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Clinical Director | The Kidney Hub (Fiji)Dr Amrish Krishnan is a Nephrologist based in Fiji. He completed his undergraduate medical training in Fiji in 2006, and after serving in resource-constrained rural health centers, joined the Masters in Internal Medicine training program (Fiji National University), which he completed in 2013. Dr Krishnan then went on to train in New Zealand for two years, where he pursued his interest in Nephrology. He returned to Fiji in 2015, and through the support of the International Society of Nephrology’s Sister Renal Center program, became Fiji’s first vocationally registered Nephrologist. He helped establish dialysis for Acute Kidney Injury in Fiji’s Intensive Care Units in 2016, and in 2017 Dr Krishnan was appointed by the Government to design and establish Fiji’s first public system dialysis center. Dr Krishnan has spent the last 4 years working in the public system, and various private hospitals. He is currently the Clinical Director of The Kidney Hub, a specialty hospital that provides treatment to Fijians and Pacific Islanders with Chronic Kidney Disease and End Stage Kidney Disease. He has a passion for health advocacy and education, health leadership, and addressing the increasing burden of noncommunicable diseases in the Pacific. |