Biography

Prof. Vladimir Tesar, MD, PhD, MBA, FERA, FASN, born May 5, 1957,
Head, Department of Nephrology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University,
U nemocnice 2, 128 08 Prague 2, 128 08, CZ, tel./phone 00420224962696,
e-mail: vladimir.tesar@vfn.cz

2008 – 2014 - member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ERA-EDTA
2011 – 2014 - member of the Council of ERA-EDTA
2015 – chair, Immunonephrology Working Group, ERA-EDTA
2014 - president, International Society of Blood Purification
since 2021 - member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Nephrology

Substantial part of the publications deals with diagnosis and treatment of glomerulonephritides, mainly ANCA-positive vasculitis and lupus nephritis, renal and renovascular hypertension, and autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (and other genetic diseases of the kidney) and cardiovascular complications of renal failure.

Publications- author or co-author of more than 450 publications according to Pubmed, including New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Journal of the American Medical Association, Annals of Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Kidney International, Rheumatology, Blood Purification, Kidney and Blood Pressure Research, Journal of Nephrology, Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, Journal of Hypertension, etc.
Science Citation Index more than 15 000, Hirsch index 52, editorial board: Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, subject editor, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology