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Professor Grade I, Pediatric Nephrology
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English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu
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With 2 decades of experience in Pediatric Nephrology, my special interests include Chronic kidney disease, Chronic peritoneal dialysis, and Renal nutrition. I hold leadership positions in International Society of Nephrology (ISN) as Chair of the Clinical Research Committee, Lead for the Mentorship Program and Core group member of the ISN- WHO collaboration on Kidney failure.
Qualification/ Education
Fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology, Bangalore, India 2003
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London 2019
PhD in Pediatric Nephrology, 2023
Observership in Paediatric Nephrology:
Great Ormond Children’s Hospital, London (Nov-Dec 2003)
University of Minnesota, USA (April-May 2007)
Montreal Children’s Hospital, Canada (April-May 2010)
Areas of interest
Paediatric chronic kidney disease and Paediatric Renal Nutrition
Extramural portfolios/ Committees
National roles:
a. Convenor, Remote clinical research mentorship program, ISCR-ACCRI
b. Member, Fellowship committee, Indian Society of Paediatric Nephrology
c. Member, Consensus guidelines for UTI, ISPN
d. Member, Editorial Board, Indian Journal of Nephrology
e. Member, National Dialysis Committee, National Health Authority of India
International roles:
a. Chair, Clinical Research Program of the International Society of Nephrology
b. Lead, ISN Mentorship program
c. Subject Editor, ISN Academy
d. Working group member, ISN-WHO project on ESKD for LMICs
e. Executive member, South Asian Regional Board of the ISN
f. Convenor, Scientific Writing Course, International Society of Nephrology
g. Member, ISN-IPNA (International Society of Nephrology- International Paediatric Nephrology Association) webinar committee
h. Member, ISN – SYL (Saving Young Lives) Advisory Board
i. Editorial Board member, Frontiers in Paediatrics
j. Editorial Board member, Peritoneal Dialysis International
k. International Consensus Committee member, paediatric Acute Disease Quality Initiative (pADQI-2021)
l. Working group member, The ISN framework for developing dialysis programs in low resource settings. https://www.theisn.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ISN-Framework-Dialysis-Report-HIRES.pdf.
Institutional portfolios/ Committees
Institutional roles:
a. Member, OPD committee of the hospital
b. Convenor, case reporting on “Covid-related mucormycosis.”
c. Member, anti-ragging committee
d. Member, St John’s Creche committee
e. Member, Paediatric PG Curriculum, RGUHS
Membership of professional associations/bodies
Clinical expert for a Training module on Clinical pharmacology- an ICMR project
Awards and Recognitions
ISN-Recognitions:
- Recipient of the ISN CRP Grant 2010
- ISN R&P Appreciation Award WCN, Vancouver 2011
- Best ISN CRP Poster award, WCN Hong Kong 2013
- Best Paper award, Satellite meeting, WCN Hong Kong 2013
- Recipient of the Schrier Award, WCN Cape Town 2015
- Invited speaker, WCN Cape Town 2015
- Invited speaker, IPNA Venice 2019
- Invited speaker, ISN Frontiers meeting Delhi, 2022
- Invited speaker, WCN SYL course 2023, Bangkok
- Dr Arpana Iyengar has been elected to the Executive Board of the International Society of Nephrology. She is the first pediatric nephrologist to be elected to this governing board in the history of the ISN.
No groups and associations specified.
