’s Hospital
Ownership Interest: I-Ren
Consultancy: Baxter Health Care Canada; Bayer, Otsuka, Fresenius Medical Care, Davita Healthcare Partners, ; LiberDi; Astra Zeneca ; Otsuka, Outset Medical
Research Funding: Arbor Research Collaborative For Health; AHRQ
Honoraria: Baxter healthcare usa/canada ; Davita Healthcare partners; Fresenius Medical Care; DCI; , Astra Zeneca, US Renal Care,  Bayer Canada, Otsuka. Outset, US Renal Care, Innovative Kidney Care, Liberdi
Speakers Bureau: Baxter Healthcare; Fresenius Medical Care
Other Interests or Relationships: Salary Support: Arbor Research Collaborative For Health; AHRQ, Stipend ISPD, ASN

Dr. Matthew Rivara is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.  He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and completed a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by clinical and research fellowships in nephrology at the University of Washington.  He currently serves as Chief Medical Officer for Northwest Kidney Centers.  He is a member of the American Society of Nephrology Quality Committee, and is a core faculty for Home Dialysis University.  He is a member of the Education Committee for the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, and serves as a Council Member for the ISPD North American Chapter (NAC).  His research has focused on clinical and patient-reported outcomes for patients treated with maintenance dialysis, with a focus on home dialysis modalities.

Disclosures:
Employer: University of Washington; Northwest Kidney Centers
Honoraria: UpToDate, Inc,
Advisory or Leadership Role: Current: Chief Medical Officer – Northwest Kidney Centers; North American Chapter Council, International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis; Secretary, Non-Profit Kidney Care Alliance; Scientific Advisory Board Member, Byonyks, Inc. (stock options)
Other Interests or Relationships: National Kidney Foundation Project ECHO; Home Dialysis University

Dr. Anjali Bhatt Saxena, MD is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and Director of Peritoneal Dialysis at SCVMC in San Jose, California. Dr. Saxena completed her BS degree at Duke University and received her MD from Wake Forest University. She completed both her Internal Medicine Residency and Postdoctoral Nephrology Fellowship at Stanford University, and is board certified in Nephrology. Dr. Saxena has served as the Medical Director for an independent Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Clinic in San Jose, CA since 2004, overseeing a large PD clinic.

Dr. Saxena is devoted to sharing her home dialysis expertise through education worldwide. She has been a key faculty member of Home Dialysis University (HDU) since 2007, providing home dialysis education to hundreds of US Nephrology Fellows and Nephrologists at all levels of experience; in 2024 she became HDU Program Director. She serves on the ASN Home Dialysis Steering Committee and is a founding member of the International Home Dialysis Consortium (ISN-ISPD). She has delivered numerous invited lectures at international meetings and has published scholarly work on PD in various peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Saxena is dedicated to the growth of PD worldwide; she is the immediate past-Treasurer for the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) and Past-President of the N. American Chapter of ISPD. She is an Educational Ambassador for the ISN, and with colleagues has supported the growth of PD in low income areas of Sri Lanka.

Disclosures:
Employer: Stanford University / Santa Clara Valley Med Ctr
Honoraria: Vantive; Fresenius Medical Care; Akebia
Advisory or Leadership Role: Treasurer, International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) [Board of Directors], unpaid
Speakers Bureau: Baxter Healthcare; Fresenius Medical Care

Rebecca Kurnik Seshasai received her Bachelors of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She completed medical school and internal medicine residency at Tufts University in Boston, MA and her Nephrology fellowship as well as Masters in Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where she serves as Director of Home Dialysis Programs. She is a faculty member for Home Dialysis University. Her clinical, educational, and research focus is on home dialysis modalities.

Disclosures
Employer: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Compass; Clearco, Atria
Ownership Interest: Compass; Clearco; Sanderling
Consultancy: Atria

Dr. Shah is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Nephrology Fellowship Program Director, and Medical Director for Peritoneal Dialysis in the Davita North-Providence program in the Division of Kidney Disease and Hypertension at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is an expert in home dialysis (both PD and HHD) and the intersection of planetary health and kidney disease, areas in which he is well published and has lectured both nationally and internationally. His research is supported by NIGMS, AHRQ, Advance-CTR, Brown Physicians Inc, Rhode Island Life Science Hub, and the SURDNA Foundation. He is the lead editor of the 2024 text, Applied Home Hemodialysis, and currently serves as an associate editor for the Peritoneal Dialysis International. He is also a decorated educator having received numerous teaching awards at Brown and is a past winner of the American Society of Nephrology’s innovations in kidney education contest. He serves on various committees of the ASN, RPA, and ISPD including as Chair of the ISPD Early Career Committee and as a member of the ASN Policy and Advocacy Committee.

Disclosures
Employer: Brown Physicians Inc
Consultancy: Otsuka, Calliditas
Research Funding: AstraZeneca, CSL/Behring, Otsuka, Vertex, Vera
Advisory or Leadership Role: American College of Physicians Rhode Island Chapter Governors Advisory Council; American Society of Nephrology Policy and Advocacy Committee; Renal Physicians Association Government Affairs Committee; Renal Physicians Association Healthcare Payment Committee, International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis North American Chapter Public Policy Committee

Dr. Stern is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in Nephrology at the Chobanian and Avedisian Boston University School of Medicine. She has been active in medical student and resident education since 2011 and currently serves as the Director of the Integrated Renal Physiology and Pathophysiolgy PISCES course for first year medical students. She is also a Field Specific Advisor for fourth year medical students who are applying for residencies in Internal Medicine. She has previously served as an Associate Clerkship Director to the third year medical students in the Medicine 1 clerkship and as a core faculty member in the Internal Medicine Residency with a focus on curriculum innovation for residents.

Her clinical practice focuses on home dialysis therapies and she is the Medical Director of the Home Dialysis Program, which provides peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis for patients with end stage kidney disease. In addition, she is also attends on the renal consult service, dialysis and transplantation service, and sees patients in the general nephrology clinic. She has been teaching faculty in a number of national home dialysis courses and served on a number of committees through the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Stern received her B.S. with Honors in Zoology from the University of Florida, M.D. from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and M.P.H from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency, chief residency, and nephrology fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

Disclosures
Employer: Boston University School of Medicine
Advisory or Leadership Role: Lightline medical – Medical Advisory Board
Speakers Bureau: Baxter Inc
Other: Home Dialysis University