Presidential address kidney week 2019: Winning the war on kidney diseases: The time is now

The American Society of Nephrology Presidential Address was delivered by Mark Rosenberg at Kidney Week 2019 on November 7, 2019 in Washington, DC. The Address describes a remarkable alignment—a syzygy of policy, science, innovation accelerators, clinical trials, clinical care delivery, and activated patients—that exists today in the kidney space. As a community, we must ensure that the strategies developed to take advantage of this alignment, such as Advancing American Kidney Health, succeed. We must overcome our current challenges to thrive as a meaningful specialty. We have an incredible opportunity to come together as a kidney community to ensure success that realigns the priorities and incentives in kidney medicine to better achieve kidney health for all people throughout the world. The time is now to act.