Jurgen Floege, MD is head of the Division of Nephrology and Immunology at the University of Aachen, Germany and serves as Vice Dean of the medical school. He is an active member of several nephrology societies, including the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and the International Society of Nephrology (ISN). He has served on the ISN council and headed the core scientific committee for ISN’s World Congress of Nephrology. In addition, Dr. Floege has served as vice president of the German Society of Nephrology and was president of the European Kidney Research Association.

Dr. Floege is co-editor of the health journal Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation and serves on the editorial boards of Kidney International, the Journal of Nephrology, and Clinical Nephrology. He has authored more than 150 original papers, dozens of reviews and editorials, and more than 40 medical book chapters. He is an author of the fourth edition of Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology.

Related Authors: Richard J. Johnson, MD; John Feehally, MA, DM, FRCP