Janani Rangaswami is the Chief of Nephrology at the Washington DC VA Medical Center, and a professor of medicine at the George Washington University (GWU) School of Medicine. She is the Chair for the Kidney Council of the American Heart Association (AHA), and led the AHA Scientific Statements on Cardio-Renal Syndrome (2019) and the Cardiorenal Benefits with the Newer Antidiabetic Agents in Kidney Disease (2020). She is Co-Chair of the AHA Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health project, which pioneered a recent presidential advisory, scientific synopsis, and a new CVD risk prediction calculator, PREVENT.

Dr. Rangaswami has authored several publications in cardiorenal medicine, and is the lead editor of two textbooks in this field: Textbook of Cardio-nephrology and the Textbook of Kidney Disease in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. She has won several awards for teaching and leadership in her career, and co-founded the Philadelphia Agreement on Gender Equity (PAGE) in Internal Medicine, supported by the American College of Physicians. Outside of her academic work, Dr. Rangaswami is an Indian classical musician, who has professionally performed extensively.