Dr. Ali Poyan Mehr is the Founding President of the GlomCon Foundation, a nonprofit charitable 501(c)(3) organization providing medical education and enabling platforms for kidney disease research. He completed his medical degree at Charité Universitätsmedizin in Berlin and postdoctoral research training at Yale University. Dr. Poyan Mehr completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in nephrology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

He is the Director of the Regional Glomerular Disease Program at Kaiser Permanente Northern California and Kaiser Permanente's Quality Lead for the National Kidney Care Services.

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Dr. Mehr's work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Chief Academic Officer’s Pilot Grants Program and the ASN Carl W. Gottschalk Research Scholar Grant, and he has published in high-impact journals.