
The Irish Nephrology Society Team

Professor Donal Reddan
President
Professor Reddan is a Consultant Nephrologist and Honorary Professor at Galway University Hospitals.
A 1992 UCD graduate he completed BST training at SVUH Dublin and an Internal Medicine residency at AGH Pittsburgh prior to Nephrology and Biomedical Scholar fellowship at Duke University, Durham North Carolina where he also completed a masters in health sciences.
He joined the faculty at Duke University division of Nephrology and at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) before moving to his current position in Galway in 2003.
He is extensively published and is/has been involved in the design and implementation of a number of large clinical trials, in chronic kidney disease, CKD associated anemia and CKD associated cardiovascular risk.
Professor Reddan served as group clinical director for medicine for the SAOLTA Healthcare group x 5 years until February 2019 and is current group Nephrology lead. He is a longstanding council member, former vice president and recent treasurer of RCPI.

Dr. Sam Kant
Secretary
Sam Kant MD FRCPI FNKF FASN FACP is a Consultant nephrologist and Transplant physician at St. Vincent University Hospital, Dublin.
He was previously an Assistant Professor of Medicine and consultant nephrologist at Johns Hopkins University Hospital/School of Medicine, where he completed the majority of his postgraduate training.
He is the current deputy editor of American Society of Nephrology Kidney News and the Director of the Basic Specialist Senior House Officer training program at the St. Vincents University Hospital Group.

Dr. Sarah Moran
Secretary
Dr Moran is Consultant Nephrologist at Cork University Hospital.
Her subspecialty interests include glomerular diseases, vasculitis, and obstetric nephrology.
She trained in UCC, TCD and the University of Toronto. She was recently awarded a HRB emerging clinician scientist fellowship studying the role of urinary biomarkers in glomerular diseases.
