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Foreign member
Department of Medical Sciences
Membership of SASA
Foreign member since 7 November 2024
Field of study
Nephrology, gynaecology and obstetrics
Education
Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade: BSc (1980), MSc (1987), residency in obstetrics and gynaecology; McGill University in Montreal: MSc in medical genetics as a scholarship recipient of the Royal Victoria Hospital (1991); internal medicine residency (1997) and nephrology fellowship (1999).at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Career
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA (since 1999): associate professor (2008); full professor (2011); head of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension; director of the Mayo Clinic Centre for Clinical and Translational Science; dean for Clinical and Translational Science; vice-chairperson for research in the Department of Internal Medicine in charge of young researchers, women and minorities development; the Penske Foundation Named Professor of Clinical Medicine; visiting professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade (2010).
Membership of specialist associations
American Society of Nephrology, ASN
Member of the Managing Board of the National Centre for Advancing Translational Sciences, USA
Member of the Hypertension and Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease Science Committee of the American Heart Association, AHA
Ambassador for Education of the International Society of Nephrology, ISN
Membership of editorial boards
Editor-in-chief of Nephrology Reviews (since 2013)
Editor of Women’s Health and Medicine of Sex Differences and associate editor of the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings (since 2017)
Member of the editorial board of the journal Kidney International (since 2015)
Editor of Preeclampsia Section in Current Hypertension Reports (since 2013)
Editor-in-chief of Hypertension in Pregnancy (2015−2022)
Editor-in-chief of Pregnancy Hypertension (since 2024)
Awards and recognitions
Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) Isis Network Award (2011)
Mayo Clinic Lecturer of the Year Award (2012)
Mayo Clinic Award for Outstanding Contribution as a Clinic Medicine Doctor (2018)
Marvin Moser Clinical Hypertension Award from the AHA Council on Hypertension in 2022
American Society of Nephrology Barbara Murphy Life Achievement Award in 2024