5^th Global Nephrologists Annual Meeting April 01-02, 2016 Valencia, Spain

Donald Silverberg Graduated from Medical School University of Manitoba in 1962. He did his Residency in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at the Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota in 1962-1966 and Residency in Nephrology, University of Lund, Sweden in 1966-1967. He worked as Nephrologist University Hospital, Edmonton Canada during l968-1976. Has been living in Israel and practicing nephrology since 1976 in Tel Hashomer and Beilinson and Tel Aviv Medical Center. National Director of Hypertension Control Division, Kupat Holim Sick Fund 1978-1986 (Organizing the detection and treatment of hypertension for the Israeli population)

Sleep apnea and hypertension

Bruce Hendry is President of the UK Renal Association and Emeritus Professor of Renal Medicine at King's College London. He graduated in medicine from the University of Oxford and received his PhD in Biophysics from the University of Cambridge. His major research interests are in the cell and molecular biology of progressive renal fibrosis and in the design of novel therapeutic approaches. His current work is focused on the study of new approaches to the problem of aberrant renal cell proliferation leading to fibrosis; this work includes the use of antisense and small molecule strategies. Recent work has examined the role of antisense as therapy in renal fibrosis and ADPKD and the targeting of T-type calcium channels in glomerular disease. He has clinical research interests in diabetic nephropathy, HIV and the kidney and in polycystic kidney disease

Nephrology

Dr Pearl Pai qualified from the University of Aberdeen, UK, and received her MD from the University of Liverpool. She is the Chief of Service (Department of Medicine) and Chief of Nephrologist at University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen Hospital, Guangdong, China. She is also the Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong. She was a NHS Consultant Physician and Nephrologist in Sunderland Royal Hospital and then Royal Liverpool University Hospital before she returned to Hong Kong in 2012

Dialysis

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

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

Květa Bláhová is an Associate Professor in Dpt of Pediatrics at Charler University and University Hospital Motol in Prague. She received many awards. She has membership in prestigious European societies. She has published numerous papers in reputed Journals

Chronic peritoneal dialysis, End-stage renal disease