Prof. Dr. Jan T. Kielstein
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HANNOVER, GERMANY |
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I was born in 1969 in Zwickau, Germany. From 1988-1995 I studied Medicine at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, Pritzker Medical School, University of Chicago and Tufts University, Boston.
In 1996 I started my training in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at the Medical School Hannover. I am board certified Internist (since 2004) and Nephrologist (since 2006). After finishing a two year postdoctoral research fellowship in the Vascular Biology Program at Stanford University in I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension at the Medical School Hannover.
My teaching experience of more than 10 years includes the full course of Internal Medicine for nursing students; physical examination and a clinical course on differential diagnosis in Internal Medicine for Medical students; Vascular Pathobiology as part of the Biodesign Innovation Fellows Boot camp (Director: Paul J. Wang, MD) Stanford School of Medicine. I successfully completed the PRECEPT workshop on Teaching and Course Design at Stanford University in 2005.
I am member of the Editorial Board of Clinical Nephrology and a subject consultant for "Nephrology to watch and to hear" of NDT educational. Regular review activity includes Journals like Circulation, JASN.
I started my research training in 1992/1993 during the Academic year program with a stipend of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salsbury Cove, Maine and the Research Department of the Shriners Hospital of Crippled children, Tampa, Florida in the research team of Dr. T. J. Koob. There I finished my thesis "Proteoglycans, physicochemical and biomechanical properties of Myxine glutinosa notocord".
After finishing Medical School I joined the research on ADMA led by Dr. J.C. Froelich, Dr. S.M. Bode-Boeger and Dr. R. Boeger. I also conducted many studies on the treatment of acute renal failure and new modes of dialysis therapy under the leadership of Dr. D. Fliser. In November 2004 I joined the vascular Biology Program at Stanford University; lead by Dr. J.P. Cooke, with stipend from the German Research Foundation (DFG) (Ki 8591/-1).
After my postdoctoral research fellowship I am heading two research groups at the Medical School Hannover, investigating the vascular biology with a focus on the ADMA/NO System (supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (KFO 136) as well as new extracorporeal therapies (supported by the Else Kröner Fresenius Foundation (P63/06 //EKMS 06/03).
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IASI - ROMANIA |
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Adrian Covic, physician in internal medicine and nephrology, doctor of medical sciences, professor at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Gr.T. Popa Iasi.
He is a member of the board of the European Society of Nephrology (ERA-EDTA) has received national and international awards for his scientific work. He has published over 150 scientific articles in prestigious journals in the country and abroad (mostly in the field of cardiovascular complications from kidney patient) and has contributed as coauthor of treaties, academic and medical books.
Also published in Polirom: polycystic kidney disease autosomal dominant (co-publisher Mircea Covic) in 1999, and contributed to chapters of Therapeutic Medical (editors G. Ungureanu, Maria Covic) 2000.
Source:www.cartedesucces.ro
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Prof. Dr. David J.A. Goldsmith |
LONDON - UK |
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In Guy’s I see general nephrology, dialysis and transplantation patients regularly in outpatients. I am responsible for CAPD quality review.
I have guided and developed a robust cardiovascular risk factor screening programme for newly / recently transplanted patients. I developed a joint Diabetic Renal clinic at Guy’s with the Guy’s diabetic team (1999).
I looked after patients with von-Hippel Lindau syndrome (from 2000-2008), in one of the UK’s largest multi-professional VHL combined clinics. I have also helped to start a combined haemoncology renal clinic for patients with PTLD (2008).
The Guy's renal unit has 600 dialysis and over 1000 renal transplant follow-ups.
My main clinical interests are HYPERTENSION, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, INFLAMMATION AND CALCIFICATION SYNDROMES IN RENAL PATIENTS.
Source:www.dgoldsmith.co.uk
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Prof. Dr. Philip Karla |
SALFORD - UK |
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Dr Philip Kalra graduated from Cambridge University and St Thomas’s Hospital and trained in nephrology in Leeds, New Zealand and Greater Manchester.<
He was appointed consultant nephrologist in Salford in 1995 and holds an Honorary Readership appointment at the University of Manchester.
