Professor Carmine Zoccali
Professor of Nephrology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics (Biogem), Ariano Irpino, Italy
Speaker's biography
Dr. Zoccali is a clinical Investigator presently associated with the Renal Research Institute, NY, USA; the Institute of Biology and Molecular Genetics (BIOGEM), Ariano Irpino, Italy; and IPNET, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
Dr. Zoccali’s research interests cover hypertension, cardiovascular complications in chronic renal failure, renal disease progression, and the epidemiology of chronic renal failure. He has contributed over 900 PubMed-indexed publications in peer-reviewed journals, and as of April 17th, 2025, he has an H-Index (Google Scholar) of 137 (82 during the last 5 years). Dr. Zoccali has served as the Chief Editor of Nephrology, Dialysis, and Transplantation. He is an active editorial board member of CJASN, Hypertension, the European Journal of Clinical Investigation (as an Associate Editor), NDT, CKJ (also as an Associate Editor), Clinical Nephrology, and several other internal medicine and nephrology journals.
Dr. Zoccali has been President of the European Renal Association – European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) for the 2017-2020 triennium. He chaired the Registry of Dialysis and Transplantation of the same association from 2003 to May 2009. A member of 10 national and international societies of Nephrology and Hypertension, he received international awards from the American Kidney Foundation and the Borelli Foundation. Dr. Zoccali is a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (FASN), of the ERA-EDTA (FERA), and of the American Kidney Foundation (FNKF) and an honorary Member of the Spanish Society of Nephrology and the Polish Society of Nephrology.