Rare Kidney Diseases: Children Being Left Out in the Cold
Iyengar A, Lanewala AA, Shirol PB, Pais P Kidney Care for All: Addressing the Gaps in an Imperfect World-A Global Perspective on Improving Access to Kidney Care in Low-Resource Settings
Pais P, Iyengar A Deciphering the mutation spectrum in south Indian children with congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract
Ambili Narikot 1, Varsha Chhotusing Pardeshi , A M Shubha , Arpana Iyengar , Anil Vasudevan Scaling Up Peritoneal Dialysis in India: A Sustainability Perspective Using the Program Sustainability Assessment Tool
Vivekanand Jha , Arpana Iyengar, Vijay Kher, Sandeep Mahajan, Narayan Prasad, Vasundhara Raghavan, Manisha Sahay, Krishnaswamy Sampathkumar Inferior Vena Cava/Aorta Diameter Index for the Evaluation of Intravascular Volume Status in Children with Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome
Saha A, Anila AP, Pavan KV, Iyengar A, Vasudevan A Potassium-enriched salt substitutes: supporting global cardiovascular and kidney health
Kathy Trieu, Martin H de Borst, Tammy M Brady, Mogamat-Yazied Chothia, Laura K Cobb, David J Cohen, Arpana Iyengar, Valerie Luyckx, Bruce Neal, Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Ifeoma Ulasi, Ewout J Hoorn Gut microbiota-targeted therapies in pediatric chronic kidney disease: gaps and opportunities
Iyengar A, Ramadass B, Venkatesh S, Mak RH Body cell mass estimation by whole body potassium counter and its association with protein energy wasting in Indian children with chronic kidney disease
Iyengar A, Kuriyan R, Selvam S, Bhat KG, Vasudevan A, Kurpad AV Nutrition Compass: Guiding Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Across Ages
Sukanya Govindan, Arpana Iyengar, Subashri Mohanasundaram, P S Priyamvada WCN25-1982 Assessment Of Muscle Strength And Its Association With Quality Of Life In Children With Chronic Kidney Disease
Shruthi V, Iyengar A, Sambashivaiah S, Selvam S Women in Nephrology-India: A Vision for the Future
Urmila Anandh, Manisha Sahay, Priti Meena, Divya Bajpai, M Swarnalatha, Arpita Ray, Arpana Iyengar, Manjusha Yadla Nutritional profile and infection-related hospital admissions in children with chronic kidney disease
Sravani M, Selvam S, Iyengar A International equity in access to home dialysis
Arpana Iyengar, Robert Kalyesubula, Rasha Darwish, Valerie A Luyckx Structured training initiative (STI) for caregivers of children on peritoneal dialysis: a prospective study of the impact on the rate of peritonitis
Kamath N, Lobo S, Joseph S, Iyengar A Assessment of Dietary Acid Load in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease: An Observational Study
Madhileti Sravani, Sheeba Collins, Arpana Iyengar Capacity for the management of kidney failure in the International Society of Nephrology South Asia region: report from the 2023 ISN Global Kidney Health Atlas (ISN-GKHA)
Eranga Wijewickrama, Muhammad Rafiqul Alam, Divya Bajpai, Smita Divyaveer, Arpana Iyengar, Vivek Kumar, Ahad Qayyum, Shankar Prasad Yadav, Manjusha Yadla, Silvia Arruebo, Aminu K Bello, Fergus J Caskey, Sandrine Damster, Jo-Ann Donner, Vivekanand Jha, David W Johnson, Adeera Levin, Charu Malik, Masaomi Nangaku, Ikechi G Okpechi, Marcello Tonelli, Feng Ye, Dibya Singh Shah, Narayan Prasad; Regional Board and ISN-GKHA Team Authors Infection-Related Glomerulonephritis in Children and Adults
Arpana Iyengar, Nivedita Kamath, Jai Radhakrishnan, Blanca Tarragon Estebanez Nutrition Management for Chronic Kidney Disease: Differences and Special Needs for Children and Adults
Robert H Mak, Arpana Iyengar, Angela Yee-Moon Wang Pediatric AKI in the real world: changing outcomes through education and advocacy—a report from the 26th Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) consensus conference
Theresa Mottes, Shina Menon, Andrea Conroy, Jennifer Jetton, Kristin Dolan, Ayse Akcan Arikan, Rajit K Basu, Stuart L Goldstein, Jordan M Symons, Rashid Alobaidi, David J Askenazi, Sean M Bagshaw, Matthew Barhight, Erin Barreto, Benan Bayrakci, O N Bignall Ray 2nd, Erica Bjornstad, Patrick Brophy, Jennifer Charlton, Rahul Chanchlani, Andrea L Conroy, Akash Deep, Prasad Devarajan, Dana Fuhrman, Katja M Gist, Stephen M Gorga, Jason H Greenberg, Denise Hasson, Emma Heydari, Arpana Iyengar, Catherine Krawczeski, Leslie Meigs, Catherine Morgan, Jolyn Morgan, Tara Neumayr, Zaccaria Ricci, David T Selewski, Danielle Soranno, Natalja Stanski, Michelle Starr, Scott M Sutherland, Jordan Symons, Marcelo Tavares, Molly Vega, Michael Zappitelli, Claudio Ronco, Ravindra L Mehta, John Kellum, Marlies Ostermann; ADQI 26 workgroup Evidence-based clinical practice guideline for management of urinary tract infection and primary vesicoureteric reflux
