Nancy Colobong Smith

Nancy Colobong Smith has worked in kidney care for more than 27 years and is a certified nephrology nurse.

She serves as a clinical nurse specialist and nurse practitioner for renal, dialysis and transplant at the University of Washington (UW) Medical Center. Her responsibilities include staff training in kidney replacement therapies, evidence-based care, continuing education and quality improvement. Ms. Colobong Smith is an affiliate instructor at the UW School of Nursing, volunteers at nurse camp for high school students and teaches community kidney education programs. She was the lead nurse for the first U.S. Food and Drug Administration trial of a wearable dialysis device.

Over the past decade, Ms. Colobong Smith has served on kidney care medical review boards, journal editorial boards and boards of directors. She is chair of the ESRD Network 16 board of directors and has been elected to serve as the 2024-2025 president of the American Nephrology Nurses Association.