Prof Ikechi Okpechi is a nephrologist at Groote Schuur Hospital and the Director of the Kidney and Hypertension Research Unit, University of Cape Town. His research interests are broad but with focus on improving kidney diseases outcomes in Africans. He is widely published, has supervised and mentored several post-graduate students and editorial board member for African Journal of Nephrology (AJN), Nephrology (Carlton), American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) and Medicine (Wolters Kluwer). He is also an executive member of KDIGO.