Date Published: 15/08/2007

ITO Editorial Board

ITO is pleased to present the following members of the ITO Editorial Panel :

Iain C. Macdougall	Iain C. Macdougall, BSc, MD, FRCP Consultant Nephrologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, King's College Hospital London, UK Iain C. Macdougall is Consultant Nephrologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at King's College Hospital in London, United Kingdom. He has published extensively on the topic of renal anaemia and iron management, and he is frequently invited to lecture in the UK and internationally. He was chairman of the Satellite Symposium on "Future Challenges of Epoetin Therapy" at the International Congress of Nephrology in Sydney (May 1997) and Co-chairman of the 2nd European Epoetin Symposium in Crete (April 1998). Dr Macdougall is a member of both the British and Global Advisory Boards for Anaemia Management, and he is currently a Principal Investigator in several key anaemia trials. He is currently involved in the Working Party responsible for revising the European Best Practice guidelines for the management of renal anaemia.
Roland M. Schaefer	Roland M. Schaefer, MD Professor Department of Medicine University of Münster Germany Roland M. Schaefer has been a full Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Muenster in Germany since 1994. He received the Nils-Alwall-Price, bestowed by the German Society of Nephrology in 1989. He is also a member of the following learned societies: German Society of Nephrology German Society of Internal Medicine American Society of Nephrology Polish Society of Nephrology European Dialysis and Transplant Association International Society of Nephrology
Donald S. Silverberg	Donald S. Silverberg, MSc, MD FRCP (C ) Senior Physician Department of Nephrology Tel Aviv Medical Center Tel Aviv, Israel Donald Silverberg has been a Senior Nephrologist at Tel Aviv Medical Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel since 1992. He is also on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nephrology and has published over 135 articles in peer-reviewed journals worldwide. His recent interests include: IV iron sucrose and Erythropoietin in the anemia of hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, chronic renal failure and congestive heart failure Sleep apnea and hypertension The effect of position on respiratory function during sleep He has been an invited lecturer on the subjects of Anemia, Congestive Heart Failure and Chronic Kidney Disease-The Cardio Renal Anemia Syndrome at the meetings of the US National Kidney Foundation, American Society of Nephrology, US Renal Research Institute, American Nephrology Nurses Association, European Dialysis and Transplantation Association, Swedish Cardiology Association, German Nephrology and Cardiology Associations, Dutch and Belgium Nephrology Associations, Renal Masterclass lectures in Paris and Geneva and others .
Nancy C. Andrews	Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD Leland Fikes Professor of Pediatrics and Dean for Basic Sciences and Graduate Studies Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA Nancy C. Andrews is the Leland Fikes Professor of Pediatrics and Dean for Basic Sciences and Graduate Studies at Harvard Medical School. She is a Senior Associate in Medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Andrews' research interests focus on molecular hematology, mammalian iron homeostasis and mouse models of human diseases. Her laboratory has identified several novel proteins involved in iron metabolism through positional cloning of spontaneous mouse and rat mutations that result in iron deficiency anemia. They have also used gene targeting to disrupt iron-related genes in mice, to make mouse models of iron overload disorders and to study iron balance. Recently, they described a role for a new iron-regulating hormone in the pathogenesis of the anemia of inflammation in human patients. Dr. Andrews has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and approximately 20 book chapters. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Hematology, and a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Pediatric Society and the Association of American Physicians. Among other awards, she has received the 1998 Samuel Rosenthal Prize for Excellence in Academic Pediatrics, the 2000 Outstanding Investigator Award in Basic Science from the American Federation for Medical Research and the 2002 E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research.
Christian Breymann	Christian Breymann, MD Assistant Professor and Head of Research Fetal-Maternal Hematology Unit University of Zurich, Switzerland Christian Breymann is Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich. He specializes in obstetrics and gynecology. He also specializes in fetal-maternal medicine and high risk pregnancy and is Head of the research group in fetal-maternal hematology at the University of Zurich. His main fields of research are: physiology and pathophysiology of hematology in pregnancy and postpartum, anemia diagnosis and treatment, iron metabolism and iron therapy, use of recombinant erytrhopoietin in obstetrics, alternatives to blood transfusion in obstetrics. Prof. Breymann has written numerous articles in his field and is co-author of the book "Anaemia in Pregnancy and Postpartum" which was released in 2005. In addition Prof. Breymann is co-Chair with Christoph Gasche, of the intravenous iron section of NATA online, swiss diplomat for NESA (New European Surgical Academy) in OB/GYN, board member of the ICBS (International Cord Blood Society) and member of the SAFMM (Swiss Academy of Feto Maternal Medicine).
Christoph Gasche	Christoph Gasche, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology University of Vienna, Austria Christoph Gasche is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Vienna, Austria. He has three main fields of research: • Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) : immunology, clinical assessment, diagnosis, and therapy. • Interleukin-10 pathway : cSNPs, functional analysis, and pharmacogenetic implications. • Genetic pathways of IBD-related colorectal cancer : microsatellite instability and chemoprevention. He has written numerous articles in his field and is currently on the editorial board of Genes and Immunity, and is a member of the International Organization of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IOIBD). Christoph Gasche is also co-Chair with Christian Breymann of intravenous iron section of NATA online.