Dr Faissal TARRASS, MD, MS is a private practice nephrologist, serving patients at the Center of Hemodialysis 2 Mars, in Casablanca, Morocco. Dr. TARRASS is internationally recognized in the Marquis Who's Who of the World. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of many peer-reviewed medical Journals, and his is an author of numerous articles, paper presentations and book chapters. His research interests are focused on environmental nephrology and sustainable issues in healthcare.

Member of the Editorial Board

Sharad Madanlal is the head of the department of Nephrology in Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital

Kidney Transplantation,Hemodiafiltration

Dr. Eleni Chelioti is currently working at Department of Nephrology, General Hospital of Piraeus, Athens, Greece, and her research interest is Nephrology,and has authored several research articles/books related to Acute Renal Failure, Malakoplakia Lesions of the Urinary Bladder and Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphoma.

Acute Renal Failure, Malakoplakia Lesions of the Urinary Bladder and Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphoma

Ifeoma has been a member of the Renal unit of medicine,she involved in number of research initiatives in kidney diseases and clinical trails.She is the president for healthy heredity and environment research group.Also a member of many national and international professional socities.

Genes and Environment in Kidney disease,Dialysis, Kidney Transplants,Clinical Trails.

Dr. Siami is MD, PhD, FACP, FASN, Prof. of Medicine and Nephrology at Vanderbilt School of Medicine. He was promoted to Prof. Emeritus in 2011. He received 50 Years’ Service Award from AMA. He published more than 100 Abstracts, Original Papers, Book Chapters and Editorials. He was President of Intern. Soc. for Apheresis and KEYNOTE Speaker opening several World Congress of Nephrology in recent years.

Nephrology and Dialysis

Jose L. Reyes, MD, PhD MD degree from National University of Mexico (1964), Pediatric Nephrologist from Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gomez (1969, Sponsor Dr. Gustavo Gordillo), Research fellow (Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles CA, USA. Sponsor Dr. Jose Strauss ), PhD degree Center for Research and Advanced Studies. National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico (1977). Currently full professor at this institution and former Head of the Department of Physiology, Biophysics and Neurosciences. Invited Professor: University of Laussanne, Switzerland, 1983- 1984, Université de Paris VI.. Invited professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA, New York Medical College, USA, Université de Paris, France, Universite de Nice, France, Cambridge University, England and Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland. 135 publications

Nephrology, Physiology, Biophysics and Neurosciences

Dr Ioannis Griveas, MD, PhD is Medical Director of Nephrology Department 417 Veterans Army Administration Hospital of Athens (NIMTS), Professor-Consultant Hellenic Open University, Medical Director of Private Dialysis Unit “Nefroiatriki”, Athens, Greece, Consultant Nephrologist and Lt. Colonel of the Greek Army. He is also the owner of Private Renal Clinic «Athens-Nephrology». He has more than 152 presentations in Greek and international conferences and 61 publications in Greek and international journals. Dr Ioannis Griveas is the Editor-Author of the books “Principles of Renal Medical Procedures” and “Principles of Cellular Immunity in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients”. He has given more than 40 lectures in Greek and international conferences and he is currently Special Secretary of the board of Hellenic Hemapheresis Society.

Dialysis, Renal Medicine and Nephrology

Dr. Naohiko Ueno is the director of Ueno Internal Medicine and Diabetes Clinic, and a visiting lecturer at Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical. He specializes in Diabetes and certified by the Japan Diabetes Society, and also specializes in Internal Medicine certified by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine. He studied as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Neuroscience of the University of Florida, USA. His current field of interest is diabetes treatment and body weight regulation. He has many publications in medical journals including Diabetes Care, Diabetologia, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology.

Diabetes treatment, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology

Dr. Andrew Lobashevsky has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years from Moscow Medical Academy, Russia and postdoctoral studies from University of Tennessee at Memphis. He is the associate professor and director of histocompatibility and transplant Immunology laboratory at Indiana University and IUHealth Inc. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of 2 repute journals.

