17th MEA Nephrology Forum Dubaï

Professor of Internal Medicine and Nephrology - Faculty of Medicine-Cairo University. International speaker​ with more than 30 publications in international journals.

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Consultant of Nephrology, Cairo University Hospital. ISN fellow, in 2010-2011 she was granted an 18 months ISN fellowship at the Sheffield kidney Institute mainly training and participating in several clinical trials in the field of PD. She is now working on initiating a PD program in Cairo university hospital. She has been invited as a guest speaker in many conferences and courses promoting and training for PD. She is Egypt's representative in the IFKF.

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MD, FASN, FAHA. Tenured Professor of Medicine, and Head of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at the American University of Beirut (AUB)He is the Director for the Human Research Protection Program at AUB, and for Research Affairs at AUB Medical Center. He joined AUB in 2010 after spending 2 decades at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, USA, and remains an Adjunct faculty member at Yale in the Section of Nephrology. President of the Middle East Chapter of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis​<br><br>President for the Lebanese Society of Nephrology and Hypertension.

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M.D; Nephrology Consultant, Davita KSA Chief Medical Officer, DaVita KSA Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality® (CPHQ), USA; Membership of International Society of Nephrology Interventional Nephrology Working Group October 2018 current; GCC Vascular Access Task Force Member November 2018- current​; The National Association for Healthcare Quality- May 2014 – current​; Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)-January 2014; NIH Office of Extramural Research certificate – January 2014; American Society of Interventional Nephrology, USA, October 2009- current; 15 publications

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Associate Professor of Medicine and consultant Nephrologist at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Consultant Nephrologist at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center-Jeddah Saudi Arabia. Deputy Director of King Abdulaziz University Hospita. Past President of Arab Society of Nephrology & Renal. Transplantation. A lot of publication and international speaker.

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FRCPC; Consultant internal Medicine and Nephrology; Acting Deputy Chief Operation Officer SEHA Kidney Care; A lot of awards and publications

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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Faculty of medicine, King Faisal University​; Head, Internal Medicine department, Faculty of medicine, KFU (Feb 2021-current​);Member, American Society of Nephrology, since 2015; Member, International Society of Nephrology, since 2016 Member, International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis, since 2017; International speaker with a lot of researches and publications

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Head of nephrology division, Department of Medicine, Jahra hospital, Jahra, Kuwait. International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis Middle East Chapter Country Representative. Reviewer for the Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases & Transplantation & Seminars in dialysis. DOPPS country investigator. Member of the Middle East Africa Nephrology Forum Scientific Advisory Committee. Member of the GCC PDOPPS Scientific Advisory Committee.

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College of Medicine, University of Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia; Professor Abdallah has more than 72 researches and publication. He is a speaker in a lot of international congresses. Invented a peritoneal and pleural aspiration and biopsy needle (Alhwiesh needle). Invented a new peritoneal dialysis catheter insertion method (Alhwiesh peritoneal dialysis insertion method)

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Mona Alrukhaimi is Professor of Medicine at Dubai Medical College, United Arab Emirates, Consultant physician & Nephrologist and Director of Alrukhaimi Polyclinic and Ex-Head of Medical and Renal Department, Dubai Hospital. She is the current President of the Emirates Medical Association Nephrology Society , Vice- President of Arab society of Nephrology & Renal Transplantation and the leader of the KDIGO Implementation Task Force for the Middle East & African Regions.She is elected as a member of WHO Task Force on Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues(2018-2021). She was the ISN Council (2011-2017),ISN Executive Committee Member (2015-2017) and Exchair of ISN Middle East Region. She is the first female Nephrologist and Internist in UAE. Graduated from the University of Kuwait in 1983 and subsequently received her MRCP (UK) in 1989, FRCP Edinburg - 2001 and FRCP London - 2005. Prof. Alrukhaimi has actively organized World Kidney Day activities in the UAE since 2006 and the past seventh rounds of the ISN Update Course in Nephrology.She played an active role in the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism . She was a member of the Steering Committee for Women in Transplantation under TTS. She is regular Examiner at the Royal College of Physician of UK.She is country investigator in DOPPS 5 and 6.She Co-Chaired the 13th MESOT Meeting in 2012, and Chaired the 12th Congress of the Arab Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation (ASNRT),The 7th ISN-EMAN Update Course in Nephrology in 2017 and the 13th ISHD Congress in 2018.Prof. Alrukhaimi has received various prestigious awards, including the Ministry of Education Award, UAE (1976), Sheikh Rashid AlMaktoum Award for Postgraduate achievement (1989), the National Kidney Foundation International Distinguished Medalist, USA (2007) , Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid AlMaktoum Award for Medical Science (2012) and a special honor and award of recognition by Gulf Medical University (2012). She also co-chaired the 15th ISODP congress in Dubai in November 2019.

