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Top experts by indication / Nephrology

Most active experts in Chronic Kidney Disease

2026 edition, data as of October 26, 2026

638 key opinion leaders in the directory are tagged to Chronic Kidney Disease. The tables below rank them by one public measure each: registered trials, citations, NIH awards and congress contributions. Each is a count from a named source, not a judgment about the person, and every row links a profile where the count can be checked.

Most registered trials

Registered clinical trials in this indication on which the person is a listed investigator, counted from ClinicalTrials.gov. 140 of the 638 people tagged to this indication have this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov.

#Experttrials
1Geoffrey BlockU.S. Renal Care, CO11 trials
2Jing ChenUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX9 trials
3Rajiv AgarwalIN8 trials
4Rajiv AgarwalRichard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, TX8 trials
5Navdeep TangriMA6 trials
6Latonya HicksonFL5 trials
7Srinivasan BeddhuHuntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, UT5 trials
8Jeanie ParkGA4 trials
9Sarah SchraubenPA4 trials
10Baback RoshanravanUniversity of California, Davis, WA4 trials
11Jonathan HimmelfarbIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY4 trials
12Elaine KuUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA4 trials
13Mark UnruhUniversity of New Mexico School of Medicine, NM4 trials
14Thomas NickolasWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO4 trials
15Kamyar Kalantar-ZadehCA3 trials
16Paul DrawzUniversity of Minnesota, MN3 trials
17Diana JalalUniversity of Iowa, IA3 trials
18Matthias KretzlerUniversity of Michigan, MI3 trials
19Jennifer FlytheUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC3 trials
20Jessica KendrickUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, CO3 trials
21Glenn ChertowStanford University School of Medicine, CA3 trials
22Susan FurthChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), PA3 trials
23Linda FriedUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA3 trials
24Sharon MoeIndiana University School of Medicine, IN3 trials
25Orlando GutierrezUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), AL3 trials

Most cited

Citations to the person's whole published record in OpenAlex, not only their work in this indication, among the people with at least two registered trials in it. 35 of the 638 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: OpenAlex.

#Expertcitations
1Glenn ChertowStanford University School of Medicine, CA109,191 citations
2Csaba KovesdyUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center, VA71,251 citations
3Jonathan HimmelfarbIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY49,202 citations
4Matthias KretzlerUniversity of Michigan, MI48,281 citations
5Rajiv AgarwalRichard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, TX45,260 citations
6Sankar NavaneethanBaylor College of Medicine, OH44,855 citations
7Susan FurthChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), PA42,185 citations
8Lynnette NiemanNational Institutes of Health, MD36,293 citations
9Robert TotoUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX33,663 citations
10David KandzariPiedmont Heart Institute, GA29,091 citations
11Sharon MoeIndiana University School of Medicine, IN24,407 citations
12Michel ChoncholUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, CO23,586 citations
13Geoffrey BlockU.S. Renal Care, CO23,163 citations
14David CharytanNYU Langone Health, NY22,973 citations
15Orlando GutierrezUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), AL20,261 citations
16Sylvia RosasJoslin Diabetes Center, MA17,655 citations
17Jing ChenUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX17,224 citations
18Mark UnruhUniversity of New Mexico School of Medicine, NM16,894 citations
19Adriana HungVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN13,942 citations
20Laura DemberUniversity of Pennsylvania, PA13,259 citations
21Deidra CrewsJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD12,259 citations
22Srinivasan BeddhuHuntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, UT12,063 citations
23Thomas NickolasWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO10,993 citations
24Latonya HicksonFL8,441 citations
25Jennifer FlytheUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC8,222 citations

Most NIH awards

NIH awards on the person's record in NIH RePORTER, across all of their funded work, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 34 of the 638 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: NIH RePORTER.

