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Vice President of Medical Information and Education, Fresenius Medical Care Europe/Middle East/Africa. Fatih Kircelli leads the medical information and education team throughout Fresenius Medical Care’s Europe/Middle East/Africa region. His team provides medical expertise to all related departments on the company’s product portfolio and therapies. He is a nephrologist with over 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Fatih Kircelli received his associate professor degree in nephrology in 2012.

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Xia Tao currently leads the clinical and laboratory research teams at Renal Research Institute. She received her Bachelor of Medicine from Guangxi Medical University in China and PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, at Lowell. She has a clinical background combined with research experience in the fields of drug discovery, medical device design and validation, and clinical research. She has expertise in development of therapies for better removal of uremic toxin.

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Doctor Stefano Stuard supports the Fresenius Medical Care NephroCare medical leadership in his role as chief clinical officer for the EMEA region in the Global Medical Office. Dr. Stuards’ distinguished career includes nearly a decade with Fresenius Medical Care in clinical governance roles for the company’s EMEA and Latin American regions. He has served as a consultant / director for Nephrology and Dialysis Departments in Italian public and private hospitals. Dr. Stuard received his Ph.D. in Nephrology from the University of Bologna in Italy, and his Doctor of Medicine and surgery with a postgraduate diploma in nephrology from the University of Chieti in Italy. He is the author of more than 150 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and has an H-score of 26.

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Professor Madhukar Misra is currently Zbylut J Twardowski Distinguished Professor of Nephrology at the University of Missouri Columbia USA. He is also the Program Director for the Nephrology Fellowship Program, Director for Acute Inpatient Dialysis, Chronic outpatient Dialysis and Medicine Specialty Clinics at University of Missouri Health Care. After finishing his training in Internal Medicine (MD) in India, he moved to the UK to specialize in Nephrology. He started his Nephrology training with Professor John Walls (Past President of British Renal Association) at Leicester General Hospital in the UK. He later trained at the Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust at the University of London, UK with Prof Edwina Brown. He subsequently moved to the USA and completed a Fellowship in Nephrology under Zbylut J Twardowski, Karl D Nolph and Ramesh Khanna at the University of Missouri Columbia. He is Board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. Professor Misra is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology and the American College of Physicians. Professor Misra is the Deputy Editor of Hemodialysis International and Associate Editor of Advances in Peritoneal Dialysis. His research interests include preservation of residual renal function on dialysis and alternative hemodialysis schedules. He has published over 100 research papers in the field of dialysis in prestigious journals like New England Journal of Medicine and Kidney International etc. He is the author of several book chapters in prestigious textbooks of dialysis. He has also edited 2 books in the field of dialysis. Professor Misra is the immediate past President of the International Society for Hemodialysis (ISHD) and is currently the Director of Education for the ISHD. He is also the chairman of the Hemodialysis section of the Annual Dialysis Conference, the largest multidisciplinary conference of dialysis professionals in the world. His biggest passion is to expand the reach of high-quality educational tools in hemodialysis all over the world to improve quality and enhance safety in hemodialysis. He has organized several widely attended courses in Hemodialysis across the world in USA as well as Asia.

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