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Head of Nephrology and Dialysis Centers, Amiri Hospital.​<br>Canadian board of internal Medicine.​ Canadian board of nephrology. Member of the Regional Board of International Society of Nephrology (ISN).​More than 15 publications in international journals. Kuwait’s representative for DOPPS.

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Christian Apel is Fresenius Medical Care’s head of Health Economics, Market Access & Political Affairs for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He is also leading Fresenius’ global health economics & market access community. Driving the transition towards value-based KIDNEY care together with different healthcare systems is one of his passions, which is also documented by his frequent publication and speaker activity on this topic. Christian has an academic background in Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Health Policy and Health Economics.

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M.D.​; Head of Nephrology at Clemenceau hospital Beirut.​<br>Istanbul Declaration Steering Committee Member Middle East Society of Organ Transplantation, Secretary General World Academy for Medical and Biomedical and Ethical Sciences. Founding Member World Academy for Medical and Biomedical and Ethical Sciences. Co-Chair, Scientific Committee The Transplantation Society, International Ethic Committee Member, The Transplantation Society, Lebanon.​ A lot of publications and speaker in international events.

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Professor Peter J. Blankestijn completed his medical school and training in Internal Medicine at the Erasmus University and Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Presently, he works as a nephrologist at the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension of the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands. He was and is principal investigator of several multicenter studies, including SMASH, MASTERPLAN, CONTRAST, SYMPATHY and CONVINCE. He was active within the ERA-EDTA as a member of the council (2010-2013 and re-elected in 2017). He was chair of the Working Group on Dialysis Therapy (EuDial) from 2012 to 2017. Since 2017/2018, he is active on a national and international level in creating awareness for the interaction between climate change / environmental pollution and health / disease and initiated the green initiative within the ERA-EDTA. His main research activities include studies in humans. Subjects are: 1] hypertension, with special interest for hypertension in chronic kidney disease patients, for the sympathetic nervous system and renal denervation, 2] treatment and prevention of complications of chronic kidney disease patients, 3] hemodialysis techniques, and 4] treatment and prevention of complications of hemodialysis treatment. He is co-author of over 300 papers in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals. He is member (including chair) of multiple institutional, national and international committees and boards.

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Professor Bernard Canaud is currently an Emeritus Professor of Nephrology at the Montpellier University School of Medicine, France. He headed the Nephrology, Dialysis and Intensive Care Department for 25 years at Lapeyronie University Hospital, Montpellier, France. Main topics of interest are renal replacement therapy, uremic toxicity, vascular access, dialysis efficacy, nutrition, anemia, epidemiology of chronic kidney disease and practice patterns. He contributed to the elaboration and production of the European Best Practice Guidelines particularly on dialysis fluid purity, vascular access, dialysis adequacy, and anemia management. Prof. Canaud is currently the senior chief scientist in the Global Medical Office of Fresenius Medical Care. He acted as chief medical officer for the EMEA-LA region at Fresenius Medical Care from 2012 to 2018. He has published 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts, contributed to more than 80 textbook chapters and attended more than 1000 scientific medical meetings. Prof. Canaud has received several awards and distinctions from international nephrology societies including the prestigious Belding Scribner award from the ISHD in 2010. He also received the “Légion d’Honneur” as recognition for his lifetime of medical achievement from the French president in 2009. In March 2019, the ADC and Missouri University, USA, awarded him for his lifetime achievement in nephrology and commitment to renal replacement therapy.

