2^nd Global Summit on Nephrology, Urology and Kidney Transplantation August 28-30, -0001 Philadelphia, USA

Michelis has been Director of the Division of Nephrology at Lenox Hill Hospital for more than three decades. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Michelis received a B.A. at Columbia College, Columbia University in New York City, and his M.D. degree at George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He received his nephrology training at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Michelis has been selected for inclusion in the listing of top doctors in New York for the past several years. He is the co-Editor of several medical textbooks, and he has published dozens of articles in the area of general nephrology, electrolyte disorders, hypertension, and geriatric renal disease. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Hawaii, Japan, and in various European cities. He has served on the editorial board of several medical journals, and he also reviews articles for established journals in nephrology. He has received many awards and lectureships for his work in nephrology.

Nephrology

Phuong-Thu Pham is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Outpatient Services of the Kidney Transplant Program at UCLA Medical Center. Her major areas of interest include recurrence of glomerular diseases following primary renal transplantation, new onset diabetes after transplantation, BK virus screening andrnmanagement after kidney transplantation, the link between hypomagnesemia and renal function decline in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 as well asrnin recipients of kidney transplant and acute and chronic kidney injury following liver transplantation. Her interests have resulted in publications in well-known Nephrology textbooks and journals as well as invitations to speak at both national and international meetings. She has written over 20 book chapters for major Nephrology and solid organ transplantation textbooks including Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology, Textbook of Organ Transplantation, Transplantation of thernLiver, Pancreas, islet and stem cell transplantation for diabetes, Chronic Kidney Disease: Dialysis and Transplantation, and Handbook of Kidney Transplantation.rnShe has also served as Moderator for transplant-related conferences at the American Society of Nephrology and World Congress of Nephrology, EditorialrnBoard Member for the Case Reports in Nephrology and Transplantation Technologies and Research journals and Member of the Organizing Committee for thernInternational Conference on Nephrology and Therapeutics.

Renal Transplant

Anil K. Mandal is a native of India and a naturalized citizen of the United States. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology (kidney disease and hypertension). He is an author of a dozen books and more than 100 published articles on research in diabetes and kidney disease. He is a two-time Fulbright Scholar and a visiting professor in 23 countries that invited him to lecture on diabetes, high blood pressure, and kidney diseases.

Diabetes, ESRD, non-dialysis treatment, kidney disease

Paulo Roberto Santos is Associate Professor at Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, and coordinates the Graduate Program in Health Sciences of the Sobral Faculty of Medicine. His main research interests are self-perceived outcomes (quality of life, depression, coping strategies and sexuality) among end-stage renal disease patients.

Kidney, Nephrology

Frank Daly, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. He received his Doctorate in anatomy & neurobiology in 1997 from Boston University School of Medicine and pursued postdoctoral studies at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. Dr. Daly teaches gross anatomy & embryology in the osteopathic medical clinical skills course and is course director for gross anatomy, histology and embryology for the dental students. He is the director of the anatomical donor program for the University and the State of Maine.

Nephrology