Course Director

Faculty information for the 2023 course is not yet available.

Harvard Medical School Continuing Education attracts the best and brightest faculty from all around the world. As a student in this course, you’ll have access to outstanding course directors and faculty. 

Course Planners

David E. Leaf MD, MMSc

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Clinical and Translational Research in Acute Kidney Injury and Associate Physician, Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Anil Chandraker, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation and Physician, Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Elizabeth I. Buchbinder, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Naoka Murakami, MD, PhD
International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Designated Speaker

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Janewit Wongboonsin, MD

Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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2022 Faculty

Joseph Bonventre, MD, PhD
Samuel A. Levine Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Renal Medicine and Founding Chief, Division of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Ilya Glezerman, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Associate Clinical Member, Renal Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Caron Jacobson, MD, MMSc

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Director, Immune Effector Cell Therapy Program, Department of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Benjamin L. Laskin, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Chief, Division of Nephrology and Attending Physician, Kidney Transplant and Dialysis Program and Cancer Survivorship Program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Sheron Latcha, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Associate Clinical Member, Renal Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Nelson Leung, MD

Consultant, Division of Nephrology & Hypertension and Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
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Bradley McGregor, MD

Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Clinical Director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Department of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Omar Nadeem, MD 
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School 
Senior Physician, Clinical Director Immune Effector Cell Therapy Program, Clinical Director. Center for Prevention of Progression 
Associate Director, Myeloma Clinical Research Program,  Dana Farber Cancer Institute 
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Mark Perazella, MD, FASN

Director, Acute Dialysis Unit
Medical Director, Yale Physician Associate Program
Medical Director, Yale PA Online Program
Nephrologist, Section of Nephrology, Department of Medicine
Professor of Medicine (Nephrology), Yale University School of Medicine
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Helmut Rennke, MD

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Director, Renal Pathology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Mitchell Rosner, MD, MACP

Chair, Department of Medicine
Henry B. Mulholland Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine
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Umut Selamet, MD

Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Meghan Sise, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Onco-Nephrology, Nephrology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Astrid Weins, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Pathologist, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Biruh Workeneh, MD, FASN

Director of Dialysis, Section of Nephrology
Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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