In the UK, he has been elected President of the Renal Association for the term 2012-2014. Dr Wheeler has served on the editorial boards of American Journal of Kidney Diseases and Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and is presently Co-Editor for Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. Consultant: Amgen; Astellas; Baxter; Merck Sharp & Dohme; Otsuka; Vifor Grant/Research Support: Abbott;* AstraZeneca;* Genzyme* Speaker: Abbott; Amgen; Astellas; Fresenius Medical Care; Genzyme; Otsuka; Shire *monies paid to institution EVIDENCE REVIEW TEAM Ashish Upadhyay, MD, is Assistant Professor, Renal Section and Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program at Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. Dr Upadhyay was previously Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and staff physician in the William B Schwartz, MD, Division of Nephrology at Tufts Medical Center. He joined the ERT in July 2009 and served as the Assistant Project Director for the KDIGO Management of Blood Pressure in CKD and Anemia in CKD Guidelines. In the role as lead project director for this guideline, Dr Upadhyay coordinated and assisted in the collection, evaluation, grading, and synthesis of evidence, and played a critical role in the revisions of the final evidence report. He also provided methodological guidance and training of Work Group members on topic refinement, key question formula- tion, data extraction, study assessment, evidence grading, and recommendation formulation. Dr Upadhyay s past research involved studying kidney disease epidemiology in the Framingham Heart Study. He has published in areas ranging from arterial stiffness in CKD and inflammation in kidney biographic and disclosure information disease to dialysis complications and epidemiology of hyponatremia. 