ElenaZakharova Elena Zakharova, Botkin Hospital, Moscow, RussiaRussia

CURRENT POSITIONS: - Head of Department of Nephrology, Senior Researcher, Botkin Hospital, Moscow, Russia - Associate Professor, Department of Nephrology and Hemodialysis, Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education, Moscow, Russia - Associate Professor, Department of Nephrology, Russian University of Medicine, Moscow, Russia EDUCATION: General Medicine - Faculty of General Medicine, Moscow Institute of Medicine and Dentistry n.a. N.A. Semashko, Moscow, 1975-1981; Nephrology Residency – Nephrology Department, Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs, Moscow, 1981- 1983 PhD Thesis, \\\"Prognostic factors of outcome in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Systemic Vasculitis with Kidney Involvement\\\", defended in 2005 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: Russian Dialysis Society (president); Scientific Society of Nephrologists of Russia (council member); ERA-EDTA (member); ISN (Regional Board member), ASN (member) EDITORIAL BOARDS: Russian Journal Nephrology and Dialysis (Deputy Editor); Journal of Onco-nephrology (Associate editor); Kidney and Dialysis (Associate editor); Journal of Nephrology (Editorial board member) FIELDS OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST: immunonephrology, onconephrology, thrombotic microangiopathies, monoclonal gammopathies of renal significance, obstetric nephrology PUBLICATIONS: 225 publications: 220 in Russian and International Journals, and 5 chapters in National Textbooks.