Mary Nigandi Kubo

Dr Mary Kubo is a physician, nephrologist, and lecturer in the Department of Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, where she has taught for more than ten years. She is also an honorary consultant at Kenyatta National Hospital, the country's largest public referral hospital. She completed her scholarship in Clinical Nephrology at the East African Kidney Institute and serves as the Academic Representative on the Kenya Renal Association Executive, where she chairs the Education Sub-Committee. She is a member of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and has previously received a competitive ISN travel grant to present her research on outcomes among HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients on maintenance haemodialysis. She serves on several national renal technical working groups and has contributed to developing renal guidelines in the country. She is passionate about research that will improve outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Sub-Saharan Africa, including early detection and interventions to delay CKD progression, improving access to life-saving vaccines for CKD patients, and integrating artificial intelligence-based screening and treatment algorithms to enhance CKD care.