Nephrology, Internal Medicine and Kidney Diseases

Levent Yucetin is the director of Antalya Medicalpark Transplant Center Coordination. He studied and trained in Oxford, Cambridge, Harefield transplant centers, Barcelona University and TPM organisation between 1999-2001. He was the president of Turkish Transplant Coordinator\'s Society between 2005-2009, National Key Member of ETCO between 2002-2012. Turkey\'s leader at European Union projects ETPOD,ELIPSY,LIDOPS and ODEQUS. Member of Turkish Health Ministery\'s Transplant Coordinators and Organ Donation board. Trainer of Transplant coordinators at Helath Ministery Certification organisation. He has published more than 29 papers in reputed journals and 10 chapters at 4 repute books.

Kidney transplantation

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

Grande Joseph has worked as a renal pathologist at the Mayo Clinic for more than 20 years. His PhD work in pathology from the University of Chicago\'s Medical Scientist Training Program focused on the effects of hyperlipidemia and mechanical force on collagen production by aortic smooth muscle cells. After receiving post-doctoral training in pathology at the University of Michigan in 1991, he established an NIH-funded experimental renal research program at Mayo. Dr. Grande\'s research interests have focused on signaling mechanisms leading to chronic renal disease, with emphasis on inflammation, TGF-beta signaling, and a role of phosphodiesterase inhibitors in abrogating this process. He has collaborated with clinical nephrologists in basic, translational, and clinical studies related to a potential role of fish oil in preventing chronic renal disease, IgA nephropathy in particular. He has served as the study pathologist for DeKAF, an NIH-funded study to define histopathologic features of chronic renal allograft dysfunction. For this project, a number of quantitative histopathologic approaches to assess chronic renal disease, inflammation, and innate immune system activation were developed. More recently, his work has focused on critical signaling pathways responsible for chronic renal injury in renovascular hypertension.

Renal pathology, Understanding of basic mechanisms of fibrogenesis

Phuong-Thu Pham is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Nephrology Division, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Director of Outpatient Services, Kidney Transplant Program. Her special areas of interest include new onset diabetes mellitus after transplantation, pretransplant cardiovascular screening, post-transplant cardiovascular disease, glomerular disease recurrence following transplantation, BK virus screening and management following kidney transplantation, and acute and chronic kidney injury following liver transplantation. Her interests in these topics 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 also served as a reviewer for over twenty major journals and an editorial board member for the Case Reports in Nephrology and Transplantation Technologies and Research journals.

Renal transplantation

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