President
Lodovico Balducci, MD
Vice President/President Elect
Richard K. Spence, MD
Immediate Past President
Allen R. Nissenson, MD, FACP
Secretary/Treasurer
Andrew Artz, MD, MS
At-Large Members
Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM, FCCP
William B. Ershler, MD
Members
Inder Anand, MD, FRCP, DPHIL
Jeffrey S. Berns, MD
Richard D. Brasington, Jr., MD
Paul W. Crawford, MD
Arnold J. Friedman, MD
Daniel E. Furst, MD
Wayne Levy, MD
Janet B. McGill, MD
Lillian M. Nail, PhD, RN, FAAN
Jerry L. Spivak, MD
Lloyd P. Van Winkle, MD
Bradley A. Warady, MD
Roslyn Yomtovian, MD
Allen R. Nissenson, MD, FACP
Immediate Past President
Development Task Force Chair
Chief Medical Officer
DaVita, Inc.
Specialty: Nephrology
Allen R. Nissenson is the Chief Medical Officer for DaVita, Inc., the largest independent dialysis services provider in the United States. Until 2008, Dr. Nissenson was a Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean for Special Projects and Director of the Dialysis Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He was recruited to UCLA in 1977, where he developed a comprehensive dialysis program with significant components including administration, patient care, teaching, and research. Dr. Nissenson is the immediate past president of the National Anemia Action Council (NAAC).
Dr. Nissenson has served as Chair of the Southern California End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network during its organizational years in the early 1980s, and is now serving as President. He has long been involved in issues of health care delivery, and has consulted for the Rand Corporation and Pacificare on the development of capitation models for ESRD used in a seminal HCFA Demonstration Project in this area.
Dr. Nissenson served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow of the Institute of Medicine in 1994-5, working in the office of the late Senator Paul Wellstone. He has served as President of the Renal Physicians Association, the national organization of nephrologists concerned with socioeconomic and clinical practice issues in nephrology, and remains on the Board of Directors as Counselor. He has served as a member of the Advisory Group overseeing the entire Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF-DOQI), as well as serving as a member of the anemia work group.
Dr. Nissenson is the author of two dialysis textbooks, both in their fourth editions and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy, an official journal of the National Kidney Foundation. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Hemodialysis International the official journal of the International Society for Hemodialysis, as well as Medscape Nephrology, an innovate website focused on nephrology. He has over 340 publications in the field of nephrology, dialysis, anemia management, and health care delivery and policy. Among his numerous honors is the President’s Award of the National Kidney Foundation. In 2007 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Hemodialysis presented by the University of Missouri on behalf of the Annual Dialysis Conference.