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M.D.; ASSOCIATE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER Fresenius Kidney Care; Member, P&T Committee Kidney Care, Waltham, MA​<br>Member, US ADVISORY PANEl Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS); Member, covid-19 home dialysis Committee; 04/2020 –PRESENT American Society of Nephrology​; A lot of publications in medical Journals and books.

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Professor Simon Davies is a consultant nephrologist at the University Hospital of North Midlands and Professor of Nephrology and Dialysis Medicine at Keele University, United Kingdom. Until recently Prof. Davies was chair of the UK Renal Registry Dialysis Study Group and is now co-chair of the International Society of Nephrology Dialysis Committee, having served as president of the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis from 2010−2012. His principal research interests are in peritoneal dialysis (PD) and the evaluation of fluid status in advanced kidney failure. He is responsible for the Stoke PD Study, and a lead investigator of the European Automated Peritoneal Dialysis Outcome Study (EAPOS), the BISTRO Trial, evaluating bioimpedance guided fluid management and residual kidney function preservation in hemodialysis, the GLOBAL Fluid Study and the international PD Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS). The impact of this research was rated outstanding by the UK Research Excellence Framework 2014 and he was awarded the Distinguished International Medal by the American National Kidney Foundation in 2013.

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MD, MSHS, FAAP, FASPN; Consultant & Head of Pediatric Nephrology Section Dubai Hospital, Dubai; Consultant Pediatric Nephrologist Saudi German Hospital, Dubai - UAE; Consultant & Head of Pediatric Nephrology Section Dubai Hospital, Dubai - Consultant Pediatric Nephrologist Al Zahra Private Hospital, Dubai - UAE; Consultant Pediatric Mediclinic City Hospital, Dubai - UAE; More than 50 publications and 15 researches; International speaker

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Specialist Nephrology Madinat Zayed Hospital (SEHA hospital); Chief of nephrology and Regional Renal Coordinator AL Dhafra Medical region; Area of interest is Critical care Nephrology; Participated as a speaker in a lot of conferences and has various publications and awards

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Dr Forni is Professor and Consultant in intensive care at Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Originally a physical chemist Professor Lui Forni subsequently trained at St George's Hospital Medical School before commencing medical training at the London Postgraduate Medical Schools. Registrar Training was at St Thomas' followed by ICU and Nephrology training at St Thomas' and St George's

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Consultant in Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplant Specialty Hospital, Amman, Jordan; President of Jordan Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation.​ Member and Immediate Past President of the Arab Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation;​President of Jordan Society of Internal Medicine. President of Jordan Society of British Medical Graduates. President Elect of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (MESOT).​ Associate Professor / School of Medicine / Mo'tah University. (Past) International speaker in more 200 occasions and has more than 200 publications

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Congress director. President Elect of AFRAN. Professor of Medicine and nephrology Cairo University. Secretary General MESOT. Past President ESNT. Chief of Nephrology Arab Board Council. A lot of publication.

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As head of Global Medical Information and Education, Rainer Himmele leads a highly engaged medical team with the vision to align and provide state-of-the-art educational programs on dialysis best practices to all Global Medical Office regions. He received his medical training at the University of Heidelberg, Vienna, New York, and Zurich. He holds a research doctorate in molecular biology and genetics at the German Cancer Research Center, and a master of science in healthcare management from the University of Heidelberg and Mannheim Business School in Germany. 

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General Manager, Fresenius Medical Care Middle East (Father, Leader, Team Member and Ambitious Health Care Business Expert); Dubai; Experienced Regional Sales and Operations Executive Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the medical device industry. Skilled and awarded in Marketing Management, Negotiation, Business Planning, Operations Management, and Sales. An always over-achieving professional with a Bachelor from American University of Beirut.

