Services

Committee Membership (LLU)

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

Committee Membership (non-LLU)

  • Associate Editor, Pediatrics Open Science Journal, American Academy of Pediatrics (07/2023 - 06/2025)
  • Chair, Nominations Committee, Section of Nephrology. American Academy of Pediatrics.  (09/2022 - 08/2023)
  • Member, Editorial Board, American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP Grandrounds Publication9-10 commentaries on most recent pediatric nephrology studies (04/2019 - Present)
  • Editorial Board member, American Academy of Pediatrics, PREP NEPHROLOGY (07/2017 - 06/2023)
  • CME Committee, International Society for Clinical Densitometry (05/2017 - 05/2021)
  • Community of Pediatric Practice, American Society of Transplantation (2015 - Present)
  • Genentech Pharmaceuticals, Nutropin CKD Advisory Panel CKD, Meeting held Philadephia, PA (11/2014)
  • Editorial Board, Section of Clinical Nephrology and Chronic Kidney Disease, Pediatric Nephrology Journal (Impact Factor 2011:  2.5) (07/2011 - Present)
  • UCLA, General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) Advisory Committee (07/1996 - 06/1998)
  • University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics,Osteoporosis Working Group (07/1998 - 06/2000)
  • University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics,National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health Advisory Committee (07/1998 - 06/2004)
  • Member, Institutional Review Board, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (07/2008 - 06/2010)
  • Faculty Senator, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (07/2008 - 06/2010)
  • Chair, Membership Committee, American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (07/2005 - 06/2006)
  • Membership Committee, International Society for Clinical Densitometry (07/2005 - 06/2006)
  • Membership Committee, American Society of Transplantation (07/2005 - 06/2008)
  • Member, ASPN Website Committee (07/2010 - 06/2013)
  • Member, ASPN Research Committee (07/2012 - 01/2019)

International Service

  • 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, Nephrology and Hypertension, Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 2017 (12/2016)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Kidney:Pediatrics, American Transplant Congress Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL,  April 29-May 3, 2017 (12/2016)
  • Abstract Reviewer. International Society for Clinical Densitometry Annual Meeting, Galway, Ireland, June 2016  (06/2016)
  • Moderator, Free Communications, 12th  Annual Symposium on Pediatric Dialysis. 21st Annual Dialysis Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 19-21, 2001 (02/2001)
  • Member, Pediatric Bone Initiative, Working Group on Chronic Pediatric Diseases and their Effect on Bone and Mineral Metabolism, ASBMR (07/2003 - 06/2004)
  • International Scientific Program Committee, Symposium on Growth in Renal Failure, International Pediatric NephrologyAssociation, Oviedo, Spain, May 28-30, 2009 (05/2009)
  • Chair, Communications/Website Committee, American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (07/2006 - 06/2010)
  • Moderator, Free Communication on Mineral Metabolism: Bone Disease, 40th  ASN Annual  Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 3, 2007 (11/2007)
  • Moderator, Concurrent Oral Session: Bone Acquisition and Pediatric Bone Disease II. ASBMR 30th Annual Meeting, Montréal, Québec, September 12-16, 2008 (09/2008)
  • 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)
  • International Scientific Program Committee, 15th Congress of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association, New York, NY,August 29- September 2, 2010 (07/2007 - 06/2010)
  • 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)

Journal Reviewer

  • Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1729-3228 2023: Pediatric Nephrology, 1 review   (05/2023) (link)
  • McMaster University. McMaster Online Rating of the Evidence (MORE).  2022: 4 articles rated 2023: 1 (04/2023)
  • Abstract Reviewer. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. Vancouver, Canada, October 2023 (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)
  • Reviewer. PLoS One Publication. 2021- (04/2021)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Bone Acquistion and Pediatric Bone Disorders, ASBMR Annual Meeting, Montreal, CAnada, September 2018 (09/2018)
  • Pediatric Nephrology (Impact Factor 2011: 2.5) (2011)
  • Cochrane Renal Group. Additional Contributor to the Renal Group Module.(Impact Factor 2009: 5.65) (2007)
  • Pediatric Nephrology (Impact Factor 2011: 2.5) (2011)
  • BMJ Publishing Group, McMaster Online Rating of Clinical Evidence (MORE), McMaster University (2008)
  • Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (Impact Factor 2011: 6.373) (2013)
  • American Journal of Physiology, Renal Physiology (2015)
  • Abstract Reviewer for the Category Parathyroid Hormone and Vitamin D, 35TH Annual Meeting of the American Societyof Nephrology (04/2002)
  • 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)
  • 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, Section on Organ Specific: Kidney, 5thInternational Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, April 18 – 21, 2009.  (04/2009)
  • 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)
  • Reviewer, PAS/ASPR Workshop proposals for the 2011 PAS/ASPR meeting, Denver, CO, April 30-May 3, 2011.  (05/2011)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Bone Acquisition and Pediatric Bone Disease, Annual ASBMR Meeting, San Diego, CA. September 16-20,2011. (09/2011)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Bone and Mineral Disease:Vitamin D or PTH (803). Annual Kidney Week Meeting, ASN, Philadelphia, PA, November 8-13, 2011. (11/2011)
  • 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)
  • 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, Kidney:Pediatrics, American Transplant Congress Annual Meeting, Phialdelphia, PA, May 2-6, 2015 (05/2015)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Kidney:Pediatrics, American Transplant Congress Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2016 (05/2016 - 12/2015)

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)