Chairs
Evenepoel, Pieter
- University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Pieter Evenepoel is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Adjunct Head of Nephrology at the University Hospital (UZ), Catholic University of Leuven (KU), Leuven, Belgium. Professor Evenepoel’s main research interests include the pharmacokinetics and toxicity of gut-derived uraemic retention solutes and chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD). He is currently an Ordinary Council Member of the European Renal Association (ERA). Professor Evenepoel is also a member of the American Society of Nephrology, the Belgian Society of Nephrology, the Dutch speaking-Belgian Society of Nephrology. He is currently co-chair of the bone section of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) CKD-MBD Working Group, chair of the European Renal Osteodystrophy (EUROD), an initiative of the ERA CKD-MBD Working Group, as well as board member of the European Uremic Toxin (EUTox) Working Group. Pieter Evenepoel is theme editor for CKD for Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation and a member of the editorial board of Kidney International, he is also currently an ad-hoc reviewer for several journals, including the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, The Lancet, and the European Heart Journal. Professor Evenepoel has contributed to over 330 publications (Hirsch index 86) in peer-reviewed journals and has authored chapters in books such as Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology and Primer on Kidney Diseases.