Tod Ibrahim is Executive Vice President of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), which represents more than 21,000 kidney care professionals in 141 countries. Prior to this position, he was founding Executive Vice President of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, Director of Public Policy for the Association of Professors of Medicine, Director of Communications for Robert Betz Associates, and Staff Assistant for US Representative Thomas C. Sawyer (D-OH). A two-time recipient of George Washington University’s Jenny McKean Moore scholarship for poets, Tod has a master’s degree in liberal arts from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland at College Park.
A recipient of the President’s Award from the American Association of Kidney Patients, Tod is also a former President of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, a coalition of more than 50 societies representing over 800,000 US physician members. He is the author or coauthor of many articles, including “Stepping into the Void: Remunerating, Valuing, and Understanding Nephrologists”; “Maintenance of Certification, Self-Regulation, and the Decline of Physician Autonomy”; “Overcoming Barriers in Kidney Health—Forging a Platform for Innovation”; “The Kidney Research Predicament”; “The Future Nephrology Workforce: Will There Be One?”; “Globalization: A New Dimension for Academic Internal Medicine”; and “Centers, Institutes, and the Future of Clinical Departments.” Tod also coauthored a chapter for the Guidebook for Clerkship Directors entitled “Understanding, Navigating, and Leveraging US Medicine.”