Prof Shilpanjali Jesudason (MBBS PhD FRACP FISN) is an academic nephrologist, Head of Department and Chair of the Clinical Research Group at the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s Central Northern Adelaide Renal and Transplant Service, South Australia. She is the founder and Program Lead for Pregnancy and Kidney Research Australia, co-leads the new ISN Train the Trainer Program for Pregnancy and Kidney Disease, and is the inaugural chair of the Australian and Zealand Dialysis and Transplantation Registry (ANZDATA) Parenthood working group. She is a founding co-chair of the ANZ Society of Nephrology Pacific Working Group, having had a strong interest in the development of Nephrology in Fiji. From 2017-2020 she was the Clinical Director of Kidney Health Australia, the peak body for patients with kidney disease, and she maintains a strong interest in consumer partnerships and advocacy. In 2025, she recieved International Society of Nephrology Roscoe R. Robinson Award which acknowledges outstanding achievements in the field of education in nephrology and medicine.