Prof Alberto Ortiz is Head of Nephrology and Hypertension at the Fundacion Jimenez Diaz Health Research Institute and University Hospital (IIS-FJD-UAM), Madrid, Spain and Professor of Medicine at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM).
He is European Renal Association (ERA) Chair of the Registry, as well as Clinical Science Chair-elect, coordinator of the Spanish Kidney Research Network (REDINREN, RICORS2040) and of SPACKDc (ISCIII Precision Medicine initiative), distinguished Fellow of the ERA (FERA), Board member of SOMANE. He received the 2020 ERA-EDTA Award for Research Excellence and in December 2023 co-chaired the KDIGO Controversies Conference on Maintaining Kidney Health and Preventing CKD.
He trained as a nephrologist and completed his PhD at IIS-FJD-UAM and was a Molecular Nephrology Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He was Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Kidney Journal (2014-2022). Research interests include the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the pathogenesis and treatment of acute kidney injury and CKD.
