Charuhas V. Thakar, MD, FASN
Citation: Kidney News 16, 10/11
Dr. Thakar is director of the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine in the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He has more than 2 decades of administrative and leadership experience in complex health care environments, including governmental, nonprofit, academic, and private sectors. He served as the Robert G. Luke Endowed Chair in Nephrology and director of the Division of Nephrology at the University of Cincinnati from 2013 to 2023 and was also chief of the renal section at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center from 2005 to 2024.
Dr. Thakar is internationally recognized for his research related to acute kidney injury and progression of chronic kidney disease. His research has been funded by the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and other research foundations. His work has been published in top peer-reviewed journals in nephrology and more general medicine.
He currently serves the National Kidney Foundation on its Scientific Advisory Board and as editor-in-chief of Advances in Kidney Disease and Health. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of several other organizations, including the Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund, Fresenius NxStage critical care, and the Dialysis Clinic, Inc. He served as a member of the ASN Acute Kidney Injury Advisory Group.
Dr. Thakar received his medical degree from Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College, University of Pune, India. He then completed a residency in internal medicine at Yale University, followed by a clinical and research fellowship in nephrology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He also completed an executive leadership program in managing health care delivery at Harvard Business School.
