Services

Committee Membership (LLU)

  • Medical Director, Clinical Trial Center, Loma Linda University Medical Center (04/2019 - 05/2022)
  • Member, Department of Pediatrics Research Task Force, Grant Reviewer, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA (07/2014 - 06/2015)
  • Member, Pediatric Program Evaluation Committee (Present)

Committee Membership (non-LLU)

  • Chair, Nominations Committee, Section of Nephrology. American Academy of Pediatrics.  (09/2022 - 08/2023)
  • Editorial Board member, American Academy of Pediatrics, PREP NEPHROLOGY (07/2017 - 06/2023)
  • CME Committee, International Society for Clinical Densitometry (05/2017 - 05/2021)
  • Member, ASPN Research Committee (07/2012 - 01/2019)
  • Genentech Pharmaceuticals, Nutropin CKD Advisory Panel CKD, Meeting held Philadephia, PA (11/2014)
  • Member, ASPN Website Committee (07/2010 - 06/2013)
  • Faculty Senator, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (07/2008 - 06/2010)
  • Member, Institutional Review Board, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (07/2008 - 06/2010)
  • Membership Committee, American Society of Transplantation (07/2005 - 06/2008)
  • Membership Committee, International Society for Clinical Densitometry (07/2005 - 06/2006)
  • Chair, Membership Committee, American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (07/2005 - 06/2006)
  • University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics,National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health Advisory Committee (07/1998 - 06/2004)
  • University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics,Osteoporosis Working Group (07/1998 - 06/2000)
  • UCLA, General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) Advisory Committee (07/1996 - 06/1998)
  • Member, Editorial Board, American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP Grandrounds Publication9-10 commentaries on most recent pediatric nephrology studies (04/2019 - Present)
  • Community of Pediatric Practice, American Society of Transplantation (2015 - Present)
  • Editorial Board, Section of Clinical Nephrology and Chronic Kidney Disease, Pediatric Nephrology Journal (Impact Factor 2011:  2.5) (07/2011 - Present)

International Service

  • Abstract Reviewer. Rare Bone Disease. 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Toronto, Canada, September 2024. (05/2024 - 04/2024)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Bone Acquisition and Pediatric Bone Disorders category, American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, September 9-12, 2022 (05/2022 - 06/2022)
  • Abstract Reviewer,  Pediatric Nephrology category, Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Dever, CO, May 2022 (01/2022)
  • Abstract Reviewer, International Society for Clinical Densitometry Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, April 2017 (01/2017)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Kidney:Pediatrics, American Transplant Congress Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL,  April 29-May 3, 2017 (12/2016)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Nephrology and Hypertension, Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 2017 (12/2016)
  • Abstract Reviewer. International Society for Clinical Densitometry Annual Meeting, Galway, Ireland, June 2016  (06/2016)
  • Moderator (Invited) Concurrent Oral Session 19: Osteocyte Biology and Phosphate Metabolism. 15th IPNA Congress, New York, New York, August 28-Sept 2, 2010. (08/2010)
  • International Scientific Program Committee, 15th Congress of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association, New York, NY,August 29- September 2, 2010 (07/2007 - 06/2010)
  • Chair, Communications/Website Committee, American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (07/2006 - 06/2010)
  • International Scientific Program Committee, Symposium on Growth in Renal Failure, International Pediatric NephrologyAssociation, Oviedo, Spain, May 28-30, 2009 (05/2009)
  • Moderator, Mini-symposium entitled Local Regulation of Growth Plate Metabolism in Renal Failure. 8th Symposium on Growth  and Nutrition in Children with Chronic Renal Disease. International Pediatric Nephrology Association, Oviedo, Spain, May 28-30, 2009. (05/2009)
  • Moderator, Concurrent Oral Session: Bone Acquisition and Pediatric Bone Disease II. ASBMR 30th Annual Meeting, Montréal, Québec, September 12-16, 2008 (09/2008)
  • Moderator, Free Communication on Mineral Metabolism: Bone Disease, 40th  ASN Annual  Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 3, 2007 (11/2007)
  • Member, Pediatric Bone Initiative, Working Group on Chronic Pediatric Diseases and their Effect on Bone and Mineral Metabolism, ASBMR (07/2003 - 06/2004)
  • Moderator, Free Communications, 12th  Annual Symposium on Pediatric Dialysis. 21st Annual Dialysis Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 19-21, 2001 (02/2001)
  • Member, Editorial Board. Pediatrics Journal. American Academy of Pediatrics. July 1, 2024- June 30, 2027. (07/2024 - 07/0000)

