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Telephone: 212-812-4200; Fax: 212-812-4299.Global nephrology workforce: gaps and opportunities toward a sustainable kidney care system Mohamed A. Osman1 , Mona Alrukhaimi2 , Gloria E. Ashuntantang3 , Ezequiel Bellorin-Font4 , Mohammed Benghanem Gharbi5 , Branko Braam1 , Mark Courtney1 , John Feehally6 , David C. Harris7 , Vivekanand Jha8,9 , Kailash Jindal1 , David W. Johnson10,11,12,35, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh13, Rumeyza Kazancioglu14, Scott Klarenbach1 , Adeera Levin15, Meaghan Lunney16, Ikechi G. Okpechi17,18, Timothy Olusegun Olanrewaju19, Jeffrey Perl20,21, Harun Ur Rashid22, Eric Rondeau23,24, Babatunde Lawal Salako25, Arian Samimi1 , Laura Sola26, Irma Tchokhonelidze27, Natasha Wiebe1 , Chih-Wei Yang28, Feng Ye1 , Alexander Zemchenkov29,30, Ming-hui Zhao31,32,33,34 and Aminu K. Bello1,35 1 Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; 2 Department of Medicine, Dubai Medical College, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 3 Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Yaounde General Hospital, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon; 4 Division of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; 5 Urinary Tract Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Casablanca, University Hassan II of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco; 6 Department of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, University Hospitals of Leicester, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; 7 Centre for Transplantation and Renal Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 8 George Institute for Global Health India, New Delhi, India; 9 University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; 10Centre for Kidney Disease Research, University of Queensland at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; 11Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia; 12Department of Nephrology, Metro South and Ipswich Nephrology and Transplant Services (MINTS), Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; 13Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California, USA; 14Division of Nephrology, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey; 15Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 16Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; 17Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; 18Kidney and Hypertension Research Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; 19Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria; 20Division of Nephrology, St. Michael’s Hospital and the Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 21Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 22Department of Nephrology, Kidney Foundation Hospital and Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh; 23Intensive Care Nephrology and Transplantation Department, Hopital Tenon, Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France; 24Université Paris VI, Paris, France; 25Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan,