Recognition & Awards
International Distinguished Medal Recipients
The International Distinguished Medal was established in 1990 to honor the achievement of individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of kidney disease and extended the goals of the National Kidney Foundation. The Foundation President presents medals each year to recognize the accomplishments of individuals through their clinical work, roles in academia, scientific discoveries or volunteer work in organizations similar to the Foundation.
Jianghua Chen, MD
Professor Jianghua Chen is now the chief of Kidney Disease Center, 1st Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University. He is the Associate Director of the Chinese Hemodialysis Association of CMA (Chinese Medical Association), Associate Director and general secretary of Chinese scientific registry of kidney transplantation, Associate Director of the Key Laboratory of Multiple Organ Transplantation, Ministry of Health, Chief Director of Zhejiang Province branch of CMA, Chief Director of Zhejiang Province branch of Chinese Nephrology Association of CMA. Dr. Chen is majoring in the prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease, blood purification therapy and renal transplantation. He is leading 15 undergoing scientific projects and has gained 8 awards of accomplished projects. 57 SCI papers have been published by the research group directed by Prof. Jianghua Chen.
Raymond Krediet, MD
Raymond (Ray) Krediet graduated in 1973 at the University of Amsterdam. In 1978, he completed his training as an internist-nephrologist and became head of nephrology at the Binnengasthuis in 1979, where he introduced treatment with continuous ambulatory dialysis (CAPD). In 1986, he was promoted on a PhD thesis, entitled "Peritoneal permeability in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients". In 1999 he became Professor and Head of the Department of Nephrology at the Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam.
Professor Krediet supervised the research of 26 PhD students and is author of 470 publications in scientific journals. His h-index is 51.
He is among others former chairman of the Dialysis Group Netherlands, the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis and the Nephrology Section of the European Union for Medical Specialists. He retired October 2010, but is still involved in research and a number of academic and organisational activities.
Philip Li, MD
Prof. Philip Kam-Tao Li is the Chief of Nephrology & Consultant Physician of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at the Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH), Hong Kong. He is also the Honorary Professor of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Li is dedicating his efforts to promote nephrology both locally and internationally. Prof. Li serves in the in the Council of International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis and the Executive Council of the Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology. He is in the Board of Directors for Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcome (KDIGO) and is the Steering Committee Member for World Kidney Day as well as the Executive Committee Member of the Asian Forum for CKD Initiatives. He is the Past Chairman of the Hong Kong Society of Nephrology and Past President of the Hong Kong Transplantation Society respectively and has served in the Executive Committee of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN).
Prof. Li has been the Presidents of the Organizing Committees for the ISN 2004 Conference on Prevention of Progression of Kidney Diseases and the 11th International Congress of International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, 2006 respectively. He was the Scientific Vice President and Program Chair, 2nd Congress of International Society for Hemodialysis, 2009. Prof. Li is the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee and Scientific Co-chair for the World Congress of Nephrology 2013 to be held in Hong Kong. He serves as the Honorary Secretary for the Hong Kong College of Physicians.
Prof. Li is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Hong Kong Journal of Nephrology, Deputy Editor of Nephrology and Editor of the Nephrology Dialysis & Transplantation and International Journal of Artificial Organs. He is on the Editorial Boards of Clinical Nephrology, Peritoneal Dialysis International, Chinese Journal of Nephrology, Dialysis & Transplantation, Medical Progress and Indian Journal of Peritoneal Dialysis. He is a regular reviewer for all the major Nephrology Journals. He has published over 400 original and review articles in peer-reviewed journals, 2 books and 17 book chapters. He has given lectures to over 100 international congresses and meetings.
His research interests include Peritoneal dialysis (Residual Renal Function, Cardiovascular Disease, Connectology, Peritonitis, Biocompatible solutions Adequacy), Cardiovascular mortality in dialysis patients, IgA nephropathy, Prevention of Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease, Diabetes in renal failure and Immunogenetics of Nephropathies, Drug Pharmacokinetics and Complications after transplantation.
Peter Stenvinkel, MD
Peter Stenvinkel serves as a professor and senior lecturer at Dept. of Renal Medicine Huddinge University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. He has published more than 325 original publications and reviews and 25 book chapters on various aspects of inflammation, wasting and metabolism in chronic kidney disease patients. His Hirsch index is 49. He has given more than 230 invited lectures at various international meetings and congresses in about 30 different countries. He has received prize for the best Swedish thesis in diabetology 1994 and was a Baxter Extramural Grant awardee 1996. He was a Karolina Price awardee 2005 and a Vizenca price awardee 2009. He received the Addis Gold medal by the ISRNM for nutritional research 2010. He is a member of the council of International Society of Nephrology (2007-) and ERA-EDTA (2007-2010). He is an associate Editor of NDT and editor-in-chief on NDT-E. He received an honorary membership of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology 2010 and of the Polish Society of Nephrology in 2012.
