Dr. Karolis Azukaitis is a pediatric nephrologist and a PhD fellow at the Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Clinics. Dr. Azukaitis had done clinical exchange fellowships in Gaslini Institute (Genova, Italy) and largest pediatric nephrology centers in Sao Paulo (Brasil).

He is actively involved in international research and is an active member of the ESCAPE Research Consortium for pediatric kidney diseases established in Heidelberg (Germany).

Karolis's clinical and research interests encompass cardiovascular morbidity of children with CKD, pediatric hypertension with particular focus on central hemodynamics and hemolytic uremic syndrome.