Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Rutgers University (MD) Samira Farouk, MD, MS, FASN is a board-certified transplant nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS).
[4][2] Farouk is also cofounder and social media director of the SIM series, a set of virtual learning and teaching tools for different medical disciplines.
[10][11][12] Farouk is now dedicated to further studying and developing educational tools like NephSIM, and aims to implement them into medical school curricula.
[3] In 2019, Farouk played an integral role in the success of KIDNEYcon by introducing free open access medical education (FOAMed), innovating aspects of mentorship, and organizing multiple of the conference's activities.
In April 2019, Farouk joined the KIDNEYcon team as Director of Mentoring and Trainee Engagement, taking on more coordination and mentorship responsibilities for the 2020 conference.
[14] She is also executive board member and organizer of the annual NephMadness event held by the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
Based on MarchMadness, the initiative uses disciplines in kidney medicine for the brackets, and overall aims to increase education of nephrology.