Speakers
Goumenos, Dimitrios
- University of Patras, Greece
Professor Dimitrios S. Goumenos, born in Piraeus in 1958, graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens in 1982. He trained in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at the Laikon General Hospital in Athens and received a two-year fellowship from the Alexandros Onasis Foundation for further training at the Sheffield Kidney Institute, UK. In Sheffield, he worked as an Honorary Registrar and Clinical and Research Fellow, focusing on the management of glomerulonephritis and the study of renal scarring.
Returning to Greece in 1994, he joined the Medical School of the University of Athens, where he researched growth factors in renal scarring. In 1997, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University Hospital of Patras, becoming Associate Professor in 2005 and Full Professor and Head of the Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation in 2009. His research includes the management of glomerulonephritis, mechanisms of progression of kidney disease, obesity-related glomerulopathy, the role of transgelin and transglutaminase in renal scarring, and proteomics.
He has contributed to the COST network WG1 (Eurocup) on proteomics in kidney injury and to the ERA Immunonephrology Group, participating in the VALIGA studies on IgA nephropathy. He is involved in the Cost Connect action on cognitive impairment in CKD and is developing a biobank at the University of Patras for new biomarkers in early stages of CKD. With 180 publications, 3300 citations and an h-index of 31, he served as President of the Hellenic Society of Nephrology (2014-2016) and Dean of the University of Patras Medical School (2015-2020). He was honoured as a Distinguished Fellow of the European Renal Association (2014) and served on its Council and Advisory Boards. He is currently Secretary General of the European Renal Association.