Breaking the Waves: Navigating Opportunity & Growth in Nephrology
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Non-members tickets: $55
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About
Academic careers are often shaped not only by careful planning, but also by moments of disruption, uncertainty, and emerging need. From humanitarian crises and environmental disasters to evolving cancer therapies and global kidney health challenges, periods of change can create unexpected opportunities for innovation, leadership, and scholarly growth. Yet identifying and developing an academic niche within these spaces can feel uncertain, particularly early in one’s career.
Led by Dr. Sabine Karam, this session will explore how responding to unmet clinical and systems-level needs can help physicians build meaningful academic identities and professional impact. Drawing from her work in onconephrology, global kidney health, and resilient kidney care during crises, Dr. Karam will discuss how interdisciplinary collaboration, advocacy, education, and scholarship can intersect to create fulfilling and purpose-driven careers in nephrology.
What You’ll Learn
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- Explore how crises, healthcare challenges, and emerging clinical needs can become opportunities for academic niche development and scholarly impact
- Discuss practical approaches to identifying gaps in care, building collaborations, and translating operational or advocacy work into scholarship
- Learn strategies for developing a professional identity aligned with leadership, innovation, and purpose within modern nephrology
- Reflect on how women in nephrology can leverage periods of change and transition to expand influence, visibility, and career growth
Speaker
Sabine Karam, MD MS
Dr. Sabine Karam is an internationally recognized nephrologist whose academic niche has emerged at the intersection of onconephrology, global kidney health, and systems-based kidney care. Through a career shaped by complex clinical challenges, humanitarian crises, and multidisciplinary collaboration, she has developed expertise in kidney complications of cancer therapies, monoclonal gammopathies, and immune-mediated nephrotoxicity while also advancing scholarship in disaster preparedness, equity, and sustainable kidney care.
Her work reflects a modern model of academic career development in which emerging healthcare needs become opportunities for innovation, leadership, and scholarly impact. Dr. Karam has contributed to major international collaborations and consensus statements in onconephrology, leadership initiatives through the International Society of Nephrology, and global efforts focused on resilient kidney care during environmental and humanitarian crises. Her career highlights how physicians can build meaningful academic identities by responding to unmet needs, fostering interdisciplinary partnerships, and aligning scholarship with advocacy and systems change.
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