Prabir Roy-chaudhury MD, PhD, FRCP

Dr. Prabir Roy-Chaudhury MD, PhD, FRCP (Edin) is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. After graduating from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India, he trained in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. His main research interest is in dialysis vascular access and he currently directs the Dialysis Vascular Access Research Program at the University of Cincinnati.

This is a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary translational program focused on dialysis vascular access, which includes basic science research, clinical research and patient care. This translational research program is funded through the National Institutes of Health, the Veterans Administration research program and through industry grants. Dr. Roy-Chaudhury has published extensively in this area and has spoken on this subject in many different countries.

Dr. Roy-Chaudhury is also actively involved in the public policy and administrative aspects of dialysis vascular access care and hemodialysis as a board member/councilor for the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology, the Vascular Access Society of the Americas and the Renal Network (for OH, IN, KY, IL, PA and DE); and as a member of the Interventional Nephrology Advisory Group of the American Society of Nephrology.