Research Interests: Education:

Christian Combe, MD, PhD, FERA (Professor Medical School) Service de Néphrologie Transplantation Dialyse, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux & Unité INSERM 1026, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Research Interests: Christian Combe is Professor of Nephrology at the Université de Bordeaux, and Chief of the Pôle des Spécialités Médicales at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, France. His main clinical scientific interests are chronic kidney diseases and their nutritional and metabolic consequences, haemodialysis, epidemiology, and rare renal diseases including thrombotic microangiopathies. He has been Country Investigator for France in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study since 1998, and is one of the founding investigators of the French CKD-­‐REIN cohort of patients with chronic kidney disease and of the Chronic Kidney Disease Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study -­‐ CKDopps. He is Theme Editor at Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. He is President of the Société Francophone de Néphrologie Transplantation Dialyse. Education: Professor of Nephrology since September 1995. 1st class 2005. Exceptional class 2012. Docteur de l'Université Bordeaux II (PhD Thesis). 1995. Chef de Clinique des Universités de Bordeaux (University Assistant). 1990. Certificat d'Etudes Spéciales de Néphrologie (Qualification in Nephrology). Université Bordeaux II. 1990. Diplôme d'Etat de Docteur en Médecine (Medicine Thesis and Qualification). Université Bordeaux II. 1990. Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies de Physiologie et Physiopathologie Rénales (MSc in Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology). Université Paris VII. 1989. Certificat d'Etudes Statistiques Appliquées à la Médecine (CESAM), option Application à la Recherche Clinique (STARC) (Certificate in Statistics Applied to Medicine, Option Clinical Research). Université Paris VI. 1987. Medical Studies Faculté Necker Enfants-­‐Malades, Paris 1977-­‐1984. Hospital Positions: Head of the Pôle des Spécialités Médicales, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Hôpital Pellegrin, Bordeaux, since January 2105. Head of the Department of Nephrology and Haemodialysis, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Hôpital Saint-­‐André, Bordeaux, 1995-­‐2000. Praticien Hospitalier (Consultant) 1994 Assistant of Bordeaux Hospitals. 1990. Interne des Hôpitaux de Bordeaux 1984. Scientific Journals: Theme Editor of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation since September 2011. Member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Nephrology, The Open Urology & Nephrology Journal and of the Turkish Journal of Nephrology. Editor-­‐in-­‐Chief of "Néphrologie & Thérapeutique", the journal of the Société de Néphrologie, the Société Francophone de Dialyse, and the Société de Néphrologie Pédiatrique from January 2002 to December 2006. Reviewer for Kidney International, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Journal of Nephrology, Journal of Renal Nutrition, BioMedCentral Nephrology, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.for the Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique. Administrative responsabilities: President of the Société Francophone de Néphrologie Transplantation Dialyse since 01/2016. President-­‐Elect of the Société de Néphrologie from 10/2013 to 10/2015. President of the Consultative Medical Commission of the Hôpital Pellegrin from May 2007 to 2015. Member of the EDTA ERA Registry Scientific Committee from 2006 to 2012. President of the Association pour l'Utilisation du Rein Artificiel en Aquitaine (association for home and satellite dialysis) since 1999. Miscellaneous: Post-­‐doc research job from 1/11/93 to 31/10/94 in the Department of Nephrology, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, UK, Director Prof John Walls. Laboratory Work for the Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies de Physiologie et Physiopathologie Rénales done in the Unité INSERM 64, Hôpital Tenon, Paris, Director Pr Ardaillou. 1/11/88-­‐
31/10/89. Publications: More than 200 publications indexed in Medline. H-­‐index 40 by Scopus, 49 by Google Scholar