Pankaj Hari, Jitendra Meena, Manish Kumar, Aditi Sinha, Ranjeet W. Thergaonkar, Arpana Iyengar, Priyanka Khandelwal, Sudha Ekambaram, Priya Pais, Jyoti Sharma, Madhuri Kanitkar & Arvind Bagga on behalf of Indian Society of Pediatric Nephrology Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
Vivekanand Jha1 ; Sandeep Mahajan; Manisha Sahay; Arpana Iyengar; Vijay Kher; Gopesh Modi; Swaranjeet Kaur Gill; Anant Kumar Jha; Vikram Singh; Ranjeet Nair; Vivek Kumar; Vishal Golay; Mukta Mantan; Natarajan Ramakrishnan; Narayan Prasad; Ramesh Chandrababu; R.K. Sharma; George Abraham Nutrition-Focused Physical Examination for Detecting Protein Energy Wasting in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease
Iyengar A, Collins S, Ashok JMR, Vasudevan A Changes in bone biomarkers in response to different dosing regimens of cholecalciferol supplementation in children with chronic kidney disease
Kamath N, Iyengar A, Reddy HV, Sharma J, Singhal J, Ekambaram S, Uthup S, Selvam S, Wan M, Rahn A, Christiane-Fischer D, Shroff R Clinical characteristics, genetic profile and short-term outcomes of children with primary hyperoxaluria type 2: a nationwide experience
Sudarsan Krishnasamy, Bobbity Deepthi, Nivedita Kamath, Arpana Iyengar, Christy Cathreen Thomas, Susan Uthup, Anshuman Saha, Georgie Mathew, Indira Agarwal, Karalanglin Tiewsoh, Nowneet Kumar Bhat, Kausik Mandal & Sriram Krishnamurthy Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in children: a report from the 26th Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) consensus conference
Scott M. Sutherland, Rashid Alobaidi, Stephen M. Gorga, Arpana Iyengar, Catherine Morgan, Emma Heydari, A. Ayse Akcan Arikan, Raj K. Basu, Stuart L. Goldstein, Michael Zappitelli & the ADQI 26 Workgroup 5056 Access Nutrition in Children With Chronic Kidney Disease: How to Thrive?
Robert H. Mak, Arpana Iyengar, Wai Ming Lai, Louise McAlister, Eduardo A. Oliveira, Hong Xu, Hui Kim Yap, Rukshana Shroff Early recognition and prevention of acute kidney injury in hospitalised children
Cal H Robinson, Arpana Iyengar, Michael Zappitelli Assessment of Dietary Phosphorus Intake and Implementation of Parental Phosphate Education in Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease
Rehna K Rahman, Annie Mattilda, Arpana Iyengar WCN23-0633 COMPARISON OF OVERHYDRATION STATUS WITH AMBULATORY BLOOD PRESSURE IN STABLE CHILDREN ON CHRONIC PERITONEAL DIALYSIS- A PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
S. REDDY∗, A. Iyengar Troublesome Teeth, Search for Stones – Enamel-Renal Syndrome
Reddy, Soumya; Arumugam, Niranjana1; Iyengar, Aparna Infection related glomerulonephritis
H Seeger, A Kistler, N Kamath, A Iyengar Urinary Track Infections
Jha V, Mahajan S, Sahay M, Iyengar A, Kher V, Modi G Glomerulonephritis
Jha V, Mahajan S, Sahay M, Iyengar A, Kher V, Modi G, et al Infections that affect the kidney (Nonviral)
Iyengar A, Koch V TINKER-ing with neonatal acute kidney injury
Iyengar A, Shroff R Consensus-Based recommendations on priority activities to address acute kidney injury in children
Goldstein SL, Akcan-Arikan A, Alobaidi R, Askenazi DJ, Bagshaw SM, Barhight M, et al Access to dialysis for acute kidney injury in Low-Resource settings
Cullis B, Da Silva VC, McCulloch M, Ulasi I, Wijewickrama E, Iyengar A Population pharmacokinetics and dose optimisation of colecalciferol in paediatric patients with chronic kidney disease
Wan M, Green B, Iyengar AA, Kamath N, Reddy HV, Sharma J, et al Protein Energy Wasting in Children With Chronic Kidney Disease and End-Stage Kidney Disease: An Observational Study
Iyengar A, Raj JM, Vasudevan A Body Fat in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease - A Comparative Study of Bio-impedance Analysis with Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry
Iyengar A, Kuriyan R, Kurpad AV, Vasudevan A Clinical profile and outcome of arteriovenous fistulae in children on maintenance hemodialysis from a low-resource setting
Kamath N, Naik N, Iyengar A No Others Contributions details available.