NKF awards Susan T. Crowley, MD, MBA, FASN, FNKF, with David M. Hume Award
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The National Kidney Foundation awarded Susan T. Crowley, MD, MBA, FASN, FNKF, with the David M. Hume Award, which is the highest honor given by the foundation to a scientist-clinician, according to a press release.
“I have worked closely with Dr. Crowley for many years and am thrilled that she is being recognized for all that she does for individuals with kidney disease, and particularly for her advocacy for the care of veterans with kidney disease,” Paul Palevsky, MD, president of the NKF, said in the release. “[I] can think of no one better to be named as this year’s winner.”
The award is given annually to a specialist in kidney and urologic diseases who exemplifies the “highest ideals of scholarship and humanitarianism in an outstanding manner,” according to the release.
Crowley is recognized for advancing kidney care through her work in renal replacement therapy and as the chief of the Veterans Health Administration (VA) renal section within medical services at VA Connecticut Healthcare System. She also serves on the data and safety monitoring board for an NIH-funded pragmatic trial in chronic kidney disease management and as co-principle investigator for the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases HOPE study, which examines novel chronic pain interventions for patients undergoing hemodialysis, according to the release.
In addition to advising VA executive leadership on national policy to improve practices in the care of veterans with kidney disease, Crowley established and leads the VA Nephrology Community of Practice Network, which is comprised of VA nephrology and dialysis nurse manager leaders from 125 VA facilities.
“I am deeply honored to accept the National Kidney Foundation’s David M. Hume Award and do so on behalf of the community of kidney health professionals in the [VA], which I am privileged to lead,” Crowley, professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and national program director for the VA Kidney Disease and Dialysis Program, said in the release. “Created to immortalize the humanism and scholarship of Dr. Hume’s life’s work as a kidney clinician-scientist, the award seems especially appropriate to share with my VA colleagues, who strive to optimize the kidney health of our nation’s veterans via patient-centered care and scientific discovery in kidney and urologic disease.”
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