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Guest Speaker Bio

Education and degrees obtained:

Engineering degree and PhD degree in cybernetics and biocybernetics, both from the Czech Technical University in Prague
Associate Professor of Biophysics at the 1st Medical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague

Experience in dialysis:

over 45 years at the post of a clinical engineer (General University Hospital, Prague)

Main research interests in dialysis field:

dialysis adequacy, vascular access, water treatment
Publication activities: over 50 papers registered in PubMed and 250 citations in SCI

Posts and acivities in the EDTNA/ERCA:

Executive Committee member, Secretary of the annual conference, Editor of the EDTNA/ERCA Journal, Editor of two EDTNA/ERCA monographs (Water treatment and Urea Kinetic Modelling), Chief co-ordinator of the international multicentre EDTNA/ERCA project „Water for dialysis“
Golden Medal EDTNA/ERCA and Life-time membership

Guest Speaker Bio

Qualifications

Registered Nurse, PhD

Present professional position and workplace

Ann is Professor of Nursing and Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery (QS 2022 ranking - #26 in the world), Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia; Visiting Research Fellow, Kidney Health Service, Metro North, Brisbane; and Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom.

A special experience, education etc.

Ann has over 30-years’ experience in kidney nursing as a clinician, educator, and researcher. She is an invited member of the 2022 World Kidney Day Steering Committee. In 2021 she was inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. Ann is long standing member of the EDTNA/ERCA and on the editorial board for the Journal of Renal Care, and is a life-member of the Renal Society of Australasia.

Professor Van Biesen does clinical, basic and translational research in the field of nephrology, evidence based medicine and patient participation. He published more than 450 papers on different scientific topics, including artificial intelligence, quality assessment, and ethical and philosophical topics. He has been involved in many international collaborations. He is vice-chair of EuroPD and ex-chair of European Renal Best Practice. He is the current chief of the nephrology department in University Hospital Gent, and co-founder of the Consortium of Justifiable Digital Healthcare.

Guest Speaker Bio

Fiona Loud has been policy director of Kidney Care UK since 2013. Previously Director of the Kidney Alliance, she led and co-authored a kidney community review of kidney care, Kidney Health: Delivering Excellence. She is involved with numerous other groups, working to improve standards of care for kidney patients. She set up and chaired the UK Renal Registry patient council and has contributed as a lay representative to many of the kidney guidelines produced by NICE (the National Institute of Health and Social Care). She is lay chair of a local hospital organ donation committee and vice chair of her local kidney patient association at another local hospital. Fiona spent 5 years on dialysis after her kidneys failed, before receiving a transplant from her husband in late 2006. She has a genetic condition called tuberous sclerosis which alongside 2 episodes of kidney cancer led to her kidneys failing. She is a Fellow of the British Renal Society and was one of the Health Service Journal Top 50 patient leaders. She was profiled in the Lancet.

Guest Speaker Bio

Qualifications

Lizzi has a PhD in Solid State Physics at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Health Research from the University of Leeds.

Present professional position and workplace

Although Lizzi has officially retired after 35 years working as a Clinical Scientist for the National Health Service (33 in renal care), she is still helping out at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

A special experience, education etc.

Lizzi was an active volunteer for EDTNA/ERCA from 1993 to 2020 as EDTNA representative on the EDTA Registry Scientific Committee, member of the Research Board and various working groups, Journal Club Manager and RenalPro moderator. She was also a member of the European Renal Association’s Best Practice Advisory Board (ERBP) and the UK Renal Association’s Clinical Practice Guidelines committee. Her most recent publications are on incremental dialysis and the measurement of residual kidney function in HD patients.

Guest Speaker Bio

Qualifications

I am a RN, Msc, working as nurse practitioner in the field of peritoneal dialysis, and nephro - geriatrics, since completing the master for advanced nursing practice in 2010. I am chair of the Dutch special interest group for peritoneal dialysis (V&VN).

Present professional position and workplace

I am working as nurse practitioner at the Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands for the dialysis center and nephrology out clinic.

A special experience, education etc.

Dutch presentations, publications, member organization committee Dutch nephrology Days, publications (PD book, 500 Q&A in PD) and presentations EDTNA/ERCA (2017, 2021) and Journal of renal care, 2017 (exit site care in the Netherlands: the use of guidelines in Practice) and 2020 (Training and education, what has changed this last decade?).

Guest Speaker Bio

Professor Joris Rotmans is an internist-nephrologist and professor and head of the Department of Nephrology of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands. He received his PhD in 2005 at University of Amsterdam on new therapeutic strategies for vascular access for hemodialysis whereupon he started his residency in Internal Medicine. In 2008-2009, he did postdoctoral research on vascular tissue engineering at the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Brisbane, Australia. Since 2010, he combines clinical work as internist-nephrologist with vascular and renal research at the Department of Nephrology of the LUMC Currently, dr. Rotmans is the chair of the Expertise Center Vascular Access at the LUMC. He received a prestigious VIDI grant from NWO that allows him to expand his research group and to continue his research on vascular access for hemodialysis. Dr. Rotmans is president-elect of the Vascular Access Society.

Guest Speaker Bio

Qualifications

Maiken Schjerlund is RN and is employed at the Department of Nephrology at Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark. Her clinical work focuses on the treatment and care of patients with chronic kidney disease, including the involvement of their relatives.

Present professional position and workplace

Clinical Nurse Specialist and responsible for clinical development within renal care, Department of Nephrology, Clinic for Internal Medicine and Acute, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg Denmark

A special experience, education etc.

BA Nursing, MSc. Nursing