The University of Sydney & Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Australia

Professor Meg Jardine is the Director of the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre (CTC), a flagship research organisation at the University of Sydney, and Director of CTC’s Kidney Health Research team. Her research focuses on reducing the progression and complications of non-communicable diseases – particularly kidney disease, diabetes and cardiovascular disease – through randomised trials and epidemiological analyses.

Professor Jardine is an Executive Committee member of the international nephrology guidelines body, KDIGO, and has contributed to Australian CARI guideline development. She contributes to policy setting and implementation through roles such as Board Member of the Kidney Health Initiative, a public-private collaboration of the American Society of Nephrology, and the US FDA. She advocates for kidney disease trials in roles with the Australasian Kidney Trials Network, the International Society of Nephrology Advancing Clinical Trials (ISN-ACTS) core committee, and the ANZSN Research Advisory Committee. Meg joined the CTC from The George Institute where she was Program Head of Innovation & Kidney Research. She is a practising nephrologist at Concord Repatriation General Hospital.