ISPD

The Finance Committee sets out to maintain a high standard in the financial management of the society, ensuring a sustainable financial future and increasing the opportunities to fund and support different initiatives to advance the objectives of the society.

The Finance Committee of the ISPD is accountable for:

1. Develop and Review the annual budget of the ISPD.
2. Review the accuracy of the unaudited financial reports of the society.
3. Assist the Treasurer in preparing the annual financial report to Council.
4. Provide oversight and, where appropriate, make recommendations to the Council on the following matters with regards to banking and investments:
   • Banking investments, revenue and expenditure.
   • Interest rates, exchange rates and other investment strategies.
   • Compliance with the applicable legislation, government directives and bylaws, as applicable.
5. Provide oversight, and where appropriate, review and make recommendations to Council on the financial implications of contracts and agreements, executed by the ISPD.
6. Provide oversight of the financial risk management and make recommendations to Council on the financial sustainability of the ISPD.

Chair: Anjali Bhatt Saxena (USA)

Dr. Anjali Bhatt Saxena, MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of Peritoneal Dialysis at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC) in San Jose, California. Dr. Saxena completed her Bachelors of Science degree at Duke University, received her MD from Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and completed both her residency and postdoctoral Nephrology fellowship at Stanford University.Dr. Saxena is heavily involved in teaching, both in her faculty role in the Stanford Nephrology Fellowship Program and on many other levels as she educates medical students, interns, residents and practicing Nephrologists. Since 2007 she has been a key faculty member of the Home Dialysis University Program (HDU), jointly sponsored by ISPD and Wake Forest University, and has delivered numerous invited lectures at meetings such as ASN-Kidney Week, the Annual Dialysis Conference, and ISPD conferences. She has peer-reviewed publications in the areas of clinical peritoneal dialysis and renal pathophysiology. Dr. Saxena is board certified in Nephrology and her clinical practice involves the chronic care of more than 100 dialysis patients and several hundred CKD patients. As Medical Director of Peritoneal Dialysis at the independent dialysis unit at SCVMC since 2004, she has led the PD clinic to achieve at least 10% growth yearly.

Dr. Saxena is committed to providing education and support for home dialysis therapies locally, nationally and internationally. She has joined several colleagues at Stanford University to nurture the growth of PD in emerging countries via the the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Sister Renal Center Program. Presently, she serves as an Educational Ambassador for emerging PD clinics in Sri Lanka, and she hopes to make more of an international contribution to the growth of PD in the future. Nationally, Dr. Saxena is the President-elect for the North American Chapter of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) and former Treasurer of the ISPD-NAC.

Committee Members

• Simon Davies (UK)
• Xue Qing Yu (China)
• David Johnson (Australia)
• Helen Hurst (UK)
• Kim Yap Hui (Singapore)
• Miguel Gallardo (ISPD Society Coordinator)

The committee will achieve this mandate by encouraging educational programs for peritoneal dialysis, providing training opportunities for doctors and nurses, coordinating with other international and national organizations, and establishing links with other philanthropic organizations.

In addition, the International Liaison Committee of the ISPD sets out to create sustainable partnerships that will help the society advance in its objectives.

The International Liaison Committee of the ISPD is accountable for:

1. Promoting the development of PD on a global scale in both developed and developing countries.
2. Providing assistance to countries/individuals trying to develop peritoneal dialysis programs by supporting appropriate training and education.
3. Providing links with other international nephrology organizations, such as the ISN, IPNA and EuroPD.
4. Working closely with the Saving Young Lives initiative to support the development of PD programs to treat patients with AKI. The ISPD council will, on the recommendation of the International Liaison Committee, appoint one representative from the ISPD to serve on the SYL steering committee.
5. Promoting collaboration with regional nephrology groups.
6. Promoting discussions on international issues involving peritoneal dialysis.
7. Partnering with other philanthropic organizations interested in dialysis care.
8. Setting up dialogue with nephrologists and other health care providers from developing countries concerning issues in setting up PD programs.
9. Working with the Scholarships and Awards Committee of the ISPD to encourage scholarship applicants from selected developing countries to promote the growth of PD.
10. Working with other committees of the ISPD to identify problem domains with PD utilization and growth internationally.

