Richard Lafayette, MD, FACP, associate professor of medicine (nephrology) and director of the Stanford Glomerular Disease Center, has been appointed the next Editor-in-Chief of ASN Kidney News.

Lafayette’s appointment was announced in January by the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), which publishes Kidney News. ASN President Sharon M Moe, MD, FASN, said in a statement: “The American Society of Nephrology is excited to welcome Richard Lafayette as Editor-in-Chief of Kidney News, Over the past six years, Kidney News has quickly established itself as a leader in communication about advances important to ASN members and the patients they serve.”  Lafayette succeeds Pascale Lane, MD, the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Kidney News, who guided the publication since its creation in 2008.

Lafayette received his medical degree from New York Medical College in 1985 and joined Stanford as a fellow in 1992. Throughout his 25-year career, Lafayette’s research has focused on general nephrology, transplant nephrology and glomerular diseases. He has served as senior associate chair of medicine for six years and clinical chief of nephrology for more than a decade, and he was a member of the first Kidney News editorial board.

“I am thrilled to have this opportunity to contribute to and continue to shape Kidney News at this critical and exciting time for nephrology,” Lafayette said in an official announcement. “I want to build on Kidney News’s reputation as the prime source for news for the kidney community while conveying optimism and hope for a wonderfully fruitful future for our field. I foresee Kidney News being a shared, valued resource for communication for ASN and the entire kidney community.”