He has a major research interest in atherosclerotic renovascular disease (ARVD) and is co-originator and lead nephrologist for the ASTRAL trial, the largest RCT investigating ARVD. Other research interests include CKD epidemiology and CKD-related vascular calcification.
He is a member of the Kidney Research UK grants committee, is a current member of the UK Renal Association Executive and is the Renal lead for the Greater Manchester Comprehensive Research network.
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Prof. Dr. Jeremy B. Levy |
LONDON - UK |
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I am a Consultant Nephrologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Honorary Senior Lecturer for Imperial College London, Director of Medical Education and clinical tutor for Hammersmith Hospital, and the Head of the London School of Medicine and Medical Specialties for the London Deanery and RCP.
I trained in Cambridge, London and Oxford interrupted by spells of skiing, ski-mountaineering and volcano climbing.
I have a major clinical and research interests in immune mediated renal disease (vasculitis, SLE and other glomerulonephritides), HIV and kidney disease and chronic kidney disease, have written textbooks on dialysis and nephrology, and am hugely committed to teaching and training.
I help manage the research programmes at Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Institute for glomerulonephritis, vasculitis and SLE.
I am responsible in London for all medical training above Foundation level, and at Imperial College teach various aspects of clinical medicine in years 1 through 6 including renal medicine, general internal medicine, clinical skills, revision courses, physiology and careers guidance, and help guide clinical academic training.
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Prof. Dr. Norbert Lameire |
GENT - BELGIUM |
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Professor Norbert Lameire, born in 1940, graduated from the University of Ghent, Faculty of Medicine in 1965 and subsequently received his training in internal medicine and nephrology at the same faculty and the University Hospital from 1965-1970.
In 1970 he finished his PhD thesis with a study on the distribution of intrarenal blood flow studied with radioactive microspheres in the Laboratory of Normal and Pathological Physiology of the Faculty of Ghent..
He performed a research training in the Renal Division of the Texas Medical School in San Antonio, USA from 1975-1976.
After his appointment to full professor of Medicine 1991 at the Medical Faculty of Ghent he became Chief of the Renal Division at the University Hospital and was Chairman of the Department of Medicine from 1999-2004.
He is Emeritus Professor of Medicine from October 2005 at the Medical Faculty of the Ghent University.
Because of his activities in the Renal Sister Programme of the ISN and his leadership of the Renal Disaster Relief Task Force, he became Doctor Honoris Causa at the Kaunas Medical Academy in Lithuania and was awarded a Honoray Membership of the International Society of Nephrology. He was a member of the ISN Executive from 2002-2005. From 2006 on he is responsible for the worldwide CME programmes of COMGAN of the ISN.
He further was awarded with the Price of Internal Medicine of Dr Schamelhout-Koettlitz from the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine (1985) and received a Honorary Award from the American National Kidney Foundation in 2000.
Professor Lameire was member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
Professor Lameire has been deputy editor of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation from 1999-2005 and is since mid 2005 Editor in Chief of the journal.
He is Editor in Chief of the Acta Clinica Belgica, the journal of the Belgian Society of Internal Medicine, Clinical Biology and Clinical Chemistry since 1997.
Research interests include both basic research, i.e. renal circulation in experimental ARF and the peritoneal circulation, as well as clinical topics, including clinical ARF, peritoneal dialysis, and organisational and economic aspects of chronic renal replacement therapy and transplantation. |
Prof. Dr. Peter Stenvinkel |
STOCKHOLM - SWEDEN |
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Titles: MD 1982, PhD 1994. Appointed Full Professor 2009 at the Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm Sweden. Visiting Associate Professor at University of Davis California 2000-2001.
Present position at KI: Professor and senior lecturer at Dept. of Renal Medicine
Huddinge University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Peter Stenvinkel was one of the 10 most cited researchers (Crown index) at
Karolinska Institutet (2005).
Have published more than 320 original publications and reviews and 25 book
chapters on various aspects of inflammation, wasting and metabolism in ESRD
patients.
