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Officers
Secretary
General
Pierre Cochat |
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Professor of Pediatrics, Université Claude
Bernard Lyon 1
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Edouard-Herriot,
Lyon
Coordinator, Pediatric Renal Transplantation Programme, Lyon
Coordinator, Reference Centre for Rare Renal Diseases, Lyon
Dean, Faculté de Médecine RTH Laennec, Lyon
Member of the Conseil National des Universités
Council member, International Pediatric Nephrology Association (Chair,
Educational Committee)
MAIN FIELDS OF INVESTIGATION
1. Inherited renal diseases - Urolithiasis
2. Pediatric renal transplantation - Post-transplantation recurrent
diseases
3. Kidney-bone interface
4. Nephrotoxicity |
Assistant
Secretary
Rosanna Coppo |
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Director, Nephrology, Dialysis and
Transplantation Unit. Regina Margherita Children's University Hospital,
Turin.
Scientific activity/Area of Research :
• Basic and Experimental Nephrology (experimental models of IgA
Nephropathy; pathogenetical mechanisms of glomerular diseases and of
progression of renal damage),
• Clinical Nephrology (renal immunopathology, treatment of glomerular
diseases, renal vasculitis. European Concerted Action: IgACE trial,
Italian Registry of renal biopsies in children, Italian multicenter
study on Henoch-Schoenlein nephritis, treatment of glomerular diseases)
• Dialysis and Transplantation (Biocompatibility in hemo and peritoneal
dialysis; immunosuppressive drug toxicity, kidney transplantation in
children, recurrence of IgA Nephropathy in transplanted kidneys).
Chairperson ERA-EDTA CME courses
Board of Nephrology at the European Union of Specialist Medical Doctors
UEMS. |
Treasurer
Dieter Haffner |
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Since 2005: Director of the Department of
Pediatrics and of the Dialysis and Transplant Unit at the University
Children’s Hospital Rostock, Germany.
Elected to the Council of the ESPN in 2007.
Section editor of Pediatric Nephrology: Chronic renal failure and
clinical nephrology
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Areas of interest: |
Growth, bone and mineral disorders in CKD
Pathophysiology and treatment of x-linked hypophosphatemic rickets
Management of lupus nephritis |
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| Council
members |
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Velibor Tasic |
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| Elena
Levtchenko |
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Adjunct-Chief of the
Department of Paediatric Nephrology, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium
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Main areas of
interest: |
Renal tubular
disorders
Cystinosis
Nephrotic syndrome
Cell models of renal disease. |
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Rezan Topaloglu |
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Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric
Nephrologist at Hacettepe University.
Elected to the Council of the ESPN in 2009.
2002-2005 - Section Editor of Renal Hereditary Diseases of Journal of
Pediatric Nephrology, .
Since 2005 - Section Editor of Immunolgy and Glomerular Disease of
Journal of Pediatric Nephrology.
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interests - |
Chronic
renal failure
Transplantation
Tubular disorders
Cystinosis
IgA nephropathy
Nephrotic syndrome |
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Tatjana Nastausheva |
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Professor, Chief of Paediatric Department of
Voronezh State Medical Academy.
Coordinator of International Programm "Health enhancement of orphans of
Voronezh region".
Honorary Senior Lecturer for courses "Adolescent medicine".
Consultant pediatric nephrologist at Voronezh Regional Children's
Hospital.
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Main fields of investigation: |
1 Tubulointerstitial diseases in children.
2 Diabetic nephropathy in children and adolescents.
3 Renal vasculitis.
4 Nephrotic syndrome. |
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Empar Lurbe |
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Professor of Pediatrics, Head of the
Department of Pediatrics of the Hospital General, Valencia and
Coordinator of the Cardiovascular Risk Unit in Children and Adolescents
in the Valencian Community.
Previously a Research Fellow in Hypertension at the Northwestern
University Medical School of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA, and a
Fellow for the Council for High Blood Pressure of the American Heart
Association. She has established a Research Unit dedicated to studying
cardiovascular risk factors in children and adolescents. |
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Tomáš Seeman |
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Head of the Paediatric
Renal Transplantation Program in the Czech Republic.
Associated Professor at the Department of Paediatrics, University
Hospital Motol, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic.
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Main interests: |
Arterial hypertension
Polycystic kidney disease
Renal transplantation |
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Sverker Hansson |
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Head, Department of Pediatrics, The Queen
Silvia Children's Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden.
Main interests: Pediatric transplantation,
Urinary tract infection, Vesicoureteral reflux
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Tim Ulinski |
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Consultant Pediatric Nephrologist at the
Armand Trousseau Hospital in Paris, France.
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research is focused on: |
Treatment
strategies in steroid resistant and steroid dependent nephrotic
syndrome
Cardiovascular involvement in pediatric end-stage renal failure
Renal anomalies related to alterations of hepatocyte nuclear factor
(HNF) 1 beta
The role of CCN protein family for glomerular diseases in childhood |
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