Chair: Fredric Finkelstein (USA)

Dr. Fredric Finkelstein is Chief of Nephrology at the Hospital of St. Raphael and Clinical Professor Medicine at Yale University. He has been active in peritoneal dialysis for the last 30 years. His active areas of peritoneal dialysis related research include the problems of technique failure of PD patients, the assessment of the quality of life of dialysis patients,

the impact of psychosocial factors on outcomes of PD patients, the impact of various cycling regimens on peritoneal dialysis clearances, the treatment of peritonitis, and the impact of CKD education programs of patient modality selection.Dr. Finkelstein is working to help establish and expand PD programs in developing countries, using educational programs, encouraging training of interested individuals, and working with other groups to provide financial and educational support.

Committee Members

• Philip Li (Hong Kong)
• Olof Heimbürger (Sweden)
• Isaac Teitelbaum (USA)
• Abdou Niang (Senegal)
• Rafael Alberto Gomez (Colombia)
• Adrian Liew (Singapore)

Small grants (USD$5000 to USD$10,000) have been awarded at the discretion of Council to help enable these projects, in the context of additional funding obtained by the researchers.

The International Studies Committee of the ISPD is accountable for:

1. Launching the call for research proposals during the last months of each calendar year.
2. Responding to all the questions from researchers interested in submitting a proposal.
3. Evaluating the research proposals and submitting an evaluation report to the ISPD Council including a recommendation for endorsement and, eventually, financial support for research proposals of meritocratic value.

Chair: Thyago de Moraes (Brazil) / Vice-chair: Mark Lambie (UK)

Committee Members

• Wim Van Biesen (Belgium)
• Yee Moon Angela Wang (Hong Kong)
• Scott Brimble (USA)
• Marwh Gassim M Aldriwesh (KSA)
• Yeoungjee Cho (Australia)

The Committee will maximize and optimize the appropriate usage of online platforms such as the website and our newsletters, including and not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube to disseminate information to support the objectives, goals and initiatives of the Society.

The Communication and Media Committee of the ISPD is accountable for:

1. Maintaining and regularly updating the capability of the website of the ISPD to optimally serve its objectives by using the latest relevant digital information technology.
2. Maintaining and updating the social media channels of the Society with relevant content, and assisting in the engagement of online discussions where necessary.
3. Assisting the ISPD Executive and the ISPD Society Coordinator to prepare a periodical newsletter.
4. Defining and supervising the implementation of a comprehensive national, regional and international digital communication plan. It will also oversee the marketing and public relation activities of the Society.
5. Highlighting ISPD activities and projects, and coordinating these activities through the website and social media channels.
6. Engaging ISPD registrants/members through regular surveys, discussions and forums.
7. Helping the ISPD main conference(s) to increase their impact and visibility through various communication channels, liaising with the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) and the ISPD office bearers/Committee chairs.

Chair: KS Nayak (India)

Dr K S Nayak is Senior Consultant in Nephrology at the Virinchi Group of Hospitals in Hyderabad, India. He runs a busy PD unit with training facility for nurses and nephrologists from other countries, in addition to taking care of a large volume of Hemodialysis, ICU and Kidney Transplant programs. He is an acknowledged world expert on remote monitoring of PD patients using an iPad/Tablet platform. His work has been lauded by the Harvard Business Review as an exemplar of ‘Reverse Medical Innovation’,suitable for implementation in developed economies. He is Director of clinical research at Vivo Bio, a leading animal farm facility, where he is involved in cutting edge translational work.
He has published extensively and delivered invited lectures worldwide especially at the World Congress of Nephrology, ISPD Congresses regularly, and is on the editorial board of several journals. He is the Chief Cordinator of the Asia Pacific Chapter of ISPD for the past decade and a past Councillor of ISPD.

Committee Members

• Mark Lambie (UK)
• Youngjee Cho (Australia)
• Nikhil Shah (Canada)
• Mayoor Prabhu (India)
• Ali Abu-Alfa (Lebanon)
• Martin Wilkie (UK)
• Thyago de Moraes (Brazil)
• Miguel Gallardo (ISPD Society Coordinator)

The Future Meetings Committee sets out to review the educational and advocacy needs for peritoneal dialysis across the various regions in the world, and ensure that all ISPD regions have equitable opportunities for hosting its scientific meeting.

The Future Meetings Committee of the ISPD is accountable for:

1. Solicit appropriate sites and the local societies for expression of interest in hosting the biennial scientific meeting of ISPD.
2. Engaging the sites and local societies in preparing the necessary bid materials and documents for the bidding exercise.
3. Reviewing the bid documents and shortlisting not more than 3 sites for presentation to the Council of ISPD for evaluation and decision.
4. Coordinating, where necessary, visits to potential sites by one representative from the Executives of ISPD and Future Meetings Committee respectively.
5. Coordinating the final bid presentation from the shortlisted sites to the Council of ISPD.
6. Subsequent communication between the selected site and the Council of ISPD.

