Prabir Roy-Chowdhury

Prabir is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension; Co-Director, UNC Kidney Center; and founding co-chair of the Kidney Health Initiative.

Dr. Roy-Chaudhury was also the founding American Society of Nephrology co-chair of the Kidney Health Initiative, which is a public-private partnership between the ASN and the FDA, which aims to bring together nephrologists, industry partners, patient advocacy groups and regulatory agencies; in an attempt to facilitate the passage of drugs, devices and biologics into the kidney disease space.

In 2019, he was elected to the ASN Council which is a nine-member apex leadership body for the American Society of Nephrology which has over 18,000 members.