Prof. Dr. med. Kai-Uwe Eckardt
Director of the Medical Department, Division of Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine
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- 1978 – 2004 Degree in medicine in Münster and Cardiff, UK
- 2005 PhD at the Institute of Human Genetics in Münster
- Clinical training at the German Army Hospital Osnabrück, the Pathological Institut in Münster, Hannover Medical School and the Charité in Berlin
- Six years work in basic research in Zurich, Oxford and Regensburg
- 2004 – 2017 Director of the Department of Nephrology and Hypertensiology at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and Klinikum Nürnberg and head of the Erlangen-Nürnberg Transplant Centre
- Since 2017 Director of the Medical Department, Division of Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine at the Charité
Focus
| Diagnosis and treatment of kidney diseases (e.g. chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, glomerular nephritis, polycystic kidney diseases, vasculitis, tubulopathies, kidney stone diseases, rare kidney diseases) | Kidney transplants (preparation and after-care, live kidney donation, including in cases of non-compatible blood groups, kidney transplants in combination with other organs) |
| All forms of renal replacement therapy, including haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis | Intensive care medicine (treatment of all forms of organ failure, sepsis, multiple organ failure, mechanical organ replacement, ECMO) |
| Hypertensiology (diagnosis and treatment of all types of high blood pressure) | |
Spectrum
Languages: German, English