Chair: Philip Kam-Tao Li (Hong Kong)

Prof. Philip Kam-Tao Li is the Chief of Nephrology & Consultant Physician of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at the Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH), Hong Kong. He is also the Honorary Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Carol & Richard Yu Peritoneal Dialysis Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prof Li was the President of the Organizing Committees for the 11th Congress of ISPD 2006 in Hong Kong and of the World Congress of Nephrology 2013 respectively. He is the Chairman of the Central Renal Committee of Hospital Authority of Hong Kong. He serves as the Vice President (Education) for the Hong Kong College of Physicians. He is the Co-Chair of International Steering Committee for World Kidney Day.
He has published over 470 original and review articles in peer-reviewed journals, 3 books and 20 book chapters. He has given lectures to over 150 international congresses and meetings. His research interests in PD include Residual Renal Function, Cardiovascular Disease, Connectology, Peritonitis, Biocompatible solutions and Adequacy.
He has won several awards including: Sir David Todd Award of the Hong Kong College of Physicians, Richard Yu Endowment Award of the Hong Kong Society of Nephrology, the Chief Executive’s Commendation for Community Service, HKSAR and the International Distinguished Medal 2012 of the National Kidney Foundation, USA

Committee Members

• Fiona Brown (Australia)
• Isaac Teitelbaum (USA)
• Peter Nourse (South Africa)
• Monika Lichodziejewski-Niemierko (Poland)
• Daniela Ponce (Brazil)

The committee will work with the Communications and Media Committee of the ISPD to enhance communications with its members, and to develop ways of increasing the sense of belonging of members to the ISPD.

The Membership Committee of the ISPD is accountable for:

1. Fostering affiliation with the ISPD by recommending suitable and practical benefits to its membership.
2. Developing, implementing and evaluating innovative initiatives in recruiting and retaining members, with emphasis on young physicians, academic practitioners and past members.
3. Monitoring and reviewing membership statistics for any adverse trends.
4. Promoting equitable distribution of memberships across different continents, healthcare economies and infrastructure.
5. Providing opportunities for networking amongst members via the online membership directory.
6. Working together with the Communications and Media Committee of the ISPD to ensure accurate and timely dissemination of important information to all members.

Chair: Xueqing Yu (China)

Professor of Medicine
Director, Institute of Nephrology
The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Director, Key Laboratory of Nephrology, Ministry of Health
Director, Key Laboratory of Nephrology, Guangdong Province

Committee Members

• Yasuhiko Ito (Japan)
• Rajnish Mehrotra (USA)
• Joanna Rowinska (Poland)
• Jose Carolino Divino Filho (Brazil)
• Ahmed Twahir (Kenya)
• Neil Boudville (Australia)
• Gillian Brunier (Canada)

Bylaws: Section 4-A-2 – Election of Council Members (as of 21 June 2008):

On behalf of the Council, a nominating committee shall submit a written list of candidates to the membership at least one hundred eighty (180) days before the General Assembly. Any Voting Member may then within sixty (60) days submit to the Secretary/Treasurer alternative nominees with a written brief resume of qualifications and verification of willingness to serve. This nomination must be supported by at least ten (10) Members of the Corporation. At least sixty (60) days before the General Assembly, a final written list of the nominees shall be sent to Voting Members.

The Nominating Committee of the ISPD is accountable for:

1. Submitting a written list of candidates to the membership at least one hundred eighty (180) days before the General Assembly.
2. Incorporating any alternative nominees submitted in the following 60 days with a written brief resume of qualifications and verification of willingness to serve. This nomination must be supported by at least ten (10) Members of the Society.
3. At least sixty (60) days before the General Assembly, a final list of the nominees shall be sent to Voting Members.
4. Conducting online elections in close collaboration with the Society Coordinator.
5. Announcing the election results at the ISPD Council meeting and General Assembly.