Prizes: Best Swedish thesis in diabetology 1994. Baxter Extramural Grant awardee
1996. Best case presentation at Huddinge Hospital 1994. Söderbergs Foundation
awardee 2003. Karolina Price awardee 2005. Vizenca price awardee 2009. Addis
Gold medal for nutritional research 2010
• Associate Editor Nephrol Dial Transpl 2007-, Blood Purif 2008-
• Editor-in-chief NDT-E 2010-
• Have given more than 230 invited lectures at various international meetings and
congresses.
• Supervision for PhD students: Sung-hee Chung (thesis 2003); Alicia Marchlewska
(thesis 2005); Jonas Axelsson (thesis 2006) Juan Jesus Carrero (thesis 2008), Karin
Luttropp (ongoing), Hannes Olausson (ongoing), Sunna Snaedal (ongoing), Hadi
Molanaei (ongoing), Meng Li (ongoing), Xiaoyan Huang (onging), Ting Jia (ongoing)
Examinations of PhD theses: Bart Molemans Belgium 2005 Renee de Mutsert,
Holland 2009, Markku Saraheimi Finland 2009
Member of the council of International Society of Nephrology (2007-) and ERA-EDTA
(2007-2010)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ERA-EDTA 2010-
Honorary membership of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology
2010. Honorary membership of the Polish Society of Nephrology 2012.
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Assoc-Prof. Dr. Adalbert Schiller |
TIMISOARA - ROMANIA |
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Assoc-Prof. Dr. Goce Spasovski |
SKOPJE - MACEDONIA |
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Born 1962, Skopje, Macedonia
1981-1988: graduated the University of Medicine, Skopje, Macedonia
1993: 1-month-Dept. of Nephrology, Silesian School of Medicine, Katowice, Poland-Prof. F. Kokot
1994-2007: one year of intermittent stay-Dept. of Nephrology, University of Antwerp, Belgium-Prof. ME De Broe
1997: 3-months (TEMPUS-Individual Mobility Grant)-Dept. of Nephrology, University of Antwerp, Belgium-Prof. ME De Broe
1998: Master of Medical Science in Nephrology: The impact of iron during erythropoietin therapy in ESRD patients on maintenance
hemodialysis, University of Skopje (mentor: Acad. Prof. MH Polenakovic)
2002: Doctor of Medical Science: Renal osteodystrophy in ESRF patients not yet in dialysis, spectrum & diagnostic value of biochemical markers, University of Skopje and Antwerp, (mentors: Prof. ME De Broe and PC D’Haese-Belgium)
2003: 3-months-(COMGAN/BANTAO), Dept. of Nephrology, Laiko University Hospital, Athens, Greece -Prof. Ch. Stathakis
2003-present: EUTox - European Uremic Toxin group member (under the auspices of ESAO)
2002-2007: Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
2007-present: Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
2005-present: Secretary of the Macedonian Society of Nephrology(MSNDTAO)
2005-2007: Secretary of BANTAO (Balkan-Cities-Association-of-Nephrology,Transplantation-and-Artificial Organs)
2006-present: Council member of ERA-EDTA
2007-present: EBPG - European Best Practice Guidelines Committee member
2008: ISN/COMGAN Central&East European Committee member
2008: COST action - BM0702, chairman of the working group.
Community orientation:
Secretary of national congresses of nephrology and one BANTAO Congress
1991-present: 12 international research projects
2001: V BANTAO Congress, Thessalonica, Greece, Third award for oral presentation
2003: XXX ESAO Congress, Aachen, Germany, Second poster award
2003: WCN-Berlin (40thERA/EDTA, 17thISN) Poster of excellence
2003: Hemopharm’s grant for scientific research in the field of
dialysis-Second-award: Adynamic bone disease–clinical outcome of the treatment with different dialysate calcium concentration.
