Louis-Charles Desbiens
Canada
2025-2027 ISN-KI Editorial Fellow
ISN-KI Editorial Fellows are early–career professionals and academics working in the field of nephrology, dialysis, and transplantation, who work and learn with the Kidney International® editorial team for two years.
Dr. Louis-Charles Desbiens is a nephrology fellow at the Université de Montréal, in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. He is also completing the physician-scientist curriculum of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and will begin a PhD in epidemiology in fall 2025.
Dr. Desbiens completed his medical studies and a master’s in clinical epidemiology at the Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, followed by his internal medicine certification at the Université de Montréal. His current research interests center around outcomes of dialysis modality transitions, and the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease in people suffering from chronic kidney disease.
The ISN-KI Editorial Fellows will be recognized at the World Congress of Nephrology (WCN) in The ISN-KI/KIR Editorial Fellows Session: The Best of 2024/25 Articles, on Saturday, February 8, 2025, from 9:45-11:15 a.m.