Javier deArteaga is currently Assistant Profesor and coordinator of the Postgraduate Nephrology course of the Catholic University from Cordoba, Argentina.
Also he is a staff member, of the Nephrology service and the Kidney and Kidney and Pancreas transplant program at Hospital Privado, centro medico de Cordoba, Argentina.
He is chief of the peritoneal dialysis section at the same hospital. Dr de Arteaga, received his MD degree at the National University from Cordoba. First he finished an internal medicine residency at the Hospital Privado, and then completed a Nephrology training at Lyon, France . As of 1986 he is the chief from dialysis, nephrology service at the Hospital Privado. He received an ISPD scholarship to spend a 2 months period in Lund, Sweden, under the supervision of Dr. Bengt Rippe.
He has collaborated, in the peritoneal dialysis field , more specifically, in the physiological aspects of the three pore model theory, with 3 papers in the PDI.
Also has been involved as a principal investigator in a multicentric cardiovascular study from Argentina and Uruguay, the Rio de la Plata study, results have been recently published at Kidney International.
Dr de Arteaga will be the next president of the 2nd LAC chapter from ISPD which will take place in Foz de Iguazu, Brazil on 2009
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