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CEO Professor Director SEHA Kidney Care Abu Dhabi, UAE; Professor of Medicine Khalifa University Abu Dhabi, UAE; Clinical Professor University of Melbourne, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences; Previously Clinical Professor of Medicine Monash University, Eastern Health Clinical School, Melbourne; More than 200 publications and reviews; Member of more than 14 research committee; International speaker

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Graduated from the Medical School of Free University Berlin, Germany in 1987. Subsequent clinical training in Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Intensive Care Medicine at University Hospital Charlottenburg, Berlin. Board certifications: Internal Medicine; Nephrology; Medical Intensive Care. Appointed full Professor of Medicine at Charité University Hospital Berlin in July 2003. From 2009 until March 2016 Acting Director of the Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care at Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum. In April 2016 appointed Director of the Department of Medicine I (Nephrology, Transplantation & Medical Intensive Care) at University Witten/Herdecke Medical Center Cologne-Merheim, Germany, and Chair of Internal Medicine II at University Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany.

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Senior Manager Health Economics, Market Access & Political Affairs in Fresenius Medical Care

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Vice President of Medical Information and Education, Fresenius Medical Care Europe/Middle East/Africa. Fatih Kircelli leads the medical information and education team throughout Fresenius Medical Care’s Europe/Middle East/Africa region. His team provides medical expertise to all related departments on the company’s product portfolio and therapies. He is a nephrologist with over 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Fatih Kircelli received his associate professor degree in nephrology in 2012.

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Vice President Sales / Middle East, Turkey & Africa; Fresenius Medical Care

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Peter Kotanko, MD, is research director at the Renal Research Institute (RRI), New York, USA. Before joining RRI, from 1997 to 2007 he served as vice-chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at an academic teaching hospital in Graz, Austria. Before moving to Graz in 1989, he worked from 1982-1989 at the Department of Physiology and the University Clinic of Internal Medicine, Innsbruck, Austria. From 1995-1996 he trained in nephrology at the Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK. He is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Nephrology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, USA, and holds a teaching appointment at the Medical University Innsbruck. He has authored and co-authored over 300 papers and book chapters. He is an awardee of the 2019 KidneyX prize for Innovations in Dialysis.

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Associate Chief Medical Officer, Fresenius Kidney Care; Dr. Kraus has held several positions at Indiana University (IU) and School of Medicine. He is a leader in the field of short daily home hemodialysis and an internationally recognized invited speaker. He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Kidney Foundation of Indiana.

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Doctor Adeera Levin is a Professor of Medicine, head of the division of nephrology at the University of British Columbia, and consultant nephrologist at Providence Health Care / St. Paul’s Hospital, in Vancouver, Canada. She is the executive director of the BC Renal Agency, which oversees the care, planning, and budgets for kidney services in the province of British Columbia. She is active in international activities across the spectrum of kidney education, research and administrative activities, and was past president of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), from 2015 - 2017, and a founding member of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group (DICG). She advocates for patient rights to equitable access to care, and in the prevention of exploitation of vulnerable populations. Her teaching and research awards include: Canadian Society of Nephrology Outstanding Contributions to Canadian Nephrology (2013), Kidney Foundation Research Medal of Excellence (2014), and is a fellow of Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2014), and the Aubrey J Tingle Research award for contributions to the province of British Columbia (2015). In 2015, she was awarded the highest civilian honor in Canada, The Order of Canada, for her contributions to the life of Canadians. Her major research interests include chronic vascular disease (CVD) in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, variability in the progression of CKD and optimal models of care. She has over 300 peer-reviewed publications and numerous book chapters. She is the principal investigator on a patient-oriented network grant CAN SOLVE CKD.

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Associate Professor Franklin W. Maddux is global chief medical officer for Fresenius Medical Care, overseeing worldwide medical strategy and care delivery for the world’s most expansive kidney care organization. His distinguished career includes more than three decades of leadership as a physician, expert nephrologist, technology entrepreneur and healthcare executive. Assoc. Prof. Maddux joined Fresenius Medical Care in 2009 after the company acquired Health IT Services Group, a leading electronic health record (EHR) software company founded by Assoc. Prof. Maddux. He developed one of the first laboratory electronic data interchange programs for the US dialysis industry and later created one of the first web-based EHR solutions, now marketed under Acumen Physician Solutions. He previously served as an executive vice president for clinical and scientific affairs and chief medical officer for Fresenius Medical Care North America; is the former chief medical officer and senior vice president for Specialty Care Services Group; and served as president of Virginia’s Danville Urologic Clinic in the United States, where he was a practicing nephrologist for nearly two decades. An alumnus and former Trustee of Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA,Assoc. Prof. Maddux earned his Doctor of Medicine from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he holds a faculty appointment as clinical Associate Professor for the School of Medicine, is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the Boards of Directors for Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma and Goldfinch Bio. He was appointed to the Fresenius Medical Care global management board in 2019 and his pioneering healthcare information technology innovations are part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.

