Venkata DakshinamurtyKaligotla IndiaMahatma Sri Ramchandra Centenary Memorial Hospital, Vijayanagar Colony, Hyderabad, INDIA

Qualified from Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam and Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. Trained as clinical research fellow in Nephrology department in Klinikum, Technical University, Aachen, Germany. Served as professor and head of Nephrology department in Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati and Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India. Published 130 scientific articles in peer reviewed national and internationam journals and 15 chapters in Nephrology books and edited 5 nephrology books. Served as member of the governing body of Indian Society of Nephrology, Chairman of Indian Society of Nephrology- Southern Chapter and President of Peritoneal Dialysis Society of India.