Ana Maria Juana Cusumano
Argentina
Pioneer Award: Latin America
The ISN Pioneer Awards, restricted to individuals from non-high-income countries, honor the ‘unsung heroes’ of nephrology: doctors who have made extraordinary efforts to advance nephrology in a specific country or region.
Professor Ana María Cusumano is a consultant professor of medicine and director of the Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences Education at CEMIC University Institute in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Professor Cusumano graduated from the National University of Rosario, where she specialized in nephrology. She obtained a Ph.D. in Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. She has been a member of the ISN since 1991, serving on the ISN’s council and several committees, including the now-dissolved COMGAN and the Kidney Disease in Disadvantaged Populations Committee.
Within SLANH, Professor Cusumano has worked on various committees and has been involved in the Latin American Dialysis and Transplantation Registry since its creation and as its director from 2000 to 2012. She participates on several committees within the Buenos Aires Renal Association (BARA) and the Argentine Society of Nephrology. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Nephrology, Dialysis, and Transplantation (published in Spanish by BARA).
Professor Cusumano’s research focuses on the epidemiology and treatment of CKD and kidney failure.
Professor Cusumano will receive the 2025 Pioneer Award for Latin America at a regional meeting in 2025.