2005: Instructor -Ethical and Regulatory Aspects on GCP-Skopje, Macedonia
2006-2008: Organizer of 5 CME international courses supported by ERA-EDTA&ISN/COMGAN and The National Nephrological Societies (2006 Macedonia, 2007 Albania, 2008 - Bosnia, Bulgaria, Greece)
Co-organizer and speaker at the BANTAO meetings, the Danube symposia, other regional Eastern European CME courses and National&ERA-EDTA Congresses
2005-present: Deputy Editor-in-Chief of BANTAO Journal
2008 - KDIGO CKD-MBD Clinical Practice Guidelines reviewer
Editorial board member: NDT, IUN, Open Bone Journal, Nefrologia (Romania); Hippokratia Journal (Greece) and Journal of Medical Science (Albania); peer-reviewer >10 journals (including NDT, TI; HDI, AJKD & KI)
Publications: 216 (76 first and 14 coauthor); 37+3 in press -Pub Med; 735 citations.
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Prof. Dr. Eberhard Ritz |
HEIDELBERG - GERMANY |
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Professor Dr. Eberhard Ritz is affiliated with the Department Internal Medicine, Ruperto
Carola University of Heidelberg, Germany.
He was born on January 23rd, 1938, in Heidelberg and studied medicine in the Medical
Schools of Heidelberg, Munich and Montpellier. He worked at the Department Internal
Medicine Zürich (Switzerland) and subsequently as an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the
Department of Biochemistry, Washington, University of St. Louis.
Since 1967 he worked in the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Heidelberg,
where he was promoted to become Professor of Internal Medicine in 1974 and then chief of
the Division of Nephrology in 1977.
He is professor emeritus since April 2003.
His main interests concern calcium metabolism in renal failure, hypertension and the kidney,
diabetic nephropathy and cardiac problems in renal failure.
He is past president of the "Gesellschaft für Nephrologie" and past council member of the
European Renal Association and council member of the International Society of Nephrology.
He was president of the World Congress of Nephrology, June 2003 in Berlin. He is honorary
member of the European Renal Association (ERA/EDTA) and of the Australian, British,
Czech , French, Italian, Polish, Spanish and South African Societies of Nephrology.
He is
member of the American College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians in
London and Edinburgh respectively.
He is recipient of the distinguished investigator medal of the National Kidney Foundation, the
"Wissenschaftspreis der Deutschen Hochdruckliga" and the "Bundesverdienstkreuz" of the
German government. He is Dr.h.c. of the Silesian School of Medicine, the Pomerian School
of Medicine and of Semmelweis University Budapest/Hungary.
He received the John P. Peters award of the American Society of Nephrology 2003.
He was congress president of the World Congress of Nephrology Berlin, June 8-12th, 2003.
He is editor-in-chief emeritus of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation and currently associate
editor of the Journal American Society of Nephrology.
He is president elect of the International Society of Nephrology.
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Prof. Dr. Francesco Locatelli |
LECCO - ITALY |
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Professor Francesco Locatelli is head of the Department of Nephrology and Dialysis and
Renal Transplant at Alessandro Manzoni Hospital , Lecco, Italy and postgraduate Professor
of Nephrology at the Universities of Brescia and Milan.
He is Past President of European Renal Association – European Dialysis and Transplant
Association (ERA-EDTA), International Society of Blood Purification (ISBP) and of the Italian
Society of Nephrology (SIN), He is Honorary Member of Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian
and Turkish Societies of Nephrology and he is International Distinguished Medalist and he
received the Garabed Eknojan Award of US National Kidney Foundation. He his also
honorary fellow of Royal College of Physician of London, U.K. ( FRCPB).
He has been chairman of the Lombardy Regional Dialysis and Transplantation Registry .
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also served as chairman of the board of European Best Practice Guidelines (EBPG) and on
the board of National Kidney Foundation, Dialysis Outcome Quality Improvement, NKFDOQITM,
and on the executive board of directors of Global Guidelines and Kidney Disease
Improvement Outcome KDIGO.He was President of World Congress of Nephrology 2009 in
Milan.
He is President of International Society of Geriatric Nephrology since 2007 and
Council member of International Society of Nephrology
Subject Editor of Nephrol Dial Transplant, Associate Editor of J Nephrol, Nephron Clinical
Practice, Blood Purification, International Journal of Artificial Organs member of the Editorial
Board of J Am Soc Nephrol, past associate Editor of Am J Kidney Dis (2001-2004), he also
serves as reviewer of a number of Journals (including New England Journal of medicine and
The Lancet).
