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Dr. Piergiorgio Messa

Nephrology

Italy

49 years of experience

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Area of expertise

Specialty

Nephrology

Diseases

Chronic Kidney Disease, Diabetic Nephropathy, Electrolyte Imbalance, Kidney Stones

Procedures Performed

Dialysis

Kidney Transplantation

Experience

Full Professor of Nephrology, a University of Milan

Milan Italy. From 2016

Director, a Department of Nephrology, Urology and Renal Transplant, IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda General Hospital

Milan, Italy. From 2013

Co-director, a Department of Medicine, IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda General Hospital

Milan, Italy. From 2013

Co-scientific Director, a IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda General Hospital

Milan, Italy. From 2009

Director, a Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant, IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda General Hospital

Milan, Italy. 2004 - 2021

Director, a Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, S. Andrea Hospital

Rome, Italy. 2002 - 2004

Specialist, a Divisions of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, University Hospital of Udine; University Hospital of Genova

Italy. 1978 - 2002

Training in Medicine and Nephrology, a University of Padua

Padua, Italy. 1973 - 1978

Education

MD, University of Padua

1975

Biography

Dr. Piergiorgio Messa completed his medical degree at the University of Padua. He then specialized in Nephrology and General Hematology. Dr. Messa has a long experience in the field of renal transplantation, alterations of mineral and bone metabolism, renal diseases (primary and secondary), and dialysis. He deals with the treatment of all types of nephropathies. Dr. Messa was the Director of the Complex Operating Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis at the IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda General Hospi...tal, where he was also Director of the Nephro-Urological Homogeneous Area and Kidney Transplant. Dr. Messa is a Full Professor at the University of Milan. Dr. Messa had different positions in various scientific associations and congresses, e.g., he was the President of the Italian Society of Nephrology and the President of the European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association Congress in 2023. In regard to research, he published more than 500 papers, 410 of which in indexed journals (e.g., NEJM, Lancet, KI, AJT, CJASN, AJKD, NDT, Bone, Sci Rep, Transplantation, JN, Nephron, Clin Sci, Clinical Nephrol, SMI, etc.). Dr. Messa had talks at more than 500 national and international symposia and a number of lectures in the Postgraduate Courses of Nephrology at the Universities of Medicine in Trieste, Padova, Bologna, Firenze, and Perugia. He participated in more than 60 trials of Phase II or Phase III, or Phase IV.

Affiliations

President, European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association Congress (2023)

President, Italian Society of Nephrology (2020-2022)

Steering Committee Member: Production of Italian Nephrology Guidelines

Former Directory Board Member: Italian Society of Nephrology

Former Directory Board Member: Italian Society of Mineral and Electrolyte Metabolism

Scientific President, National Congress of the Italian Society of Nephrology (2006)

Secretary, World Nephrology Congress (2009)

Awards

“Arturo Borsatti” award

1997

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