Peter Kotanko, MD, is Research Director at the Renal Research Institute (RRI), New York. Prior to joining RRI, from 1997 to 2007 he served as vice chair of a department of internal medicine at an academic teaching hospital in Graz, Austria. Prior to moving to Graz in 1989, he worked from 1982 to 1989 in the Department of Physiology and the University Clinic of Internal Medicine in Innsbruck, Austria. From 1995 to 1996 he trained in nephrology at the Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

Ohnmar Thwin was born in Yangon, Burma. She received her medical degree from the Institute of Medicine, Yangon, Burma, and her MPH degree from Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. Ohnmar served as a senior health training officer for the nternational Rescue Committee providing chronic disease prevention education, as well as empowering and helping to rebuild the lives of refugees affected by violent conflict and disasters. 

Xiaoling (Janice) Ye, MPH, PhD, is a Principal Research Scientist at Renal Research Institute. Janice holds a B.E. Degree in Pharmaceutical Engineering from the University of Traditional Medicine in Guangzhou, China, Master’s Degree in Epidemiology from Tulane University in New Orleans, and PhD, in Medical Science and Nephrology from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. She has over 8 years of experience in traditional and advanced data analytics, research, and epidemiology in the health care industries, in both academic and industry settings. 

Hanjie joined RRI in 2014. She received a master’s degree in statistics from Columbia University, New York, and a PhD in medical science from the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. Hanjie has been involved in the design of several large cluster-randomized clinical trials and complex statistical analyses in collaboration with the Medical Office, FMCNA...