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Institution

Stockholm, Karolinska University Hospital

Center

Department of Renal Medicine

Description

The Department of Renal Medicine at Karolinska University Hospital carries out a wide and qualified renal medical specialist care at county and national level. The clinic is responsible for approximately 400 hemodialysis patients, 100 peritoneal dialysis patients, 650 renal transplant patients and the catchment is about 65 % (1.4 million people) of the region. The number of visits to our three outpatient clinics are 20,000/ year, to the four dialysis units 70,000/year and we have more than 1,000 hospitalisations per year. Rare renal diseases constitute a significant proportion (approximately 12 %) of our patients.

Team

Senior clinician experts
	Peter Barany (HCP Lead) [e-mail]
no image	Maria Evans [e-mail]
no image	Peter Hemmingsson
no image	Charikleia Chrysostomou [e-mail]
no image	Sara Lind af Hageby [e-mail]
Junior clinician experts
no image	Warda Ali [e-mail]
no image	Katarina RobertssonGrossmann [e-mail]
no image	Julia Wijkström [e-mail]
Clinicians in training
no image	Riyadh Bagadoodh [e-mail]
no image	Marie Hilderman [e-mail]
no image	Amel Ibrahim [e-mail]
no image	Stefania Kapetanaki [e-mail]
Nephropathologists
no image	Xiang Hua [e-mail]
no image	Annika Östman Wernerson [e-mail]
no image	Hovakhshatare Shamsborhan [e-mail]