Medicine
Dr Ali Abu-Alfa is a tenured Professor of Medicine, and Head of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He is the Director for the Human Research Protection Program at AUB, and for Research Affairs at AUB Medical Center. He joined AUB in 2010 after spending 2 decades at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, USA, and remains an Adjunct faculty member at Yale in the Section of Nephrology. He earned his MD degree from AUB in 1985, completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern in 1990 and a fellowship in Nephrology at Yale in 1993. He is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine-Nephrology, is a certified hypertension specialist (AHSCP) and a Fellow of the American Heart Association and member of its hypertension council. In December 2014, he launched and is serving as founding President of the Middle East Chapter of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis. He is currently the President for the Lebanese Society of Nephrology and Hypertension. He is the Chair of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN)-Middle East Regional Board, and is an ISN council member. He is also the deputy-Chair of the ISN Renal Disaster Preparedness Workgroup and a member of the Continuous Medical Education Committee of the ISN. He completed a 3 years term as member of the KDIGO Executive committee in Dec 2018. In addition to his strong engagement in regional and international nephrology circles, Dr Abu-Alfa’s continues to pursue his scientific interests in the areas of Peritoneal Dialysis, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), complex hypertension, Mineral and Bone Disorder in CKD, imaging issues in kidney patients including Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis and use of Gadolinium Based Contrast Agents. He is also very active in the sphere of research ethics, its regulatory and administrative frameworks, and protection of human subjects in research.