Journal Reviewer

  • Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1729-3228 2023: Pediatric Nephrology, 4 reviews 2024: Pediatric Nephrology, 2 reviews   (05/2024) (link)
  • Abstract Reviewer. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. Vancouver, Canada, October 2023 (04/2023)
  • McMaster University. McMaster Online Rating of the Evidence (MORE).  2022: 4 articles rated 2023: 1 (04/2023)
  • Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1729-3228 Publons: Web of Science. ResearcherID: AAF-6973-2020 2022 Review (Pediatric Nephrology Journal): 3   (12/2022) (link)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Bone Acquistion and Pediatric Bone Disorders, ASBMR Annual Meeting, Montreal, CAnada, September 2018 (09/2018)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Kidney:Pediatrics, American Transplant Congress Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2016 (05/2016 - 12/2015)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Kidney:Pediatrics, American Transplant Congress Annual Meeting, Phialdelphia, PA, May 2-6, 2015 (05/2015)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Bone and Mineral Disease:Vitamin D or PTH (803). Annual Kidney Week Meeting, ASN, Philadelphia, PA, November 8-13, 2011. (11/2011)
  • Reviewer. PLoS One Publication. 2021- (04/2021)
  • American Journal of Physiology, Renal Physiology (2015)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Bone Acquisition and Pediatric Bone Disorders, American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, September 12-15, 2014 (09/2014)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Clinical: Kidney-Pediatrics, The American Transplant Congress, joint annual meeting of the American Society of Transplantation and American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Seattle, WA, May 18-22, 2013 (05/2013)
  • Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (Impact Factor 2011: 6.373) (2013)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Bone Acquisition and Pediatric Bone Disease, Annual ASBMR Meeting, San Diego, CA. September 16-20,2011. (09/2011)
  • Reviewer, PAS/ASPR Workshop proposals for the 2011 PAS/ASPR meeting, Denver, CO, April 30-May 3, 2011.  (05/2011)
  • Pediatric Nephrology (Impact Factor 2011: 2.5) (2011)
  • Pediatric Nephrology (Impact Factor 2011: 2.5) (2011)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Section on Other Disorders of Bone and Mineral Metabolism including chronic kidney disease, ASBMR 31st Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, September 11-15, 2009.  (09/2009)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Section on Organ Specific: Kidney, 5thInternational Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, April 18 – 21, 2009.  (04/2009)
  • BMJ Publishing Group, McMaster Online Rating of Clinical Evidence (MORE), McMaster University (2008)
  • Abstract Reviewer for the Category Other Disorders of Bone and Mineral Metabolism, 29th  Annual Meeting of the American Society forBone and Mineral Research, September 16-19, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii (09/2007)
  • Cochrane Renal Group. Additional Contributor to the Renal Group Module.(Impact Factor 2009: 5.65) (2007)
  • Abstract Reviewer for the Category Mineral Metabolism: Bone Disease, 40th ASN Annual Meeting, October 31-November 4, 2007, San Francisco, CA (11/2004)
  • Abstract Reviewer for the Category Parathyroid Hormone and Vitamin D, 35TH Annual Meeting of the American Societyof Nephrology (04/2002)
  • Abstract Reviewer. Nephrology. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting. Honolulu, HI. April 24-28, 2025. (11/2024)
  • Abstract Reviewer. Pediatric Kidney Transplant. World Transplant Congress. San Francisco, CA. August 1-5, 2025. (03/2025)
  • Chair/Abstract Reviewer.  Basic and Translation Category. Pediatric Bone Disorders, Bone Acquisition and Bone Health in Special Population. American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. September 2025.  (05/2025)
  • Abstract Reviewer. Late Breaking Abstract. World Transplant Congress. San Francisco, CA, August 1-5, 2025.  (04/2025)

Society Memberships (professional)

  • American Society of Pediatric NephrologyAmerican Society of NephrologyAmerican Society for Bone and Mineral ResearchAmerican Society of TransplantationSociety for Pediatric ResearchInternational Society of NephrologyInternational Pediatric Nephrology AssociationInternational Pediatric Transplant AssociationInternational Society for Clinical Densitometry (Present)