About CET

CET Mission

To enhance the quality of life for people with kidney failure by engaging nephrologists as team leaders in transformational change that continuously improves the safety of life sustaining dialysis, specifically in the area of current and emerging bacterial, viral, and fungal threats which impact immunocompromised individuals with chronic kidney disease.

Current & Emerging Threats (C-ET) Steering Committee

Chair

  • Jeffrey Silberzweig MD, FASN The Rogosin Institute

Members

  • Ibironke (Ronke) Apata MD Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Kristina Bryant MD University of Louisville Physicians Novak Center for Children’s Health
  • Danilo (Dani) Concepcion CBNT, CCHT-A, FNKF St. Joseph Hospital
  • Debbie Cote MSN, RN, CNN, NE-BC Diality, Inc.
  • Danica Gomes MD, MS, MSc Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Michael Heung MD, MS, FASN University of Michigan
  • Jay Koyner MD, FASN University of Chicago
  • Vineeta Kumar MD, FASN University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Kathleen Liu MD, PhD, FASN University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine
  • Raj Munshi MD Seattle Children’s
  • Alicia Neu MD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Paul Palevsky MD, FASN University of Pittsburgh/VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
  • Jeffrey Perl MD St. Michael’s Hospital
  • Glenda Roberts Kidney Research Institute at the University of Washington
  • Deidre Sawinski MD Weill Cornell Medical College
  • Matthew Sinclair MD, FASN Duke University School of Medicine
  • Sarah Twichell MD, MPH University of Vermont
  • Anitha Vijayan MD, FASN Intermountain Healthcare
  • Daniel Weiner MD, MS, FASN (ASN Council Liaison) Tufts Medical Center

Staff Project Managers

  • Joseph Kessler MSN, RN, CPDN ASN Alliance for Kidney Health
  • Liz McNamara MS, RN ASN Alliance for Kidney Health