John A. Kellum is a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rinaldo Bellomo is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Intensive Care Research at Melbourne University in Melbourne, Australia. Claudio Ronco is a Professor of Clinical Nephrology and Medicine and Director of the Department of Nephrology at St. Bortolo Hospital in Vicenza, Italy.

Sean M. Bagshaw, MD, MSc
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Division of Critical Care Medicine
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada

Ian Baldwin, RN, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Deakin and RMIT Universities
Austin Health
Melbourne, Australia

Ilona Bobek, PhD
Budapest, Hungary

Jorge Cerdá, MD, MS, FACP, FASN
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Albany Medical College
Albany, New York

Lakhmir S. Chawla, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Washington, District of Columbia

William R. Clark, MD
Senior Medical Director
Renal Medical Affairs
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Deerfield, Illinois

Dinna N. Cruz, MD, MPH
Department of Nephrology
Dialysis and Transplantation
Ospedale San Bortolo
International Renal Research Institute Vicenza
Vicenza, Italy

Nigel Fealy, RN, MN, ACCCN
Department of Intensive Care
Austin Hospital
Melbourne, Australia

Kevin W. Finkel, MD, FACP, FASN, FCCM
Professor and Director of Renal Diseases and Hypertension
University of Texas Health Science Center
Houston Medical School
Houston, Texas

Francesco Garzotto, PhD
San Bortolo Hospital
Department of Nephrology
Dialysis and Transplantation
International Renal Research Institute of Vicenza
Vicenza, Italy

Dehua Gong, MD
Research Institute of Nephrology
Jinling Hospital
Nanjing University
Nanjing, China

Zhongping Huang, PhD
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Widener University
Chester, Pennsylvania

Sandra L. Kane-Gill, PharmD, MSc, FCCP, FCCM
Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics
Faculty, School of Pharmacy
Center for Critical Care Nephrology
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


Joseph E. Kiss, MD
Institute for Transfusion Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jeffery J. Letteri, BS
Director
Baxter Healthcare Renal Division
Nantucket, Massachusetts

Michael L. Moritz, MD
Division of Nephrology
Department of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Raghavan Murugan, MD, MS, FRCP
Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Clinical and Translational Science
Department of Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mitra Nadim, MD
Department of Medicine
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Mauro Neri
International Renal Research Institute of Vicenza
San Bortolo Hospital
Vicenza, Italy

Paul M. Palevsky, MD
Chief of Renal Section
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Professor of Medicine and Clinical and Translational Science
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Zaccaria Ricci, MD
Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS
Rome, Italy

Ayan Sen, MD, MSc, FACEP, FCCP
Consultant and Assistant Professor of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Phoenix, Arizona

Kai Singbartl, MB, ChB, PhD, FRCA, FFA(SA)
Department of Anesthesiology
Penn State College of Medicine
Hershey, Pennsylvania

Frederick Tasota, RN, MSN
UPMC Presbyterian
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Aditya Uppalapati, MD
Department of Medicine
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, Missouri

Gianluca Villa, MD
International Renal Research Institute of Vicenza
San Bortolo Hospital
Vicenza, Italy
Department of Health Sciences
Section of Anesthesiology
University of Florence
Florence, Italy

Kimberly Whiteman, DNP, RN
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Co-Director Graduate and Professional Studies Nursing Programs
Waynesburg University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Adrian Wong, PharmD
Resident
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Alexander Zarbock, MD
Department of Anaesthesiology
Intensive Care and Pain Medicine
University Hospital Münster
Münster, Germany

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