Hideki Kawanishi, MD, PhD

Dr. Hideki Kawanishi is the vice president and the director of artificial organs & surgery of Tsuchiya General Hospital, Hiroshima JAPAN. He has been an active clinical surgeon for past 40 years and nephrologist for 30 years. He is managing over 1,300 chronic dialysis patients include 200 peritoneal dialysis patients in addition to maintaining acute kidney failure program. His research for HD has focus on the super high flux dialysis include online HDF modality, and for PD on the pathophysiology and treatment for encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS), with over 250 successful surgical cases, and clinical usefulness for complementary dialysis (combined PD and HD) to maintain log-term PD. He has published over 100 international articles in the field of HD, PD and artificial organs. He was a past council member of Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT), also is organized JSPD, JSDA, JSBPCC, president of JSHDF, ISBP (vice president, congress president 2016) and associate editor of Blood Purification, editorial board of Peritoneal Dialysis International, Nephron Clinical Practice & Journal of Vascular Access. Moreover, he is a position of steering committee for PDOPPS international.