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Executive Officers

Fuad Shihab, M.D.

Fuad Shihab, M.D. 
University of Utah Medical Center
Salt Lake City, Utah

Dr. Fuad Shihab is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah where he is also the Medical Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Program. He joined the Board of Directors at AFDT in 2009. He served on a number of national committees in the field of transplantation and is currently Chair of the Conflict of Interest Committee of AST. He has chaired its Renal Fellowship Accreditation in addition to having been involved in its Kidney-Pancreas, Clinical Practice, Development and International accreditation committees. He also served on the Membership and Professional Standards committee of UNOS and the Transplant Advisory Group of ASN in addition to being on the Medical Advisory Board and the Clinical Research committee of NKF. In addition to his clinical duties, Dr. Shihab has research interests in nephrotoxicity of immunosuppressive drugs, chronic allograft nephropathy, living donation and outcome research.