Dr. Timothy E. Bunchman is currently tenured professor and division chief, Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), USA. His primary departmental program area is pediatric nephrology. He is trained in pediatric nephrology from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His areas of expertise and interest are pediatric transplantation, acute kidney injury, renal replacement therapy and vasculitis. He has published papers in international journals and contributed chapters in books on pediatric nephrology and pediatric critical care. He has multiple awards to his credit and has been nominated by the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology to the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters (NACCD). He is on editorial board of many reputed international journals including Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Nephrology, and Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. He has also been an associate editor for American Journal of Kidney Diseases. He is the organizer and program director of the International Conference on Pediatric Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (PCRRT) endorsed by International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA) as well as the critical care section of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).