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MD, MBA/MHHM; Director of the National LDL-Apheresis Center, Dahr El Bacheck Hospital, Roumieh – Lebanon; Director of the National LDL-Apheresis Center, Dahr El Bacheck Hospital, President of the Lebanese Society of Internal Medicine, 2018-2021. Head of the Nephrology-dialysis department and registered physician at Hayek Hospital, since 2010. Chairman of the SP committee and Founder – head of the EMSP at the Clinique du Levant, from 2012; Founder and President of the Lebanese Association of Palliative Care (ALSP), 2011; Who is on the board of directors of the International Federation for Palliative Care (FISP); A lot of publications about LDL therapies

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Deputy Country Medical Director. Diaverum, Saudi Arabia; Former director of Nephrology inPrince Sultan Military hospitals; More than 80 publications; International speaker

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Head of Nephrology department, C. A. Diop University of Dakar and ISN Dialysis Working Group chair​; Chief of Nephrology department, University hospital Dalal Jamm, Dakar; Author or co-author of more than 50 scientific papers in international and local journals.

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Ercan Ok is a Professor of Nephrology, the division chair at Ege University, in Izmir, Turkey. He majored in medicine at Ege University, attended the University of Arkansas as research fellow with ISN fellowship between 2000 and 2002. His main research areas are blood pressure and volume control, hemodiafiltration, vascular calcification and bone disease, and home hemodialysis. He conducted several clinical trials on hemodiafiltration, hemodialysis membrane permeability, dialysate purity, dialysate calcium, bioimpedance, and in-center nocturnal hemodialysis. Prof. Ok is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed publications.

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Member, Iranian Society of Nephrology; Member, Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (MESOT); Member, International Society of Nephrology

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Consultant in Critical Care & Nephrology (Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, London);Honorary Senior Lecturer (King’s College London); Professor in Intensive Care Medicine (King’s College London); Chair of AKI section of European Society of Intensive Care Medicine; Chair of Research Committee of European Society of Intensive Care Medicine; Director of Research of Intensive Care Society UK​<br>More than 60 publications and international speaker

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M.D., Internal Medicine and Nephrology​; Full Professor Medical Education; Master Health Professional Education; Depart. For Nephrology and Intensive Care; Head Dieter Scheffner Center for Medical EducationCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin; He has been actively involved in educational reform initiatives for two decades, both as a teacher and curriculum developer; Has hundreds of publication and well known international speaker

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Expert Director Acute Renal Care, Medical Information and Education EMEA, Global Medical Office. Dr. Robert Pohlmeier is trained as a physician and in addition has a diploma in electrical engineering. He provided medical oversight and managed the implementation of the Ci-Ca regional citrate anticoagulation project and has worked with Fresenius Medical Care for more than 20 years in different scientific functions and with a focus on treatment of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients.​

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Doctor Ponce graduated from Lisbon University, Portugal, and he did his postgraduate training in internal medicine in the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, State University of New York followed by Renal Fellowship in Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard University and in the New England Medical Center at Tufts University, USA. He is board certified in nephrology and intensive care medicine. Dr. Ponce is currently medical director of the Nephrology Department and of the General ICU of the Cuf Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. Additionally, he is the country medical director of NephroCare Portugal and medical director of its Vascular Access Centers.

