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Dr. Zoccali is a clinical Investigator and Research Unit head of the Clinical Epidemiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension Unit of the National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR) - IFC at Riuniti Hospital, Reggio Calabria.
Dr. Zoccali’s research interests cover hypertension, cardiovascular complications in chronic renal failure, renal disease progression and the epidemiology of chronic renal failure. He has contributed over 600 PudMed indexed publications in peer reviewed journals and has an Hirsh Index (Google Scholar) of 80. Dr Zoccali is Chief Editor of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation and editorial board member of JASN, cJASN, Hypertension, European J Clin Investigation, Clinical Nephrology and several other internal medicine and nephrology journals.
Dr. Zoccali is the President Elect of the European Renal Association – European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) for the 2017-2020 triennium. He chaired the Registry of Dialysis and Transplantation of the same association from 2003 until May 2009. A member to 10 national and international societies of Nephrology and Hypertension, he received international awards by the Am Kidney Foundation and the Borelli Foundation. Dr. Zoccali is Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (FASN) and of the ERA-EDTA (FERA) and of the American Kidney Foundation (FNKF) and honorary Member of the Spanish Society of Nephrology and the Polish Society of Nephrology.
