Andrea Viecelli SwitzerlandUniversity Hospital of Zurich

A/Prof Andrea Viecelli is an academic nephrologist based in Zurich, Switzerland and holds an honorary Associate Professorship at the University of Queensland. She was awarded her PhD on strategies to improve vascular access outcomes in patients on haemodialysis in 2019 through the University of Queensland. As a clinical trialist of the Australasian Kidney Trials Network (AKTN) she plays a key role in designing and conducting international clinical trials in people undergoing haemodialysis. As a Coordinating Committee member and Haemodialysis Vascular Access Project Coordinator of the global Standardised Outcomes in Nephrology (SONG) initiative, she is conducting clinical and qualitative research to establish standardised core outcome measures based on the shared priorities of >10,000 patients, clinicians, researchers and policy makers from >70 countries to improve the relevance and reliability of kidney research to inform patient-centred care. As the recipient of a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Emerging Leadership Investigator Grant and a Queensland Advancing Clinical Research Fellowship she pursues a program of clinical and qualitative research to improve patient-important outcomes in haemodialysis. She has 13 national and international research awards including the prestigious Society for Clinical Trials (SCT) Sylvan Green Award in 2018 and 2022.