Claudio Ronco

Dr. Claudio Ronco is the Director of the Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Programs of St. Bartolo Hospital in Vicenza, Italy, and has been a Professor of Nephrology at the University of Padua since 1989. Dr. Ronco has coauthored 560 papers, 36 book chapters, 26 books, 7 monographic journal issues and has delivered more than 300 lectures in the fields of nephrology, dialysis, transplantation, bioengineering, and intensive care medicine. He has organized several congresses and meetings in the area of nephrology and intensive care. He is a member of several advisory groups for clinical trials and dialysis research. In 1982 he introduced in Italy the use of continuous hemofiltration and in 1986 he published the first series of neonates treated with arteriovenous hemofiltration. He also established the dangerous effect of back filtration in a contaminated dialysis fluid condition.