Dr. Roslyn Bernstein Mannon is a Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Microbiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Vice-Chair for Academic Development and Research Mentoring, and Associate Chief of Nephrology for Research. Dr. Mannon is a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Transplantation. She received her MD from Duke University, completed an Internal Medicine internship, residency, and Nephrology fellowship, and is Chief Resident at Duke. Her career includes serving as Medical Director for the Kidney/Pancreas NIDDK intramural transplant program at the Birmingham VA Medical Center and as Section Chief of Transplant Nephrology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Dr. Mannon is a past president of the AST and is a Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Transplantation. She is the chair of Women in Transplantation, an initiative of the Transplantation Society, chair of the Policy and Advocacy Committee of the American Society of Nephrology, and co-chair of the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Review Committee. Dr. Mannon's laboratory research focuses on mechanisms of chronic graft injury using in vitro and rodent models and is funded by the Veterans Administration Merit Award. She has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed publications on the mechanisms of chronic allograft failure following transplantation, post-transplant complications, therapeutics, and immune monitoring.
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