Chairman

Carmine Zoccali

Unità di Nefrologia, Dialisi, Trapianto e Ipertensione
OO.RR and CNR Istituto di Biomedicina
Laboratorio di Epidemiologia Clinica e Fisiopatologia delle malattie Renali e dell'Ipertensione
Reggio Calabria, Italy

Co-Chairman

Norbert Lameire

Renal Division
Department of Medicine
University Hospital Ghent
Ghent, Belgium

Speakers

Jorge Cannata-Andia

Servicio de Metabolismo Oseo y Mineral
Instituto “Reina Sofía” de Investigación, Hospital Central de Asturias
Oviedo, Spain

Rosanna Coppo

Director of the Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Department
Regina Margherita Hospital
Turin, Italy

Tilman Drueke

Inserm U507 and Service de Nephrologie
Hôpital Necker
Paris, France

Kai-Uwe Eckardt

Chief Nephrology and Hypertension Section
University Hospital Erlangen
Erlangen, Germany

Garabed Eknoyan

Renal Section, Department of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, USA

A.M. El Nahas

Sheffield Kidney Institute
Sheffield Teaching Hospital Trust  
Northern General Hospital Campus
Sheffield, United Kingdom

Jürgen Floege

Head of the II. Medical Clinic (Nephrology and Immunology)

University of Aachen

Josep M. Grinyo

Dept. Nephrology, University Hospital of Bellvitge
University of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain

Michel Jadoul

Service de Nephrologie
Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc
Brussels, Belgium

Markus Ketteler

Chefarzt der III. Med. Klinik
Klinikum Coburg gGmbH
Coburg, Germany

Ronald E LaPorte

Director, Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications
WHO Collaborating Centre
Professor of Epidemiology
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Francesco Locatelli

Director Division of Nephrology and Dialysis
Alessandro Manzoni Hospital
Lecco, Italy

Giampaolo Merlini

Department of Biochemistry
University Hospital
Policlinico S. Matteo
Pavia, Italy

Ton J. Rabelink

Department of Nephrology, C3-P
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands

Giuseppe Remuzzi

Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Researches
Negri Bergamo Laboratories
Bergamo, Italy

Eberhard Ritz

Dept. Internal Medicine
Division Nephrology
Heidelberg, Germany

John Scoble

Renal Unit
Guy’s Hospital
London, United Kingdom

Peter Stenvinkel

Dept of Renal Medicine K56
Huddinge University Hospital
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden

Wim Van Biesen

Dept of Nephrology
University Hospital Ghent
Ghent, Belgium

Christoph Wanner

Bayerische-Julius-Maximilans University
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Würzburg, Germany

David Wheeler

Centre for Nephrology

Royal Free & Univ. College Med. School
London, United Kingdom