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Medical Director & Head of Medical Affairs, FMC.; Member of the Management Team Xenios AG; National Board Certification “Anesthesiology”; National Board Certification “Emergency Medicine"; Disease focus: Cardiopulmonary

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Head of Department of Critical care​<br>Senior Consultant Anesthetist Intensivist at Ministry of Health Oman

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Attending Physician in ICU, CHUV, Lausanne​; Chair of the Renal Section at European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM, Renal section); Guest speaker in more than 75 congresses; A lot of publications, awards and grants

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Rukshana Shroff, MD, FRCPCH, Ph.D., is a consultant in pediatric nephrology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, UK, and Associate Professor at the University College London Institute of Child Health. Her research focuses on cardiovascular disease in childhood chronic kidney disease (CKD), including laboratory work, clinical research studies and clinical trials. She leads a European trial comparing long-term outcomes of conventional hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration in children. She currently holds a prestigious senior fellowship from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to continue research into mineral dysregulation in CKD. She has published more than 200 original articles, reviews and book chapters in the fields of nephrology and dialysis. Doctor Shroff is on the executive committee of KDIGO and has contributed to the recent KDIGO CKD-MBD guideline update and two guideline committees for the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). She has served on the council for the European Society for Pediatric Nephrology. She serves on the editorial board of the clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Pediatric Nephrology and Peritoneal Dialysis International. Dr. Shroff has shared her expertise with the scientific committee in several international meetings including the ERA-EDTA, IPNA, ESPN and EuroPD congresses, and has given over 75 invited talks.

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Associate Professor Slon Roblero is specialized in home dialysis therapy and currently in charge of the Home Dialysis Program (both peritoneal and home hemodialysis) at the Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Spain. She qualified as a nephrologist from the Clínica Universidad de Navarra and is currently a clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Universidad de Navarra as well as a co-investigator in the area of cardiovascular and kidney disease at the Navarre Institute for Health Research (IDISNA). Assoc. Prof. Roblero is the co-investigator in several clinical trials in mineral bone disease, peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis and kidney transplantation and is currently the principal investigator of a national multi-centric project related to peritoneal ultrafiltration in chronic heart failure. Assoc. Prof. Roblero is a board member of the Working Group of the Spanish Society of Nephrology for support and promotion of home hemodialysis in Spain. She is responsible for the National Registry for kidney patients (REER) and Renal Registry for ERA-EDTA in Navarra.

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Peter Stenvinkel serves as a Full Professor and senior lecturer at the Department of the Renal Medicine Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. He has published about 530 original publications and reviews and more than 30 book chapters on various aspects of inflammation, wasting, vascular calcification and metabolism in chronic kidney disease. He is interested in bio-inspired medicine and epigenetics. His Hirsch index is 82 according to PubMed. He has given more than 400 invited lectures at various international meetings and congresses in about 30 different countries. He received a prize for the best Swedish thesis in diabetology in 1994 and was a Baxter Extramural Grant awardee in 1996. He was a Karolina prize awardee in 2005 and a Vicenza prize awardee in 2009. He received the Addis Gold medal by the ISRNM for nutritional research in 2010 and was National Kidney Foundation international awardee in 2012. He received the ERA-EDTA prize for outstanding educational contribution in 2017.

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Doctor Len Usvyat chairs Fresenius Medical Care’s (FME) Advanced Analytics steering committees and works closely with the global MONitoring Dialysis Outcomes (MONDO) initiative, an international consortium of dialysis providers. His team provides analytical support and functions in the liaison capacity with Fresenius Medical Care’s integrated care assets such as its pharmacy, vascular care centers, urgent care facilities, and the Fresenius Medical Care’s health plan. Globally, he is responsible for connecting various advanced analytics partners inside and outside Fresenius Medical Care to the medical office clinical agenda and building out FME’s capabilities in applied advanced analytics endeavors. These efforts vary and include activities such as routine and custom reporting, predictive modeling, outcomes analysis, and research. Doctor Usyvat has published over 70 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Ph.D. from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.

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Professor Wim van Biesen is the chief clinician and chief of the Department of Internal Medicine (Renal Division) at the University Hospital Ghent, Belgium. He holds several memberships in different societies such as the editorial board of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (cJASN), Peritoneal Dialysis International and the journal Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation. He is a member of the board of EuroPD and ex-chair of European Renal Best Practice. He is also co-organizer of the Oxford-Ghent summer school on renal replacement and transplantation. He is the founding-chair of the Justifiable Digital Healthcare consortium at the University Ghent, Belgium. Prof. van Biesen conducts clinical, basic and translational research in the field of nephrology, evidence-based medicine and patient participation. He published more than 380 papers and has been involved in many international collaborations.

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