Leadership
 

Adeera Levin MD, FRCPC, is a Professor of Medicine at University of BC and the Executive director of the BC Provincial Renal, an organization which manages and co-ordinates the care of patients with kidney disease in the province of BC. She is the Senior advisor for the Kidney Research Scientist Core Education and National Training Program — KRESCENT Program. She is currently Chair of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), CKD Work group for the updated guidelines 2023. She is also the lead of the SPOR network Can SOLVE-CKD. Her research and clinical activities focus on chronic kidney disease, co morbidities associated with CKD mechanisms of disease and health outcomes research.
 
She is active in mentoring young investigators in kidney related research and holds numerous grants for clinical studies. She has received funding from peer reviewed organizations such as CIHR (Canadian Institute of Health Research), The Kidney Foundation of Canada, Michael Smith Foundation, and the Ministry of Health Services BC. In addition, she is the principal investigator on several studies investigator-initiated industry funded grants. She has received many teaching and research awards, and in 2015, was honoured with the Order of Canada.