Past International Medal Recipients:
2011
Nan Chen, MD, China
Angela, D'Angelo, MD, Italy
Ron T. Gansevoort, MD, PhD, The Netherlands
David C. Wheeler, MD, FRCP, United Kingdom
2010
Jonathan Craig, MD, Australia
Alison MacLeod, MD, United Kingdom
Dimitrios Oreopoulos, MD, Canada
Paul E. de Jong, MD, The Netherlands
2009
Guillermo Garcia, MD
Donal O'Donoghue, MD
Gregorio T. Obrador, MD, MPH
Kim Solez, MD, FRCP
2008
Bernard Charra, MD, France
Wendy Hoy, MBBS, BScMed, FRACP, Australia
Michel Jadoul, MD, Belgium
Yves Vanrenterghem, MD, PhD, Belgium
2007
Mona Al-Rukhaimi, MD, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dick de Zeeuw, MD, PhD, Groningen, The Netherlands
Sayyid Ali Jaffer Naqvi, MD, Karachi, Pakistan
Susumu Takahashi, MD, PhD, Tokyo, Japan
Christoph Wanner, MD, Wurzburg, Germany
2006
Jorge Cannata-Andia, MD, Oviedo, Spain
Prakesh Keshaviah, MD, Dehradun, Uttaranchal, India
Gabriel Mircescu, MD, Bucharest, Romania
Yusuke Tsukamoto, MD, Tokyo, Japan
Haiyan Wang, MD, Beijing, China
2005
John Dirks, MD, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Saraladevi Naicker, MD, Johannesburg, South Africa
Luis Revert, MD, Barcelona, Spain
Wu Chang Yang, MD, Taiwan, China
2004
Peter G. Blake, MB, FRCP, Toronto, Canada
Kai-Uwe Eckardt, MD, Berlin, Germany
S. Adibul Hasan Rizvi, MBBS, FRCS, FRCSE, FCPS, FRCP, Karachi, Pakistan
Bernardo Rodriguez-Iturbe, MD, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Claudio Ronco, MD, Vicenza, Italy
2003
Georgi Abraham, MD, Chennai, India
Shanyan Lin, MD, Shanghai, China
Nester Schor, MD, PhD, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Carmine Zoccali, MD, Reggio, Italy
2002
Gavin Becker, MD, Victoria, Australia
Francesco Locatelli, MD, Lecco, Italy
Sergio Mezzano, MD, Valdivia, Chile
Giuseppe Piccoli, MD, Torino, Italy
Wladyslaw Sulowica, MD, PhD, Kracow, Poland
2001
Elvira Emilia Arrizurieta, MD, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hans-Henrick Parving, MD, DMSC, Copenhagen, Denmark
Yahya Sagliker, MD, Adana, Turkey
Fernando Valderrababo, MD, PhD, Madrid, Spain
2000
Vittorio Andreucci, MD, PhD, Naples, Italy
Norbert Lameire, MD, PhD, Gent, Belgium
Florian Lang, MD, PhD, Tubingen, Germany
1999
Jonas Bergstrom, MD, PhD, Huddinge, Sweden
Walter H. Hörl, MD, PhD, Vienna, Austria
Vincenzo Savica, MD, Messina, Italy
Gianfranco Guarnieri, MD, Trieste, Italy
1998
Professor Rosario Maiorca, Brescia, Italy
John Walls, MD, Leicester, England
Shaul M. Shasha, MD, Nahariya, Israel
Professor Jean-Pierre Grunfeld, Paris, France
1997
Professor Guido Bellinghieri, Sicily, Italy
Professor Hirotoshi Morii, Osaka, Japan
Professor Momir H. Polenakovic, Skopje, Macedonia
Professor Boleslaw Rutkowski, Gdansk, Poland
1996
Professor Judit Nagy, Pecs, Hungry
Professor Karel Opatrny, Pizen, Czech Republic
Miguel C. Riella, MD, Curitba, Brazil
1995
Maurice Slapak, MD, Hampshire, England
Guy Laurent, MD, Tassin, France
David N. Kerr, MD, London, England
Alexander P. Disney, MD, Adelaide, South Australia
Andrzej Ksiazek, MD, Lublin, Poland
1994
Stefan Angielsi, MD, Gdansk, Poland
Natale G. De Santo, MD, Naples, Italy
Professor Miroslaw Mydilk, Kosice, Slovac Republic
1993
Jamie Herrera-Acosta, MD, Mexico City, Mexico
Jose L. Rodicio, MD, Madrid, Spain
Professor Sandor, Sonkodi, Hungary
Visith Sitprija, MD, Bangkok, Thailand
1992
Professor Albert Valek, Czechoslovakia
Professor Mary G. McGeown, Ireland
Professor Ori Better, Haifa, Israel
Professor Rashad Bersoum, Egypt
Professor Karl M. Koch, Hannover, Germany
M. Derome Tremblay, France
1991
Professor Nobuhiro Sugino, Tokyo, Japan
Professor K.S. Chugh, Mumbai, India
Professor Renee Habib, Paris, France
Professor Franciszek Kokot, Poland
Professor Sevrin Ringoir, Ghent, Belgium
1990
Professor Kazimierz Baczyk, Poznan, Poland
Professor Vittorio Bonomini, Bologna, Italy
Professor J. Stewart Cameron, London, England
T.T. Durai, MD, Singapore
Professor Henri Jahn, Strasbourgh-Cedex, France
Professor Eberhard Ritz, Heidelberg, Germany