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Committees

CONGRESS PRESIDENT
Jerome Harambat

Jérôme Harambat
Unité de Néphrologie
Service de Pédiatrie
CHU de Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France

Local organising committee
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE CHAIR
Claus Peter Schmitt

Claus Schmitt
Centre for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Heidelberg, Germany

Scientific committee members

Glomerular diseases
Olivia Broyer – Chair (France)
Marina Vivarelli (Italy)
Magdalena Drozynska (Poland)
Agnes Trautmann (Germany)
Eugene Chan (Hong Kong)

CAKUT/UTI/Neonatology
Michiel Schreuder – Chair (Netherlands)
Stefanie Weber (Germany)
Lieke Hoogenboom (UK)
Rute Baeta Baptista (Portugal)
Velibor Tasic (Macedonia)
Norman Rosenblum (Canada)

Hereditary / metabolic / tubular diseases (gene therapies)
Elena Levtchenko – Chair (Netherlands)
Wen Ding (UK)
Leire Madariaga Dominguez (Spain)
Aude Servais (France)
Kalman Tory (Hungary)
Larry Greenbaum (USA)

CKD / Dialysis / AKI
Rukshana Shroff – Chair (UK)
Justine Bacchetta (France)
Evelien Snauwaert (Belgium)
Fabio Paglialonga (Italy)
Ayse Agbas (Turkey)
Rute Baptista (Portugal)
David Selewski (USA)

Hypertension, CVD
Manish Sinha – Chair (UK)
Stella Stabouli (Greece)
Karolis Azukaitis (Lithuania)
Mietek Litwin (Poland)
Ali Duzova (Turkey)
Emily Haseler (UK)
Joseph Flynn (USA)

Transplantation
Lars Pape – Chair (Germany)
Agnieszka Prytula (Belgium)
Fabian Eibensteiner (Austria)
Jelena Stojanovic (UK)
Nina Battelino (Slovenia)
Tom Blydt-Hansen (Canada)
Julian Hogan (France)

Pediatric Nephrology Nursing pre-congress course
Matko Marlais – Chair (UK)

ESPN COUNCIL
Francesco Emma – ESPN President
Stella Stabouli – ESPN Assistant President
Jun Oh – ESPN Treasurer
Arend Bökenkamp – Council Member
Ayşe Balat – Council Member
Karolis Azukaitis – Council Member
Malgorzata Mizerska-Wasiak – Council Member
Matko Marlais – Council Member
Leire Madariaga – Council Member
Umut Selda Bayrakci – Council Member
Lars Pape – Council Member
Rute Baeta Baptista – Ex-Officio Member
WORKING GROUPS

CAKUT/UTI/bladder dysfunction
Julia Hoefele – Munich, Germany

 Chronic kidney disease/mineral and bone disorders (CKD-MBD)
Agnieszka Prytula, Ghent, Belgium

Dialysis
Claus Schmitt, Heidelberg, Germany

Glomerular diseases
Louise Oni – Liverpool, UK

Hypertension
Stella Stabouli – Thessaloniki, Greece

                Inherited kidney disease                 Chair to be announced

Meta-Research and Quality of Evidence
Jun Oh – Hamburg, Germany
Karolis Ažukaitis – Vilnius, Lithuania          Jae Il Shin, Seoul, South Korea

Neonatal nephrology
Lieke Hoogenboom – Bristol, UK

Transplantation
Lars Pape – Essen, Germany