Tod Ibrahim is Executive Vice President of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), which represents more than 16,000 kidney care professionals in nearly 120 countries, and the ASN Foundation for Kidney Research. Prior to these positions, he was founding Executive Vice President of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, Director of Public Policy for the Association of Professors of Medicine, Director of Communications for Robert Betz Associates, and Staff Assistant for US Representative Thomas C. Sawyer (D-OH). A two-time recipient of George Washington University’s Jenny McKean Moore scholarship for poets, Tod has a master’s degree in liberal arts from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the author or coauthor of many articles, including “Overcoming Barriers in Kidney Health—Forging a Platform for Innovation”; “The Kidney Research Predicament”; “The Future Nephrology Workforce: Will There Be One?”; “The Impact of Increasing Medical School Class Size on Clinical Clerkships: A National Survey of Internal Medicine Clerkship Directors”; “Globalization: A New Dimension for Academic Internal Medicine”; “The Case for Invigorating Internal Medicine”; “Centers, Institutes, and the Future of Clinical Departments”; and “Developing a Strategy for Providing Federal GME Support.” Recently, Tod coauthored a chapter for the Guidebook for Clerkship Directors entitled “Understanding, Navigating, and Leveraging US Medicine.”

  Kidney Research, Internal Medicine