Dr. Sahar H. Koubar is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Before joining UMN, she served as a Vandyke Medical Educator at the School of Medicine and the Nephrology Fellowship Program Director at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She also served on the Lebanese National Committee for Kidney Health. Her clinical and research interests include glomerular diseases, pregnancy-related kidney diseases, conservative kidney management (CKM), monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance (MGRS), and conflict nephrology. She is a member of the International Society of Nephrology-Conservative Kidney Management working group, which is tasked with spread and implementation of CKM globally. She also serves as an instructor for the Glomerular Disease Study & Trial Consortium (GlomCon). She has over 26 publications,
mostly as a first or corresponding author. She serves as the section editor for glomerular diseases in Clinical Nephrology Journal and a reviewer for several international and national journals. She has a strong commitment to research in glomerular diseases and obstetric nephrology, and she serves as the PI on several international clinical trials.