Speakers
Ortiz, Alberto
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Prof. Alberto Ortiz, MD, PhD, FERA is Head of Nephrology and Hypertension at the , Spain), Professor of Medicine at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), European Renal Association (ERA) Chair of the Registry, as well as Clinical Science Chair elect, and coordinator of the Spanish Kidney Research Network (REDINREN, RICORS2040) and SPACKDc (ISCIII Precision Medicine initiative on CKD genomics). He received the 2020 ERA Award for Research Excellence. In December 2023, he co-chaired the KDIGO Controversies Conference on Maintaining Kidney Health and Preventing CKD.
He trained as a nephrologist and completed his PhD at Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Kidney Journal (2014-2022).
His research interests include the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the pathogenesis and treatment of acute kidney injury and CKD.