Amy Dwyer, MD, MS, FASN, FASDIN is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of Interventional Nephrology in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology. She attended Michigan State University for her undergraduate education where she obtained her Bachelor’s in Science in Physiology and subsequently graduated in 1999 from Wayne State Medical School in Detroit, Michigan. She completed her internship, internal medicine residency and nephrology fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2004 in Charleston, South Carolina. Within her fellowship, she completed an additional fellowship in interventional nephrology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She joined the faculty at UofL in 2004 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. She was promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine in 2010 and to Professor in 2014. Dr. Dwyer developed the interventional nephrology program at UofL which is now recognized as a center of excellence for patient care, teaching, and research. The center is one of only five academic centers in the nation that have achieved Accreditation by the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN). She is an active member of the ASDIN serving on numerous committees and as an elected Council Member for fifteen years. She has served as Secretary/Treasurer from 2024-2026 and is currently serving as the President-Elect and also as Chair of the ASDIN International Outreach Committee. Due to her longstanding, dedicated service to the ASDIN, she was awarded their highest honor for service, the ASDIN “Distinguished Service Award” in 2023. UofL has recognized her efforts in national service by awarding her the “Research Scholarship and Creative Activity Award” in 2023. Her research focus has been in the field of interventional nephrology. Her research collaboration with the bioengineering department with Dr. El-Baz and his team has led to the development of new technology, Computer Aided Diagnostic System for Classifying Kidneys. The team has numerous peer-reviewed publications and has been issued three US Patents related to their work. UofL has recognized the team’s research efforts by awarding them the UofL “EPIC Inventor Award” in 2019 and 2021 and the “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award” in 2023. In addition to a robust clinical and research career, Dr. Dwyer has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences more than sixty times. She is also a busy mother of two teenage boys that attend Saint Xavier High School and two rescue dogs Hank and Merle.