#Expertawards
1Robert TotoUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX22 awards
2Sharon MoeIndiana University School of Medicine, IN15 awards
3Kamyar Kalantar-ZadehCA14 awards
4Matthias KretzlerUniversity of Michigan, MI14 awards
5Orlando GutierrezUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), AL13 awards
6Michel ChoncholUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, CO10 awards
7Glenn ChertowStanford University School of Medicine, CA10 awards
8Srinivasan BeddhuHuntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, UT10 awards
9Jessica KendrickUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, CO9 awards
10Elaine KuUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA9 awards
11Jeanie ParkGA7 awards
12Kalani RaphaelHuntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, UT7 awards
13Rajiv AgarwalIN6 awards
14Deidra CrewsJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD6 awards
15Kerri CavanaughVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN6 awards
16Susan FurthChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), PA6 awards
17Laura DemberUniversity of Pennsylvania, PA6 awards
18Sarah SchraubenPA5 awards
19Jennifer FlytheUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC5 awards
20Sylvia RosasJoslin Diabetes Center, MA5 awards
21David CharytanNYU Langone Health, NY5 awards
22Paul DrawzUniversity of Minnesota, MN4 awards
23Adriana HungVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN4 awards
24Ana RicardoUniversity of Illinois, IL4 awards
25Latonya HicksonFL3 awards

Most congress contributions

Congress abstracts and presentations attributed to the person and verified by DOI, across every meeting the directory tracks, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 15 of the 638 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 15 highest are listed. Source: Congress abstracts, DOI-verified.

#Expertcontributions
1Lynnette NiemanNational Institutes of Health, MD39 contributions
2Matthias KretzlerUniversity of Michigan, MI10 contributions
3Glenn ChertowStanford University School of Medicine, CA6 contributions
4Robert TotoUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX6 contributions
5Csaba KovesdyUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center, VA4 contributions
6David CharytanNYU Langone Health, NY4 contributions
7Mark UnruhUniversity of New Mexico School of Medicine, NM3 contributions
8Diana JalalUniversity of Iowa, IA2 contributions
9Geoffrey BlockU.S. Renal Care, CO2 contributions
10Kerri CavanaughVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN2 contributions
11Orlando GutierrezUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), AL2 contributions
12Jennifer FlytheUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC1 contribution
13Ana RicardoUniversity of Illinois, IL1 contribution
14Baback RoshanravanUniversity of California, Davis, WA1 contribution
15Thomas NickolasWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO1 contribution

Emerging

22 of the 638 carry the Emerging flag: publication and trial activity rising over the recent three years, in the top ten percent for growth among specialty peers at a similar career stage. Listed A to Z, not ranked; the flag is a yes or nothing, never a score. How the flag is computed.

Dinesh ChatothFresenius Medical Care, GA
Vipul ChitaliaBoston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, MA
Seth FurgesonDenver Health Medical Center, CO
Nasrollah GhahramaniPennsylvania State University, PA
Koyal JainUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Jason KiddVirginia Commonwealth University, VA
Sheng KuoNew York Hospital Queens, NY
Dustin LeThomas Jefferson University, PA
Michael LipkowitzGeorgetown University, DC
Roy MarcusPA
Samer MohandesChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
Salim MujaisSumitomo Dainippon Pharma, IL
Subodh SaggiSUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, NY
Ankit SakhujaIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY
William SmoyerNationwide Children's Hospital, OH
Robert StarNational Institutes of Health, MD
Michelle StarrIndiana University Indianapolis, IN
Joseph VassalottiNational Kidney Foundation, NY
Kavitha VellankiLoyola University Medical Center, IL
Anuradha WadhwaLoyola University Medical Center, IL
Erica WinnickiUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA
Susan ZiolkowskiStanford University School of Medicine, CA

How these tables are computed

The cohort is every profile in the directory tagged to Chronic Kidney Disease, from the person's registered trials and published research. Only indications with at least 200 tagged people get a page; a smaller cohort would say more about the tag than about the people in it. Each table sorts the cohort by one count, highest first, with no weighting, no blending and no editorial pass. Ties are broken by the profile's stable internal id so the same counts always give the same order. A person with no count on record is left out of that table, not ranked last.

Citations, NIH awards and congress contributions are counts over a person's whole record, not their work in this indication alone, so those three tables are limited to the indication's investigators: people with at least 2 registered trials in it. Without that rule the most cited people in a cohort are the ones whose careers span many diseases, which is a fact about their careers, not about this field. The registered-trials table is the indication-scoped count itself and has no such limit.

The counts are recomputed on every publish and the page carries the date of the publish it was built from. Previous editions are superseded, not archived.

What is deliberately absent

Reported industry payments are on every profile but are not a table here: a count of payers is a fact, and ranking people by it reads as a judgment. Prescribing volume is part of the paid workspace. The directory's influence tier is a judgment and never orders a public page. Sources and methodology.

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