He has authored more than 600 papers in the fields of hypertension, nutrition
and chronic kidney disease progression; adequacy in dialysis; sodium and other electrolyte
balance, IgA nephropathy and anaemia.
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Prof. Dr. Raymond Vanholder |
GENT - BELGIUM |
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Raymond Vanholder, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Ghent, and Clinical Head of the Nephrology Division of the Ghent University Hospital, Belgium.
Dr. Vanholder has published more than 400 papers including reviews and book chapters, on adequacy of dialysis, uraemic toxicity and various topics related to clinical nephrology.
Dr. Vanholder is a member of the Steering Committee of the Membrane Permeability Outcome (MPO) Study. He serves as a member or reviewer of the editorial review board of many journals.
He also serves as Chairman for the Uremic Toxins Work Group.
Dr. Vanholder was Founding President of the Belgian Society of Nephrology, is Past President of the European Society for Artificial Organs (ESAO), and was council member of the European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplantation Association (ERA-EDTA) and of the Dutch Society for Nephrology (NVVN).
He chairs the European Best Practice Guidelines (EBPG) for hemodialysis and chairs the guideline Database/Warehouse Work Group for the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO).
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Prof. Dr. J. Floege |
AACHEN - GERMANY |
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Professor Dr. Jürgen Floege received his medical degree in 1984 from the Medical School Hannover (MHH), where he also completed his clinical training. His interest in kidney disease and renal replacement therapies developed during different periods of research at the MHH, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York and as a DFG fellow (1981-1982) and Heisenberg Fellow (1995-1999) at the University of Washington, Seattle .
In 1991 he received the Rudolf Schoen price of Hannover Medical School and in 1992 the Volhard Prize of the German Society of Nephrology.
In 1999 he was appointed Head of the Department of Nephrology and Immunology, RWTH Aachen University. Since 2001 he is Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
Since 2004 he is speaker of the SFB542 "Chronic inflammation" of the DFG. In addition, he works as a representative of nephrology in the DFG Review Board and is a member of the board of the Transregional SFB TRR57 "organ fibrosis."
Professor Floege is a member of several nephrological societies like ASN, ISN and ERA-EDTA. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the ISN Council and the ERA Councils and is a founding member and vice president of the German Society of Nephrology (DGfN). He is deputy editor of the journal Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International, Journal of Nephrology, Kidney and Blood Pressure Research, Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology, the nephrologist, Clinical Nephrology and others.
His research interests include both basic research (growth factors, cytokines, stem cells, angiogenesis and progression of kidney disease), but also clinical problems such as glomerulonephritis, extraosseous calcification in renal failure, cardiovascular risk factors, thrombogenesis, and dialysis related amyloidosis. His scientific work includes 185 original articles, 105 reviews and editorials and 40 book chapters. Together with Richard Johnson and John Feehally Professores he is the editor of "Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology", one of the leading textbooks of nephrology.
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Prof. Dr. Gerard London |
FLEURY-MEROGIS - FRANCE |
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Dr Gérard M. London graduated from medical school of Charles University in Prague in July 1966.
He specialized in Nephrology (1967-1971) at Paris Medical School and became the chief of the department of Nephrology-Hemodialysis of the Manhes Hospital (Fleury-Mérogis/Paris), position he still occupies.
From 1973 to 1985 he was in charge of the hemodynamic laboratory of Broussais Hospital-Paris.
From 1991 to 1998 he was member of the Council of French Society of Nephrology and from 1994 to 1999 of the Council of French Society of Hypertension.
His main interest concerns cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology. He published in this field more than 300 publications including peer review journals and chapters in the books.
Member of International-American-French Societies of Hypertension, and International-European-American and French Societies of Nephrology. Dr London is presently member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Nephrology, Journal of American Society of Nephrology, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Blood Purification. In the past he was a member of Editorial Boards of Kidney International, Journal of Hypertension, American Journal of Nephrology.
He serves as a reviewer to several Journals including Hypertension, Circulation, ATBV, Am J of Hypertension and those where he serves in the Editorial Board
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