Organ Transplantation and Transplant Immunology

Vladimirs Strazdins graduated from Riga Medical Institute in 1977 (now called Riga Stradins University). He served for two years as an Army Medical Officer and started to work in University Hospital for Children in Riga in 1983. In 1992, he was appointed as Head of Nephrology at the same hospital and held this position till 2009. He is a member of European Pediatric Dialysis Working Group under ESPN from 2004 till 2012, with published European Guidelines on Pediatric Dialysis. He is recently retired, but still working part-time in Hemodialysis Unit at MS Gailezers and provides second-opinion to the consulting patients. He currently focuses on antimicrobial resistence issues and its implications on urinary tract infections.

Dialysis and urinary tract infections

Prof. Petra Reinke is Nephrologist / Clinical Scientist - scientific topics: transplantation medicine, development of new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in transplantation. She is Project coordinator for the EU founded FP7 consortium “BIO-DrIM”, was Steering committee member / work-package leader of the EU founded FP7 consortium “ONE- Study”, Steering committee member / work-package leader of the EU founded FP6 consortium “RISET”, Co-PI for a project founded by the Immune Tolerance Network, Co-Investigator ROTF grant. She is Head of the “Kidney Transplant Outpatient Clinic”; Head of research area “immune system”, Head of the GMP-Facility, Steering Committee Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, of the DFG-sponsored Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies, of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) Stem Cell Center. She published more than 300 articles.

Transplantation medicine

Thomas Ryzlewicz has completed his PhD from Free University in Berlin (West). He started dialysis treatment in 1974. In between 2 years in the Physiologic Institute (Berlin-West, theme acid-base status). In1978, he published two papers in Kidney International (co-working with H Hampl) concerning the cardio-vascular behavior during dialysis monitored by left-heart catheter. In 1978, he worked on the development of a rough protoype for bicarbonate dialysis in order to study the amount of acidification. In 1985, he was a Consultant at the Nephrologic Clinic in Regensburg (Bavaria, Germany). He was a Senior Consultant in 1992 (dialysis centre in Ebersberg, near Munich, Germany). He is responsible for handling of many prototypes of dialysis supply systems, e.g., prototypes of hemofiltration (1978) and of the real (2-step) online-hemofiltration (1983-85). He worked on the development of an own bloodline with minimal contact between blood & air in order to reduce the sheer-stress in single fibre capillary (big EPO dosage reduction, product “Oxyless-Line”) which obtained EU patent, US patent, PEMA audit from London, and was published by Ian Macdougal (King’s College, London)

Dialysis, Kidney Transplantation

Käthe B Meyer completed her Master’s and is currently completing her PhD at Oslo University. She is a Transplant Coordinator at Oslo University Hospital. She has been a member of several international committees such as the Executive Committee of the Board of Transplant Coordinators within the division of Transplantation of the UEMS, Chair of Nordic Transplant Coordinator Group and scientific committee member at EDTCO congresses. She has published 8 articles in reputed journals.

Transplantation and Kidney diseases

Dr. Amit Gupta is currently working as a Professor of Nephrology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. He is a Senior Resident in AIIMS New Delhi, India and fellow in Nephrology Guys Hospital, London, UK and Toronto Hospital, Toronto, Canada. He had qualifications of M.B.B.S; M.D. (Medicine), D.N.B (Nephrology) and FRCP (London). He has a 40 years of experience as a faculty member in Department of Nephrology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India joined in the year 1987. His main research and interest areas are Peritoneal Dialysis and Renal transplantation. He held various positions in various Societies, Past President Indian Society of Nephrology, 2009 and Past President Peritoneal Dialysis Society of India, 2004. And also he had orations in Khullar Oration of Indian Society of Nephrology 2005, Arogya Kalyan Nyas Oration of Peritoneal Dialysis Society of Nephrology 2012 and Georgi Abraham Oration of Peritoneal Dialysis Society of India 2016. He had 192 articles in indexed journals & 30 book chapters. And also he had a achievement in the CAPD programme at SGPGIMS in 1993 which is the largest centre for CAPD in South Asia.

