Federica Zotta

Dr. Zotta received her medical degree from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Sapienza where she specialized in Nephrology. She subsequently completed her training in paediatric nephrology at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome. 

Since February 2020, she has been regularly engaged in the management of a wide spectrum of patients with rare kidney diseases in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Her expertise lies in steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome, congenital nephrotic syndrome, steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome, complement-mediated renal diseases and glomerular diseases. In recent years she has been mainly involved in the management of patients with renovascular hypertension secondary to renal artery stenosis, and/or middle aortic syndrome. 

She has initiated in numerous clinical studies on the pathogenesis and clinical features of nephrotic syndrome and immune-mediated renal disease. She has reviewed numerous scientific publications of paediatric nephrology. 

Dr. Zotta is a member of the Italian Society of Paediatric Nephrology (SINePe), the Italian Society of Nephrology (SIN), the European Society of Paediatric Nephrology (ESPN) and the International Paediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA).