Editorial Team

Editors-in-Chief

Ramin Sam, MD, Professor
School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Research areas: Hemodialysis, Transjugular kidney biopsy, Lipoprotein glomerulopathy, Proteinuria, Hemolysis in hemodialysis, Vaccination in hemodialysis patients, Metformin induced renal failure, Renal disease in liver disease
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Takashi Shigematsu, MD, PhD, Professor
Director of Nephrology & Blood Purification Medicine. Rinku General Medical Center (RGMC) Osaka, Japan
Research areas: Renal bone disease, CKD related Mineral Bone Disease, Atherosclerosis, vascular calcification, Blood Purification, Acute Kidney Injury, Osteoporosis, Vitamin D, Nutrition, Obesity, malnutrition, sarcopenia, Frail, Aging
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Editorial Board

Varun Agrawal
University of Vermont, USA
Research areas: Nephrology and Hypertension
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Frank N Burks
William Beaumont Oakland University School of Medicine, USA
Research areas: Urologic trauma, Urethral stricture management and treatment, Fistula (male and female)
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Ben H. Chew
University of British Columbia, Canada
Research areas: Stone disease, Endourology, Biomaterials, Stents, Infection
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Benjamin Chung
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Research areas: Urologic cancers; Robotic radical prostatectomy; Prostate cancer
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Marcello Cimador
University of Palermo, Italy
Research areas: Pediatric urology
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Bernard Jaar
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, USA
Research areas: Epidemiology, Chronic kidney disease, End-stage renal disease
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Evangelos Liatsikos
University of Patras, Greece
Research areas: Endourology, laparoscopy, robotics
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Martin Loss
University of Regensburg Medical Center, USA
Research areas: Transplantation, Immunology, Kidney transplantation, Surgery
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Erling B Pedersen
University of Aarhus and Holstebro Hospital, Denmark
Research areas: Hypertension, Renovascular hypertension, Acute renal failure, Water and electrolytes disturbances, Vasculitis, Lupus nephritis
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Wajeh Qunibi
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA
Research areas: Mineral metabolism, Cardiovascular disease in CKD, Anemia of CKD
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Prabhakar Rajan
Cancer Research UK Barts Centre, UK
Research areas: Urological oncology, Translational research, Lithotripsy, Urolithiasis, Functional urology
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Andreas Schnitzbauer
University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Research areas: Renal transplantation, Immunosuppression, Complications
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Petros Sountoulidis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Research areas: Urology, Prostate cancer, Stone disease and minimally invasive therapies for BP
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Howard Trachtman
NYU Langone Medical Center, NJ, USA
Research areas: Glomerular disease, hypertension, HUS
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