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).