Peritoneal Dialysis and Renal transplantation

Michael F Michelis is Director of Nephrology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York and Clinical Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine. He received his training in renal disease at the University of Pittsburgh and was a member of the faculty there before moving to New York. Dr Michelis is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Specialist in Clinical Hypertension and a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology. Dr Michelis has been principal investigator on many clinical trials and has authored numerous publications. Dr. Michelis directed clinical studies which characterized an unrecognized genetic kidney disease now referred to as Michelis-Castrillo Syndrome.

Nephrology

Thomas Ryzlewicz at 66 years, born in West-Berlin (Germany). Nephrologist since 40 years with regular clinical work with RRT Patients. In 1974 he used several of the first Dialysis Set-Up’s (Travenol 120 Batch System, Milton Roy B II, Gambro AK 3). 1978 Bag-Hemofiltration done (with the Equipment of 3 Blood Pumps, one Bed Scale and a Cup to measure the Filtration Rate (with a Stop-Watch)

Nephrology

Lois J Arend is Associate Professor of Renal Pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She received a PhD in Physiology and her MD at Michigan State University, then completed residency and a fellowship in renal pathology at The University of Michigan. She has studied renal function and disease in areas such as the role of adenosine in normal kidney function, development of the kidney, and cystic kidney disease, and the pathology of vascular access and transplantation for 30 years, publishing over 65 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and chapters in major textbooks such as Heptinstall’s Pathology of the Kidney. She is Director of Clinical Fellowship training for the Department of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University.

Nephrology

huong-Thu Pham is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Outpatient Services of the Kidney Transplant Program at UCLA Medical Center. Her major areas of interest include recurrence of glomerular diseases following primary renal transplantation, new onset diabetes after transplantation, BK virus screening andrnmanagement after kidney transplantation, the link between hypomagnesemia and renal function decline in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 as well asrnin recipients of kidney transplant and acute and chronic kidney injury following liver transplantation. Her interests have resulted in publications in well-known Nephrology textbooks and journals as well as invitations to speak at both national and international meetings. She has written over 20 book chapters for major Nephrology and solid organ transplantation textbooks including Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology, Textbook of Organ Transplantation, Transplantation of thernLiver, Pancreas, islet and stem cell transplantation for diabetes, Chronic Kidney Disease: Dialysis and Transplantation, and Handbook of Kidney Transplantation.rnShe has also served as Moderator for transplant-related conferences at the American Society of Nephrology and World Congress of Nephrology, EditorialrnBoard Member for the Case Reports in Nephrology and Transplantation Technologies and Research journals and Member of the Organizing Committee for thernInternational Conference on Nephrology and Therapeutics.

Nephrology

Anil K. Mandal is a native of India and a naturalized citizen of the United States. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology (kidney disease and hypertension). He is an author of a dozen books and more than 100 published articles on research in diabetes and kidney disease. He is a two-time Fulbright Scholar and a visiting professor in 23 countries that invited him to lecture on diabetes, high blood pressure, and kidney diseases.

Diabetes, ESRD, non-dialysis treatment, kidney disease

Paulo Roberto Santos is Associate Professor at Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, and coordinates the Graduate Program in Health Sciences of the Sobral Faculty of Medicine. His main research interests are self-perceived outcomes (quality of life, depression, coping strategies and sexuality) among end-stage renal disease patients.

Nephrology

Manuela Stoicescu is a consultant internal medicine physician, Ph.D., assistant professor of University of Oradea, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Medical Disciplines Department, Romania. She also works at Emergency Hospital Internal Medicine Department and Internal Medicine Office. She has published two books, one monograph and papers in reputed journals. She was invited as a speaker at 9 national and 20 International Conferences. She is Member of Romanian Society of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Medical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Member of the Balkan Society of Medicine.

Nephrology