Dr Lipschutz completed his undergraduate studies, medical school, and residency at Indiana University. He then went on to complete his Nephrology Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). After his medical training, Dr Lipschutz successfully established an internationally recognized independent research program that better explained the etiology of polycystic kidney disease at the University of Pennsylvania. This work and much more has been published in over 80 scientific manuscripts and has been supported by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, Veterans Affairs, and private foundations.

In 2014, Dr Lipschutz took a Professor of Medicine position at the Medical University of South Carolina where he also serves as the Director of the Renal Division and the Arthur Williams Chair in Nephrology. Finally, Dr Lipschutz selflessly serves his country and is a Colonel in the South Carolina Army National Guard.

Dr Shirazian received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University and did his internal medicine residency and nephrology fellowship at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He spent 7 years at NYU-Winthrop Hospital where he was the fellowship program director and the director of nephrology clinical trials before being recruited back to Columbia. He is currently an associate professor of medicine in nephrology and a director of home dialysis at Columbia.

His research aims to test, and implement, interventions to improve quality of life and self-care in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage renal disease. To this end, he has been the principal investigator on several investigator-initiated grant-funded studies in this area. He has over 45 peer reviewed publications, and serves on the editorial board of BMC Nephrology and as the social media editor for Kidney International.

Josh Gariboldi, PharmD, BCPS joined Otsuka in January 2021 and is a Medical Science Liaison on our Nephrology East Team, covering the Carolinas and Tennessee. Dr Gariboldi earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Florida in 2012. He has more than eight years of experience as a clinical pharmacist in both the community and hospital settings, most recently at Bon Secours Mercy Health St. Francis Hospital in Greenville, SC. Dr Gariboldi served as a preceptor with Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy, where he instructed students on Advanced Pharmacy Practice rotations. He holds board certifications in both pharmacotherapy and medical affairs.

Hannah N. Lambert is a Medical Science Liaison at Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development and Commercialization. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy and completed her clinical residency training at Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy in New Orleans, LA. Prior to joining Otsuka, Dr Lambert was a clinical pharmacist at Ochsner Health in Digital Medicine.