Deputy Chief, Nephrology Ward, General Hospital of Vienna, Vienna (Austria)
Approved by Diagnose.me Medical Advisory Board on 24 Jun 2016
Specialised in all forms of diabetes also coupled with other challenging conditions such as chronic kidney disease, kidney transplantation, dialysis, and hypertension with over 4,000 patients treated.
I have 15 years of experience in nephrology and internal medicine. I am a professor at the Medical University of Vienna, on the board of the Nephrology and Dialysis at the Wilhelminenspital of the City of Vienna, and the deputy chief of the Nephrology Ward at the General Hospital of Vienna. Since 2010, I have been a board member of the Austrian Society of Nephrology and served as its congress president in 2014.
I am an active researcher with over 100 medical articles published, a reviewer or editorial board member for a number of medical journals, a PhD supervisor, and a recipient of multiple awards.
I focus on kidney diseases, kidney transplantation, diabetes, dialysis, and hypertension. I have treated over 4,000 patients.
My research interests:
Cardiovascular Focus:
- Diabetic Kidney Disease
- HDL in Chronic Kidney Disease
- Post-Transplant Diabetes mellitus (PTDM)
- Biomarkers in Chronic Kidney Disease
- Renin-Angiotensin System: Novel therapeutics
- Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in Chronic Kidney Disease
- Gender and Chronic Kidney Disease
- Combined Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation
- Tuberous Sclerosis
- Hereditary Amyloidosis
Immunological Focus:
- Immunosuppression after Organ Transplantation
- Transplant Immunosuppression
- Transplant-associated Microangiopathy
- Transplant Infection
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