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1992 he also became a senior consultant nephrologist at the Sophiahemmet Royal Hospital in Stockholm. He was awarded his Ph.D. by the Divisions of Renal Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences and the Endocrine & Diabetes Unit, Department of Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet in 1998. He was one of the pioneers of CAPD both in Sweden (Lund, 1980) and Brazil (Sorocaba, 1984) ¿as well as on-line convective therapies in Sweden (Stockholm 1994). In 1999, he joined Baxter Renal Division and worked initially as a Medical Director for the Renal Division Europe based in Brussels, then as Medical Vice-President for Latin America based in Mexico City and lastly for ECEMEA (Eastern and Central Europe, Middle East and Africa) based in Zurich. From 2011 through 2015 worked as Vice-President for Home Therapies for Diaverum Health Care. He has also, in the last few years in an intermittent fashion, worked as a senior clinical consultant nephrologist at the Karolinska University Huddinge and SÖS hospitals as well as in dialysis clinics in Sweden, also cooperating with several nephrology groups around the world (especially Brazil, Latin America, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Europe) and currently represents Latin America on the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis Council.



Claudio Ronco, MDFull professor of Nephrology at the University of Padova. Director of the Department of Nephrology and the International Renal Research Institute (IRRIV) at San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy. He graduated in 1976 and specialized in nephrology at the University of Padua in 1979. He has been Director of the Laboratory of the RRI and Beth Israel MC in New York and Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is an External Professor at the University of Virginia of Charlottesville as well as Fudan and Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities. He received an honorary degree from the University of Patras. He has authored 1294 papers, 70 books and 125 book chapters and delivered more than 850 lectures at international meetings. He has an H-index of 116. He is Editor-in-Chief of Blood Purification, Contributions to Nephrology, Cardiorenal Medicine and Editor emeritus of the International Journal of Artificial Organs. He has received several international awards and is considered a pioneer in many areas of nephrology including peritoneal dialysis, critical care nephrology, CRRT, cardiorenal syndromes and wearable dialysis technology. He invented the first CRRT machine for neonates CARPEDIEM (Cardio Renal Pediatric Dialysis Emergency Machine).