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ASN Home Dialysis Steering Committee!/American Society of Nephrology

January 20, 2023

Date: January 13, 2023   Dear Dr. Bansal, On behalf of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), thank you for your participation as a member of the ASN Home Dialysis Steering Committee. During 2022, ASN asked that members of project steering committees and workgroups in Excellence in Patient Care be randomly assigned either a one- […]


Congratulations Dr. Shweta Bansal and Afaf Saliba on being honored for 2022 Women in Medicine Month

September 7, 2022

Dr. Shweta Bansal as a Professor/Physician and Afaf Saliba as a Graduate Student have both been recognized in Women in Medicine Month by the Long school inclusion office; making 2 out of 20 recognized physicians/professors/trainees in 2022 at UT Health San Antonio from the division of nephrology!    


Congratulations to Afaf Saliba, she was selected for a second year as a Translational Science Training Scholar!

August 25, 2022

Congratulations to Afaf Saliba, she was selected for a second year as a Translational Science Training Scholar! The TST TL1 Program is made possible through a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NIH/NCATS, TL1 TR002647). https://iims.uthscsa.edu/tl1_current_scholars.html TL1 Trainees | Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science – UTHSCSA TST […]



Congratulations to Afaf Saliba and Pragya SinghMalla for being selected as 2022 ASN Kidney STARS Award Recipients!

August 8, 2022

Congratulations to Afaf Saliba and Pragya SinghMalla for being selected as 2022 ASN Kidney STARS award recipients! Both Pragya and Afaf are Ph.D. candidates at the Center for Precision Medicine and are mentored by Dr. Kumar Sharma. They will each receive $1,000 USD in travel support and complimentary registration to the in-person Annual Meeting at […]