Chair: Joanne Bargman (Canada)

Joanne Bargman is a staff nephrologist at the University Health Network and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She received her MD cum laude from the University of Toronto. She was an exchange fellow in Melbourne for her senior medical residency year, and then pursued nephrology training at Stanford University. Her research focused on renal physiology and micropuncture. Upon returning to Toronto, she was recruited to the Toronto Western Hospital where she trained in peritoneal dialysis under Dimitrios Oreopoulos.She has more than 200 invited lectures internationally, on subjects as diverse as peritoneal dialysis, calciphylaxis, and management of glomerulonephritis. Currently she is Director of the Peritoneal Dialysis Unit and co-director of the Combined Renal-Rheumatology Lupus Clinic at the University Health Network. She has won faculty-wide teaching awards, at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels

Committee Members

• Fredric Finkelstein USA)
• Xiao Yang (China)
• Fadel Al-Rowaie (KSA)
• Fiona Brown (Australia)
• Magdalena Madero (Mexico)
• Ana Figueiredo (Brazil)
• Hui Kim Yap (Singapore)
• Thierry Lobbedez (France)

The Nursing Liaison Committee will also be the contact body for cooperation and collaboration with other nursing or allied health associations and projects.

The Nursing Liaison Committee of the ISPD is accountable for:

1. Encouraging nursing research and publications in the official journal of ISPD.
2. Promoting nursing membership in the ISPD within each country.
3. Providing an annual report of the committee’s activities to ISPD Council.
4. Attending committee meetings and ensuring representation at ISPD Council meetings.
5. Ensuring nursing representation across all groups/committees of the ISPD.
6. Providing the necessary advice or resources to ISPD membership with respect to nursing issues in peritoneal dialysis or nephrology.
7. Being the liaison to other ISPD committees in order to help them achieve their mandate.
8. Advising the ISPD congress organizers on the development of the nursing program and supporting the Nursing Chair of the ISPD Congress by recommending Nursing speakers, reviewing the scientific program, abstracts and providing guidance.
9. Disseminating information regarding different ISPD grants for nursing members in different countries, including ISPD fellowships and travel bursaries.
10. Involving allied health professionals including dieticians, renal pharmacists and social workers into the scientific program at the ISPD Congress.
11. Maintaining and updating nursing related contents on the ISPD website, to be in line with other ISPD educational activities.

Chair: Helen Hurst (UK)

Helen Hurst has worked in renal medicine for over 25 years working in all areas of renal nursing and community. Since 2000 she worked as an advanced nurse practitioner in the renal drop in service at Manchester Royal Infirmary. She was the clinical lead for peritoneal dialysis and involved in many initiatives to enhance the service. She has co-authored some of the ISPD guidelines for PD and published in areas of peritoneal dialysis.   She has been involved in research and completed a PhD in 2011 in patient experience of EPS but has collaborated on many research projects including more recently older people with advanced CKD. She is a regular reviewer for specialist and nursing journals. She has presented Nationally and Internationally at PD conferences. She is Vice President of the British Renal Society Education Committee. She has formulated a renal patient research group and is interested in patient involvement and collaboration in research. Her most recent appointment of Consultant Nurse for Older People and Frailty is a joint clinical and academic position within the Trust. She currently holds a post -doctoral fellowship within the Trust and honorary contract with the University of Manchester.

Committee Members

• Ana Figueiredo (Brazil)
• Miki Hiramatsu (Japan)
• Rachael Walker (New Zealand)
• Joanna Neumann (USA)
• Elaine Bowes (UK)
• Grace Ngaruiya (Kenya)

Chair: Bradley Warady (USA)

Dr. Bradley A. Warady is Senior Associate Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Chief of Nephrology and Director of Dialysis and Transplantation at The Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. Dr. Warady’s clinical and research focus is end-stage renal disease with particular emphasis on peritoneal dialysis. He established the Pediatric PD Study Consortium and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the North American Pediatric Renal Trial and Collaborative Studies (NAPRTCS). He currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the International Pediatric Peritoneal Dialysis Network (IPPN) and the multicenter, National Institutes of Health-funded Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) Study. He also currently conducts research projects on topics including: Intravenous Iron Therapy in Pediatric Patients Receiving Hemodialysis and Anemia Management of Children on Dialysis. He co-edited the books CAPD/CCPD in Children and Pediatric Dialysis and he has published more than 250 articles and book chapters. Dr. Warady has been a member of several clinical practice guideline writing committees for the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), and he recently co-chaired the NKF workgroup which published guidelines for the Nutritional Management of Children with CKD. Dr. Warady also serves as an Associate Editor for Peritoneal Dialysis International and he sits on the editorial board for Pediatric Nephrology.

