Biography
John Mellas, MD has been practicing nephrology for thirty years in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr Mellas is the senior partner in the largest nephrology practice in St. Louis. He is also chairman of the Nephrology Division at St. Mary’s Health Center where he is actively involved in teaching internal medicine trainees. Dr Mellas has developed a method to measure creatinine clearance in acute kidney injury and has been using it in his practice for the last several years. With this method he is able to detect the onset of renal injury early in its course and with significant accuracy. This method allows one to forecast the course of renal injury prospectively; something that is not possible with the present metrics of renal injury.
Research Interest
Nephrology and Hypertension
Biography
Dmitry Zorov has completed his PhD in 1974 from Lomonosov Moscow State University and his Doctor of Science in 1988 from Moscow University. He is the chief of the Department of Functional Biochemistry of Biopolymers and the chief of the Laboratory of Mitochondrial Structure and Functions in A.N.Belozersky Institute at Moscow State University. He has published more than 150 papers in high rank journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Heart, Lung and Cirulation. He is a member of European Academy (Academia Europea).
Research Interest
Polymers, Nephrology
Biography
Dr. Roger De Filippo completed his MD at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, in 1993. He completed a pediatric urology fellowship in 2003 at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and did two years of tissue engineering research during his fellowship training. He is Chief of Pediatric Urology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Co-Director of the GOFARR Laboratory for Organ Regenerative Research and Cell Therapeutics. He has published closed to 50 manuscripts in reputed journals and presently serves on the editorial board of the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine.
Research Interest
Translational Medicine, Nephrology