PaulaCoccia ArgentinaHospital Italianod de Buenos Aires

Paula Alejandra Coccia is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Instituto Universitario del Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. She serves as the Head of the Pediatric Nephrology Service and the Pediatric Renal Transplant Team at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. She received her clinical training in pediatric nephrology at the Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutiérrez in the city of Buenos Aires. Currently, she oversees the Pediatric Nephrology Residency Program and holds the position of Deputy Director of the Pediatric Nephrology Program at the University of Buenos Aires, based at the Hospital Italiano. She has been actively involved in leading and participating in several collaborative research studies through the Pediatric Nephrology Committee of the Argentine Society of Pediatrics, focusing particularly on STEC-HUS (Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli hemolytic-uremic syndrome).