6th Annual conference on Clinical & Pediatric Nephrology May 09-10, 2016 New Orleans,Louisiana, USA

Pedro A. Jose, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine and Physiology, George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences. He received an MD degree (magna cum laude, meritissimus, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, placed first in the Philippine National Board Examinations) and a PhD degree in Physiology (dissertation defended with distinction) from Georgetown University. His publications (>380) have been cited more than 8,500 times. He has received several academic awards, e.g., 2003 Lewis K. Dahl Memorial Lecture, 2007 Ernest H. Starling Lecture, 2015 Excellence Award for Hypertension Research, and an NIH MERIT Award. He holds two US patents related to BP.

Pediatrics and nephrology

Dr. Bouchard received his PhD from Laval University, Canada and pursued his postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria. He joined McGill University in 2003 and is currently Associate Professor at the Goodman Cancer Research Centre and in the Department of Biochemistry. His research focuses on the developmental genetics of renal diseases using the mouse as a model system.

Renal diseases

Dr. Xiaorong Liu is currently a professor and Chief Physician, Director of Department of Nephrology, Beijing Children's Hospital affiliated with Capital Medical University, Director of the Beijing Children's Blood-Purification Center. She is a member of Beijing Blood Purification Center of Quality Control and Improvement Committee, a member of nephropathy rheumatology group, Pediatrics Branch, Beijing Medical Society, a member of Kidney Disease Committee of Beijing Traditional Chinese Medical Society, and a member of Therapeutic Medicine Research Committee of Pharmacological Society of China. Dr. Liu is a Standing Committee member of Physicians Association of China, an Editorial Board member of Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics, Chinese Journal of Practical Pediatrics, Journal of Pediatric Grand Rounds. She has participated in and presided over National 863-Projects, Fifteenth-Five Year Plan of China Projects, the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission’s Characteristics of the Capital Projects, Development of Capital’s Business and Industry Projects. Prof. Liu has published more than 40 papers, and ten of them in Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatric Pulmonlogy, Medicine and other high-caliber journals and have been included in SCI.

Pediatric Nephrology

He is a pioneer in the field of Peritoneal Dialysis Internationally and Cadaver Kidney Transplantation(http://blogs.hbr.org/2012/11/a-great-ideafor-lowering-cost/) and well known in the areas of Chronic Kidney Disease Management, Critical Care Nephrology including CRRT, Liver Dialysis(MARS & FPSA; Prometheus: Largest series in the Country).He was responsible for the Country’s first Simultaneous Heart and Kidney Transplantation(SHK). A Member of various Task Forces & Committees that has developed Best Practice Guidelines CKD and Anaemia management. He is the Chief Co-ordinator of the Asia Pacific Chapter for ISPD and Past Councillor of ISPD. He successfully held the prestigious 2nd Asian Chapter Meeting of the ISPD, Hyderabad in January 2005 and Co-Director of the 3rd Hemodialysis University TMof ISHD at Hyderabad, March 2014(http://hdu2014.com/).He is an Internationally acknowledged expert in Telemedicine in Dialysis(http://blogs.hbr.org/2012/04/howtelemedicinesaves- lives-a/), Reverse ‘Medical’ Innovation & Medical Tourism. He has contributed extensively in International Journals such as KI,AJKD, JASN,NDT, Transplantation Proceedings, PDI, Nephrology, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Contributions to Nephrology etc.

Peritoneal Dialysis,Cadaver Kidney Transplantation,Chronic Kidney Disease Management, Critical Care Nephrology including CRRT, Liver Dialysis,CKD and Anaemia management