Speaker

Joanne Bargman received her MD cum laude from the University of Toronto and pursued nephrology training at Stanford University. She has more than 900 invited lectures internationally on subjects as diverse as peritoneal dialysis, glomerulonephritis, and lupus. She is the Director of the Peritoneal Dialysis Program and co-director of the Combined Renal-Rheumatology Lupus Clinic for the University Health Network. She has won several lifetime achievement awards throughout her career, including the Donald Seldin Award for Excellence in Nephrology at the National Kidney Foundation (US), the 2015 Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Annual Dialysis Conference, and the International Distinguished Medal at the Spring Clinical Meetings of the National Kidney Foundation in 2016. In addition, she was the recipient of the Gabor Zellerman Award for Research and Excellence in Peritoneal Dialysis and the Robert Narins Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Nephrology. She is a deputy editor of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Bargman is co-author of the chapter “Chronic Kidney Disease” in the 17th-21th editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. She will be presenting her work on Day 3 of ICON 2022 at the Nephrology Session. She will be covering the topic “Challenges in the management of Resistant Lupus Nephritis.”