Gakuru Macharia is the Founder Kidney Research Kenya (KRK) KRK has been training doctors, nurses and surgeons through partnership Cairo University, Toledo University USA, Kings College London, Liverpool Teaching Hospital, Hunan Province China. Publisher Author of many books including – Kidney Failure, High Blood Pressure, Kidney Transplantation and Organ Donation, Dialysis, My own Experience. A Bio – Med and has worked for Toshiba Medical Systems Europe and NHS in the UK. He’s also a Journalist and has worked for Kenya Broadcasting as London Bureau Chief, commentator for Aljazeera, CNN, BBC etc.

Kidney Transplantation and Organ Donation, Dialysis

Professor Bogov is an active investigator in clinical trials related to anemia, hyperphosphatemia and bone diseases in patients with chronic kidney disease, especially in kidney biopsy based studies, in patients with diffuse kidney diseases. His academic carrier is supported by more than 160 published articles and book chapters in peer-reviewed and national journals, and lectures on topics related to systemic amyloidosis, chronic kidney disease, renoparenchima and renovascular hypertention, dialysis and mineral and bone disorders, and kidney transplantation.

Immune nephropathy, renal amyloidosis, treatment end diagnostic of immune nephropathy, ultrasonography, Color and Doppler echography, kidney biopsy

Josep M. Campistol is currently the General Director of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain, and former Medical Director of the same hospital as well as Director of the Clinical Institute of Nephrology and Urology (ICNU). He is also Professor of Medicine at the Nephrology Department of the University of Barcelona. He received his medical degree from the University of Barcelona in 1983, and completed his residency in internal medicine and, subsequently, his fellowship in renal medicine at the Hospital Clinic of the same institution. Following his training as a fellow in renal medicine at the University of Barcelona, Prof. Campistol continued his clinical work in renal transplantation within the Renal Transplant Unit at the Hospital Clinic. During this period, he also developed research interests into the pathogenesis of dialysis-related amyloidosis, and undertook a visiting Fulbright Scholarship at Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, MA, USA (1991– 1992). His doctoral thesis (1990) was based on the ‘Pathogenesis of dialysis-amyloidosis and the role of lymphocytes on beta-2-microglobulin synthesis and dialysis membranes’. Prof. Campistol has published more than 700 experimental and clinical papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of many international transplant societies, on the editorial board of a number of major international transplant journals and a principal investigator in numerous clinical studies. His current research interests include the use of new immunosuppressive regimens in renal transplantation, mechanisms of allograft fibrosis and renal regenerative medicine.

use of new immunosuppressive regimens in renal transplantation, mechanisms of allograft fibrosis and renal regenerative medicine.

Adel E. Berbari received his MD from the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. He had his residency training in Internal Medicine at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) and fellowship training in Nephrology/Hypertension at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is presently Professor of Medicine (Nephrology/Hypertension) and Physiology at the American University School of Medicine and AUBMC. His scientific activities include full time clinical practice in Nephrology and Hypertension, teaching nephrology and vascular physiology to medical students. He has published 90 articles in peer reviewed journals, 57 abstracts, and 5 books: 1) Cardiorenal syndrome mechanisms, risk and treatment; 2) Special issues in hypertension; 3) Arterial disorders: definition, clinical manifestations, mechanisms and therapeutics; 4) Clinical blood pressure measurement manual; 5) Disorders of blood pressure regulation: phenotypes, mechanisms, therapeutic options. He is a member of several national, regional and international societies. He received several awards from national and international scientific/medical organizations. He is editor-in-chief of Lebanese Medical Journal.

1) hypertensive disorders, 2) role of chronic kidney disease in large artery function, 3) role of Phosphate in the pathogenesis of arterial stiffness in hypertensive, diabetic, and chronic kidney disease patients.

• Osama Ibrahim is currently the Head of Nephrology department at New Mansoura General Hospital (International) - Mansoura – Egypt. He is ISN Education Ambassador, Vice president of Dakhlia Nephrology Group (DNG) , Egypt , Coordinator of peritoneal dialysis program in Egypt, Coordinator of nephrology fellowship program in new Mansoura General hospital ( International ) - Mansoura- Egypt and Nephrology consultant for Dakahlia medical directorate - Ministry of health – Egypt. Creation of strong program in Mineral Bone disease especially Parathyroidectomy in cooperation with University of Sheffield in united kingdom through prof.Ahmed Halawa and surgical department in new mansoura general hospital ( International ) through the sister renal center program of International society of nephrology. Publications of two books in arabic language with Dr. Doaa Hamed in nutrition in kidney diseas and fasting Ramadan in renal patients.Publications of two books in arabic language with Dr. Doaa Hamed in nutrition in kidney diseas and fasting Ramadan in renal patients.

Interested in continuous medical education specially( CME ) in nephrology field and the areas of interest are Peritoneal Dialysis ( PD ) ,Acute Kidney Injury ( AKI ) , Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy ( CRRT) , Intervental nephrology , Mineral Bone Disesse in Chronic Kidney Disease (MBD-CKD ) , kidney transplantation in addition to nursing and patient education .

SAID S Khamis is currently the Consultant Nephrologist in the Menofyia University Hospitals Egypt and former Professor in Medicine & Nephrology of the same hospital. He’s a member of Egyptian Society of Nephrology (ESN), International Society of Nephrology. (ISN), European Society of Transplant Coordinator Organization (ESTCO), Arab Society of Nephrology & Transplantation (ASNRT) and Saudi Society of Nephrology (SSN). He has published more than 50 articles in national and international medical journals.

Nephrology

Tetsuhiro Tanaka is a current employee at the Division of Nephrology and Endocrinology, the University of Tokyo School of Medicine.He graduated from the University of Tokyo School of Medicine in 1997 and obtained his PhD degree at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine in 2005. He received the Young Investigator Award of the Japanese Society of Nephrology in 2014. He is currently serving as an editorial board member of Kidney International and Clinical and Experimental Nephrology.

Role of chronic hypoxia and hypoxia-inducible gene transcription in the pathogenesis of CKD

Lavinia-Oltița Brătescu completed her Graduation at University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Timisoara, in Romania. From 2007, she worked as a Nephrologist at Sf. Pantelimon International Healthcare Systems Nephrology and Dialysis Medical Center, in Bucharest. From 2012, she became the Chief Physician of the same clinic. From January 2016, Dr. Lavinia-Oltița Brătescu is Chief Physician at Diaverum Morarilor Nephrology and Medical Center in Bucharest, Romania. She completed her PhD in November 2013. Her PhD thesis entitled “The role of iron and hepcidin in pathogenesis of anemia on hemodialysis patients”. For the first time in a study (published in Journal of Renal Nutrition), hepcidin-25 was measured using a commercial competitive ELISA method. Also, Dr. Brătescu has participated in national and international nephrology conference as a speaker and as poster presenter.

Nephrology and Dialysis