Committee Members

The PDOPPS Committee of the ISPD is accountable for:

1. Engaging with Arbor Research to ensure a proper development of the cooperation activities in the framework of the PDOPPS programme.
2. Monitoring and reviewing study progress and priorities.
3. Monitoring and reviewing the adequacy of resources to meet study goals.
4. Ensuring that the views of stakeholder groups and the broader PD community are represented.
5. Ensuring that the project’s goals and accomplishments are communicated effectively to stakeholder groups and the broader PD community.
6. Reviewing and approving:
   • Country-level participation in the study
   • Scientific recommendations from the ISPD Working Groups
   • Procedural documents (such as policies for ancillary studies, data release, and publications)
   • Requests for ancillary studies and data release
   • Changes to the Steering Committee charter and membership
7. Courtesy review of manuscripts and abstracts.

Co-Chairs: Simon Davies (Canada) and David Johnson (Australia)

Committee Members

• Jeff Perl (Canada)
• Yee Moon Angela Wang (Hong Kong)
• Roberto Pecoits-Filho (Brazil)
• Ana Figueiredo (Brazil)
• Rajnish Mehrotra (USA)

The Publications Committee of the ISPD is accountable for:

1. Maintaining a fluid communication with the publisher of PDI.
2. Ensure that the contract with the publisher of the PDI journal is fulfilled.
3. At the end of the publishing contract, lead the process to renew the aforementioned contract or lead the process to select a new publisher.

Chair: Simon Davies (UK)

Committee Members

• Martin Wilkie (UK)
• Schaefer Franz (Germany)
• Sydney Tang (Hong Kong)
• Anjali Saxena (USA)
• Miguel Gallardo (ISPD Society Coordinator)

The ISPD Fellowship aims to promote the advancement of peritoneal dialysis by encouraging qualified individuals to extend their knowledge and expertise of peritoneal dialysis by visiting a PD training center for up to a maximum of 3 months.

The Scholarship and Awards Committee reviews the applications with respect to merit, appropriateness, facility to be visited, the supervising physician at the facility, and geographic distribution of applicants. Preference is given to promotion of peritoneal dialysis in developing countries.

The Scholarships and Awards Committee of the ISPD is responsible for:

1. Prepare the open call for candidature for the ISPD Fellowship program every semester, and follow up the process until the selection of the candidates.
2. Prepare and keep updated a list of PD centers of excellence. This will help the candidates of the ISPD Fellowship to find the best match for their training needs.
3. Prepare the open call for nominations for the ISPD awards and follow up the whole process until the selection of the awardee.
4. Develop transparent and meritocratic selection criteria for the awarding of fellowships and awards.
5. Present the proposed awardees to ISPD council for ratification.

Check all the information about the ISPD John Maher award and the ISPD Jonas Bergstrom award.

Chair: Roberto Pecoits-Filho (Brazil) / Vice-chair: Joanna Matuszkiewicz-Rowińska (Poland)

Committee Members

• Gillian Brunier (Canada)
• Ingrid Arce Faundez (Chile)
• Lily Mushahar (Malaysia)
• Brett Cullis (South Africa)
• Stephen Holt (Australia)

The Standards and Guidelines Committee sets out to increase the awareness and practice of peritoneal dialysis to medical practitioners and nephrologists involved in the care of patients with end-stage kidney disease through the creation of high quality Standards and Guidelines on peritoneal dialysis.

The Standards and Guidelines Committee of the ISPD is accountable for:

1. Identify key areas in peritoneal dialysis for guidelines development.
2. Develop the work plan for various guidelines development and update.
3. Appoint the necessary members of guidelines workgroups, and oversee the evidence review, guidelines development, and manuscript review process.
4. Develop the implementation plan of ISPD guidelines across the various regions of the ISPD.

Co-chairs: Edwina Brown (UK) and Javier de Arteaga (Argentina)

Professor Edwina Brown’s main research interests are peritoneal dialysis, dialysis outcomes in the elderly and renal palliative care. She was the principal investigator for FEPOD (Frail Elderly Patient Outcomes on Dialysis) comparing outcomes on assisted PD and haemodialysis with conservative care. She is currently working on a project integrating renal and elderly care and is starting a study Kidney Transplantation in Older People (KTOP). She organises an annual meeting on Renal Supportive Care and co-organises the UK PD Academy.
She has published extensively on peritoneal dialysis and dialysis in the elderly and is the author/editor of several books.

Committee Members

• Jeff Perl (Canada)
• Josephine Chow (Australia)
• Jie Dong (China)
• Adrian Liew (Singapore)