World Urology Congress
Ex-Director, renal unit at Ospedale Maggiore
Italy
Claudio Ponticelli earned his medical degree at the
University of Milan, Milan, Italy, in 1961. After completing his residency at
the University of Milan in 1964, Doctor Ponticelli worked in the Division of
Nephrology of Ospedale Maggiore Milan until his retirement in October 2003. He
also earned specialist’s degrees in endocrinology (University of Turin, Turin,
Italy, 1963), urology (University of Milan, 1970), and nephrology (University
of Turin, 1972). From 1983 to 2003, he was Professor of Nephrology at the
University of Milan, and from 2006 on, he has been Visiting Professor of
Nephrology at the University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy. Dr Claudio Ponticelli
was a consultant for Novartis Italy and since October 2004, for the Istituto
Scientifico Auxologico in Milan.
Doctor Ponticelli’s research interests have mainly
concerned transplantation, the development of immunosuppressives in kidney
transplantation patients, the treatment of membranous glomerulonephritis with
immunosuppressives, urinary sedimentation, the treatment of primary and
secondary glomerulitis, and dialysis.
In addition to more than 640 publications in journals
such as the New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of
Transplantation, Kidney International, Transplantation, and the Journal of the
American Society of Nephrology, Doctor Ponticelli has written many book
chapters and edited or coedited numerous books, his H-Index is 69. He has
served or is still serving as a member of the editorial board of Clinical
Nephrology, Nephron, American Journal of Transplantation, Nephrology Dialysis
Transplantation, and the Journal of American Society of Nephrology to name a
few, and is an honorary member of a number of nephrological societies,
including the Romanian Society of Nephrology, the Société de Néphrologie, and
the Italian Society of Nephrology (SIN).
During his career, Professor Claudio Ponticelli has
been a member of the Council of the Italian Society of Nephrology, the
Italian–American Society of Nephrology, and the International Society of
Nephrology, and of the Nomination Committee of the International Society of
Nephrology. He also served as President of the Italian Society of Nephrology in
1998–2000. Doctor Ponticelli has received the Harris Prize, and Gold Medals
from the cities of Milan and Terni (Italy) and from the Catalan Society of
Transplantation. Professor Ponticelli is also an honorary FRCP (Edinburgh) and
an honorary speaker at the University of Toronto, Canada.
He was awarded an Eurolupus Meritorius Award in Athens
(2015), ERA/EDTA Award for outstanding scientific achievements in London
(2016), Luigi Migone Award by the Italian Society of Nephrology in Rimin
(2017).