KDIGO's plans to update the KTR GL: What has changed and what new topics to consider

Michelle Josephson is Professor of Medicine and Surgery at University of Chicago.  She serves as Director of Education for the Transplant Institute and Program Director of the Transplant Nephrology Fellowship.. After receiving her MD from University of Pennsylvania she completed a medical internship, residency and nephrology fellowship at University of Chicago.  In 1992 she founded the Transplant Nephrologiy Program serving as Medical Director till 2023 and in 2001 established the Transplant Nephrology Fellowship at University of Chicago.
Dr. Josephson was a member of the KDIGO international work group that wrote “Care of the Transplant Recipient Guidelines.”  She co-chaired KDIGO’s Controversies Conference on “Challenges in Management of the Kidney Allograft: From Decline to Failure.” She has particular interests in the live kidney donor, post-transplant bone disease, BK virus, and pregnancy in the transplant recipient. She served on the KDIGO Board of Councilors, was a Councilor on the American Society of Transplantation Board, and President of Women in Nephrology.   She currently serves as President of the American Society of Nephrology.