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Membership Committee

Yong-Lim Kim (South Korea)

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Dr. Yong-Lim Kim is the Professor of Medicine and Director of the Nephrology Division at Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, South Korea. He is currently the Director of the Dialysis Quality Assurance Committee of Korean Society of Nephrology. He has served as Vice Director of the Regional Clinical Trial Center supported by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Korean Government. He received his MD summa cum laude in 1985 from Kyungpook University, Daegu. He was certified by the Korean Board of Nephrology in 1993 and studied in the post doctoral research fellowship at the University of Missouri, Columbia for one year in 1996. He has also served as the director of the PD unit which has more than 200 PD patients. His research interests include peritoneal fibrosis, long-term preservation of peritoneal membrane, solution biocompatibility and renal fibrosis.

He has published and co-authored over 90 papers among which about 30 have been published in international peer reviewed journals.

Mandate

Responsible for

  • Promoting new members in the ISPD and retaining current members
  • Enhancing communications with members
  • Finding out what members need
  • Increasing the sense of belongs of members

Membership

  • Seven members including the Chair and Deputy Chair representing at each six different continents.
  • Deputy Chair should be a member of the Council.

Committee Members

  • Yong-Lim Kim - Chairman, Korea, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  • Rajnish Mehrotra - Deputy Chairman, ( USA: North America), This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  • Salah Naga ( Egypt: Africa/M.East), This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  • Anabela Rodrigues (Portugal: Europe), This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  • Amit Gupta ( India: Asia), This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  • David Johnson ( Australia: Oceania), This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  • Ramon Paniagua (Mexico: Latin America), This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Goals

  • Foster affiliation with the ISPD by providing useful and relevant benefits
  • Develop, implement, and evaluate innovative ways to recruit and retain members, with a particular emphasis on young physicians, academic physicians, and past members
  • Review membership statistics and monitor any adverse trends.
  • Seek ways to expand the services and benefits available to members of the PD community as an enticement to membership in the ISPD
  • Attracting new members and retaining current members by fulfilling tailored demand from each continents
  • Provide opportunities for member networking via the Online Membership Directory
  • Relaying timely communications to the membership in regards to section-related issues via the ISPD Web site and other available resources

Contact Information

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Tel +82-53-420-5553
Fax +82-53-423-7583

 

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