User:Petste

Peter Stenvinkel (born 1957) is a Swedish physician educated at Karolinska Institutet and trained at Karolinska Hospital doing research in nephology, nutrition, cardiovascular disease and epidemiology. He has published > 500 scientific manuscript and is widely cited. He did a post-doc at UC Davis, USA 2000-2001. He has published widely on inflammation in chronic kidney disease and was the first to document the strong associations between inflammation, arteriosclerosis and malnutrition in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease. This observation published in Kidney International 1999 in on the list of the worlds 100 most cited nephrology manuscripts. He is on ExpertScapes list as one the world's top specialist in end-stage renal disease and dialysis. Stenvinkel is also interested in biomimetics and have conducted research on the amazing capacity of hibernating bears to protect themselves against muscle wasting and osteoporosis despite months of immobilisation and anuria during their winter sleep. Stenvinkel has served in the council of several learned societies, such as ERA-EDTA and International Society of Nephrology and received multiple international prizes and awards.