Participation in academic meetings is fundamental to a career in academic medicine. While it is often a privilege to attend conferences with departmental support as an attending physician, finding funding as a medical student, resident or fellow can be difficult. The ASPN Foundation is proud to provide opportunities for trainees to present their scientific abstracts at important national and international meetings in our field, broadening their exposure to pediatric nephrology concepts and issues and deepening their understanding of global pediatric nephrology concerns and opportunities.

Your tax deductible gift will make a direct impact on increasing trainee interest in Pediatric Nephrology and in enriching the quality of their education through enabling attendance and participation at the leading national and international meetings in our field.

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Leaders of professional societies such as the ASPN need a specific skill set to be able to negotiate the complex tasks of program development, personnel supervision, and dealing with outside constituencies and other organizations. These skills are also applicable to many other aspects of academic medicine and are commonly acquired after years of experience, perhaps also by specific training, or through trial and error. We believe that it is possible to intentionally develop future leaders of our Society by offering a leadership development curriculum. This program not only assists the ASPN in development of future leaders, but also gives the participants important skills that they will be able to utilize at their home institutions. Sessions emphasize individual leadership practices and take advantage of expertise from speakers from both industry and academia.

Each year, 12-15 ASPN members are awarded spots in this competitive leadership development program. The program is completed over an approximately one-year period and during 3 full-day sessions in conjunction with scheduled national meetings.

The Leadership Development Program costs more than $10,000 to administer each year, and participants pay nothing for the course. Your tax deductible gift would help ensure that this key stepping stone for emerging leaders in the field of Pediatric Nephrology will continue to be available to ASPN members for years to come.

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 In honor of the ASPN's 50th Anniversary, an archival history project was initiated. So far more than 60 past ASPN leaders have been interviewed. Capturing the wealth of information and insights of these pioneers in pediatric nephrology is of the utmost importance. A committee of ASPN members is working on an oral and written archive of the history of Pediatric Nephrology. Your contribution will enable this work to continue.

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The American Society of Pediatric Nephrology and its Foundation launched an initiative to honor H. William Schnaper, MD, Professor Pediatrics and Associate Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University with a named lecture to be presented at our annual meeting. Dr. Schnaper was an outstanding leader of our society and contributed greatly to the understanding of childhood glomerulonephritis, as well as factors that contribute to renal fibrosis.  He served as a distinguished leader of the ASPN and the International Pediatric Nephrology Association. The Schnaper lecturer will be selected each year to present a topic that recognizes an area of Bill’s interests.

Through the generous support of the ASPN community and Bill’s family our goal to raise a $150,000 endowment to fund this lectureship in perpetuity has been met.

It is a rare and exceedingly rewarding opportunity when a society can remember one of its most cherished members with a lecture in their name for perpetuity. The H. William Schnaper Endowed Lectureship will be part of all future ASPN Annual Meetings.  The memory of this wonderful leader in our field both nationally and internationally, will be acknowledged for all current and future pediatric nephrologists as an example of a dedicated and compassionate human being who touched us all in one way or another.