Claudio Ronco

Claudio Ronco (born July 12, 1951, Vicenza, Italy]) is an Italian nephrologist. He currently works as Director of the International Renal Research Institute of Vicenza IRRIV and is a pioneer in the field of dialysis and in the pediatric intensive care. Claudio Ronco is in the list of the Top Italian Scientists with an h-index of 133.

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Claudio Ronco

Born	July 12th, 1951 Vicenza, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Education	University of Padua
Fields	Nephrology
Institutions	Director of the International Renal Research Institute of Vicenza IRRIV
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Top Italian Scientist in Clinical Sciences

Education and career

Education and training

• 1970 - High School Diploma, Liceo Classico "Antonio Pigafetta", Vicenza (Italy)

• 1976 - MD, University of Padova, Padova (Italy)

• 1979 - Specialization in Nephrology, University of Padova, Padova (Italy)

• 1987 - National License for becoming Department Director, Ministero della Sanità (Italy)

• 1989 - Specialization in Pediatric Nephrology, University of Napoli, Naples (Italy)

Work experience

• 1977–1983 - Assistant of Clinical Nephrology, Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza (Italy)

• 1983–1999 - Associate of Clinical Nephrology, Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza (Italy)

• 1999–2000 - Director of Renal Research Institute of New York, Renal Research Institute of New York, New York (United States)

• 1999–2000 - Dialysis Director, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York (United States)

• 1999–2000 - Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York (United States)

• 2001–2002 - Associate of the Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza (Italy)

• 2002–2021 - Director of the Unit of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza (Italy)

• 2018–2021 - Full Professor of Nephrology, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova (Italy)

• 2021-Present - Director of the International Renal Research Institute of Vicenza IRRIV, International Renal Research Institute of Vicenza IRRIV, Vicenza (Italy)

Research

Claudio Ronco has developed the first miniaturised filters for hemofiltration performing the first treatment in the world with continuous arterio-venous hemofiltration in neonates and small infants. Subsequently he developed a miniaturised machine for the dialysis of neonates called CARPEDIEM (Cardio Renal Pediatric Dialysis Emergency Machine). For this reason he is considered a pioneer in the field of dialysis and in the pediatric intensive care.

He has defined the modern classification of cardio-renal syndromes. He has been the first in the world to find a link between cardiologists and nephrologists for a common classification.

Claudio Ronco has been the first nephrologist in the world to create a link between nephrology and intensive care giving birth to a new discipline called critical care nephrology.

He has promoted the nomenclature standardization in the extracorporeal therapies and the study of the bioengineering applied to the extracorporeal therapies of vital support.

Honours and awards

• 1983 Schwartz Award, for the best paper of the year, Italy.
• 1984 G.F. Volpato Grant for the best research project on acute renal failure in Italy.
• 1989 Best paper Prize at the Italian Society of nephrology meeting.
• 1991 ESAO RESEARCH AWARD for the best paper presented at the European Society for Artificial Organs.
• 1996 Arturo Borsatti Award of Padova University as a best nephrologist of the year.
• 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award for Hemodialysis, San Antonio Texas, USA.
• 2004 International medal of Excellence from National Kidney Foundation, USA.
• 2004 Carrier Award Onorary membership "Socio de honor" of the Spanish Society of Nephrology.
• 2005 Nominee for the medal of excellence of the American Association of Kidney Patients.
• 2009 International Society of Nephrology "Bywaters Award" 2009 Honorary member of SEDYT.
• 2010 Belding Scribner Award of the International Society of Hemodialysis.
• 2012 Lifetime achievement Award for Peritoneal Dialysis.
• 2013 Dimitri Oreopoulos memorial Award.
• 2014 MJ Lazarus Award from National Kidney Foundation USA.
• 2015 Shanghai AKI Forum Award from Fudan University

He received the “Laurea Honoris Causa “ from the University of Patras in Greece.

He is Grand Cross ("Cavaliere di Gran Croce al merito") of the Republic of Italy

Books and publications

Notable publications

• Claudio Ronco, Alessandra Brendolan, Luisa Bragantini, Stefano Chiaramonte, Mariano Feriani, Aldo Fabris, Roberto Dell'Aquila, Giuseppe La Greca, Treatment of acute renal failure in newborns by continuousarterio—venous hemofiltration, Kidney International, April 1986

• Claudio Ronco, Francesco Garzotto, Alessandra Brendolan, Monica Zanella, Massimo Bellettato, Stefania Vedovato, Fabio Chiarenza, Zaccaria Ricci, Stuart L Goldstein, Continuous renal replacement therapy in neonates and small infants: development and first-in-human use of a miniaturised machine (CARPEDIEM), THE LANCET, May 2014

• Anna Lorenzin, Francesco Garzotto, Alberta Alghisi, Mauro Neri, Dario Galeano, Stefania Aresu, Antonello Pani, Enrico Vidal, Zaccaroa Ricci, Luisa Murer, Stuart L. Goldstein, Claudio Ronco, [url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00467-016-3397-2 CVVHD treatment with CARPEDIEM: small solute clearance at different blood and dialysate flows with three different surface area filter configurations], Pediatric Nephrology, 30 April 2016

