VladoPerkovic University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaAustralia

Scientia Professor Vlado Perkovic is the Provost at the University of New South Wales, and previously the Dean of Medicine and Health at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, Professorial Fellow at The George Institute, Australia, and was a Staff Specialist in Nephrology at the Royal North Shore Hospital. His research focus is in clinical trials, epidemiology, in particular preventing the progression of kidney disease and its complications. He leads several international clinical trials is involved in developing Australian and global treatment guidelines. Has played a central role in the development of an affordable dialysis system, which was a Eureka Prize finalist 2017. Vlado is a member of the NHMRC Principal Committee on Research Translation, on the Board of the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance and the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes. Chair of the ISN Advancing Clinical Trials (ISN-ACT) group; a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Circulation, the New England Journal of Medicine.