Laura Dember United StatesUniversity of Pennsylvania

Laura M. Dember, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine where she is a faculty member in the Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division and a Senior Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Dember conducts patient-oriented research in chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease and has particular interests in interventions to improve clinical outcomes for patients treated with maintenance hemodialysis. She has leadership roles in several multicenter observational studies and clinical trials including the Dialysis Access Consortium, the Hemodialysis Fistula Maturation Study, the Hemodialysis Novel Therapies Consortium, the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort study, the HOPE Trial, and the THRiVE trial, all funded by the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, as well as two large pragmatic trial demonstration projects of the NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory: the Time to Reduce Mortality in End-Stage Renal Disease Trial, and the HiLo Trial, and the PCORI-funded SMaRRT-HD trial. Dr. Dember has been a member of several committees of the American Society of Nephrology and previously served as Deputy Editor for the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.