Amanda Hyre Anderson, PhD, MPH

Dr. Anderson is professor of epidemiology and medicine at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB); vice chair for research in the Department of Epidemiology at The UAB School of Public Health; codirector of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design unit of The UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science; and adjunct professor of epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and at Tulane University.

A renal and cardiovascular disease epidemiologist with over 20 years of experience conducting epidemiological research, with a specialty in chronic kidney disease, Dr. Anderson is an active ASN member, having just completed her fourth year on the Publications Committee.

Her leadership has spanned across research, academics, administration, and service. She has participated in more than 20 National Institutes of Health-funded research projects and training grants. She is a principal investigator (PI) for the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study Scientific and Data Coordinating Center. As contact PI for the George M. O’Brien Kidney Resource Alliance National Coordinating Center, she works with seven O’Brien Kidney National Resource Centers in support of kidney disease research nationwide. Dr. Anderson is also contact PI for a National Institutes of Health study investigating the gut microbiome and metabolome among a subset of participants in the CRIC study. She is also engaged in academic and administrative leadership at her university, serving on deans’ councils, research advisory councils, and the faculty council.

She has published in high-impact nephrology journals and leading general medicine journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Annals of Internal Medicine.