Dr. Vivekanand Jha is the Additional Professor of Nephrology and incharge of the Stem Cell Research Facility at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. He did his MBBS from Patna Medical College, and MD in Internal Medicine and DM in Nephrology from PGIMER.He joined the faculty of PGIMER in 1991. He worked at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard University, Boston as a ISN-ASN fellow from 1999 to 2001.

Dr. Jha holds important positions in various professional societies and national and international policy making bodies. He is the Co-chair of the Education Committee, and nmember of the Fellowship Committee and Committee for Prevention of kidney disease project of the Commission for Global Advancement of Nephrology of the of the International Society of Nephrology. He serves on the Board of Directions of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes, a body set up by the National Kidney Foundation of USA dedicated to developing the best practice guidelines for kidney disease management around the world, and is member of Steering Committee the Asian Forum of Chronic Kidney Disease. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Indian Society of Nephrology. He is the incharge of National Peritoneal Dialysis Registry. He is a member of several task forces of the Department of Biotechnology and Indian Council of Medical Research. In the past, he has served as a Councillor of the Asian-Pacific Society of Nephrology and Executive Committee member of the Indian Society of Nephrology. He has been the Associate Editor of Indian Journal of Nephrology for several years and is currently its Deputy Editor.

He has conducted several pivotal trials in the field of kidney disease and transplantation. Dr. Jha has published over 125 research papers in leading journals around the world and has written chapters about various aspects of kidney diseases in leading medical and nephrology text books read globally.

He has been invited to give lectures and talks at several national and international fora.

He has been involved in several projects aimed at highlighting the emergence of chronic kidney diseases epidemic in the developing world and started community awareness and prevention programmes.