• Claudio Ronco, Zaccaria Ricci, Stuart L. Goldstein, (R)evolution in the Management of Acute Kidney Injury in Newborns, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 7 May 2015

• Claudio Ronco, Zaccaria Ricci, Pediatric continuous renal replacement: 20 years later, Intensive Care Medicine, 15 April 2017

• Claudio Ronco, Francesco Garzotto, Zaccaria Ricci, CA.R.PE.DI.E.M. (Cardio–Renal Pediatric Dialysis Emergency Machine): evolution of continuous renal replacement therapies in infants. A personal journey, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 26 May 2012

• Zaccaria Ricci, Francesco Guzzi, Germana Tuccinardi, Luca Di Chiara, William Clark, Stuart L. Goldstein, Claudio Ronco, Dose Prescription and Delivery in Neonates With Congenital Heart Diseases Treated With Continuous Veno-Venous Hemofiltration, Pediatric Nephrology, July 2017

• Claudio Ronco, Mikko Haapio, Andrew A House, Nagesh Anavekar, Rinaldo Bellomo, Cardiorenal Syndrome, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 4 November 2008

• Claudio Ronco, Peter McCullough, Stefan D. Anker, Inder Anand, Nadia Aspromonte, Sean M. Bagshaw, Rinaldo Bellomo, Tomas Berl, Ilona Bobek, Dinna N. Cruz, Luciano Daliento, Cardio-renal syndromes: report from the consensus conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative, European Heart Journal, March 2010

• Claudio Ronco, Mariantonietta Cicoira, Peter A. McCullough, Cardiorenal Syndrome Type 1: Pathophysiological Crosstalk Leading to Combined Heart and Kidney Dysfunction in the Setting of Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 18 September 2012

• C. Ronco, R. Bellomo, Critical care nephrology: the time has come, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 1 February 1998

• Claudio Ronco, Rinaldo Bellomo, John A Kellum, Acute kidney injury, THE LANCET, 23 November 2019

• Gianluca Villa, Mauro Neri, Rinaldo Bellomo, Jorge Cerda, A Raffaele De Gaudio, Silvia De Rosa, Francesco Garzotto, Patrick M. Honore, John Kellum, Anna Lorenzin, Didier Payen, Zaccaria Ricci, Sara Samoni, Jean-Louis Vincent, Julia Wendon, Marta Zaccaria, Claudio Ronco, Nomenclature for renal replacement therapy and blood purification techniques in critically ill patients: practical applications, Critical Care, 10 October 2016

• Mario Neri, Gianluca Villa, Francesco Garzotto, Sean Bagshaw, Rinaldo Bellomo, Jorge Cerda, Fiorenza Ferrari, Silvia Guggia, Michael Joannidis, John Kellum, Jeong Chul Kim, Ravindra L. Mehta, Zaccaria Ricci, Alberto Trevisani, Silvio Marafon, William R. Clark, Jean-Louis Vincent, Claudio Ronco, Nomenclature for renal replacement therapy in acute kidney injury: basic principles, Critical Care, 10 October 2016

• Claudio Ronco, Evolution of Technology for Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: Forty Years of Improvements, Contrib Nephrol, December 2016

Scientific publications

In 2015 and 2016 the John Hopkins University nominated him Top wordlwide researcher in the field of kidney diseases. He delivered more than 1000 lectures and presentations at congresses and universities. He has published 1429 publications (1125 are listed on Pub Med) on nephrology, dialysis and transplantation. He published 84 volumes on nephrology, dialysis and intensive care (among them Critical Care Nephrology). Since 1977 he has conducted clinical activity by treating patients with kidney disease. Since 1979 he has conducted research and educational activities in the field of replacement therapies, applied technologies, applied bioengineering and biophysics, acute kidney injury and peritoneal dialysis. His researches are well known in the field of critical care medicine for the introduction of a new multidisciplinary approach to the critically ill patient. This approach is known worldwide as "Vicenza Model". The "Critical Care Nephrology" was born from his will to unify different disciplines. Other important researches are in the field of artificial organs (liver and kidney above all), of bioengineering, physics and nanotechnologies applied to medicine. His recent studies on the wearable artificial kidney and on the cardiorenal syndrome. He created the first miniaturized artificial kidney for the treatment of infants with cardiorenal disfunctions. He is member of the editorial board of 12 scientific journals. He is editor in chief of Contributions to Nephrology. He is editor in chief of Blood Purification. He is editor emeritus of The International Journal of Artificial Organs. He is associate editor of Critical Care. He was part of the board of directors of 5 scientific societies. He was President of the International Society of Hemodialysis. He has organized a significant number of courses. Among them: - International Vicenza Courses - Meeting RRI in New York - CRRTeams in New York and Pittsburgh - Peritoneal Dialysis and CRRT masters in Vicenza - CRRT seminars in South Africa - Cardiorenal Syndrome Course at the New York Academy of Medicine - Annual Course on CRRT for nurses in Vicenza He founded the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) consensus group with the Univeristy of California and the University of Pittsburgh in order to prepare the guidelines on Acute Kidney Injury.