Carmine Zoccali

Carmine Zoccali
BornJan 27th 1947 (1947-01-27) (age 79)
CitizenshipItalian
Alma materUniversity of Rome, University of Pisa
Known forCardiovascular Risk in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), Risk factors for CKD progression, Endothelial dysfunction and hypertension in CKD and in End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD), Epidemiology of kidney diseases
Scientific career
FieldsNephrology, dialysis, epidemiology, hypertension
Workplacespast director CNR (National Research Council of Italy)-Clinical Physiology Institute (Clinical Epidemiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension Unit).

past director Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Division, Garnde Ospedale Metropolitano, Reggio Calabria, Italy Associated Investigator, Institute of Biology and Genetic Medicine (BIOGEM), Ariano Irpino, Italy

President, Associazione Ipertensione, Nefrologia, Trapianto (IPNET), Reggio Calabria, Italy Associated Investigator, Renal Research Institute, New York, USA.

Dr Zoccali is an Italian nephrologist and a clinical investigator. He has contributed to research in several fields, most notably hypertension and cardiovascular complications in chronic kidney disease (CKD), CKD progression and the clinical epidemiology of kidney diseases at large. He is known for his studies on cardiovascular risk in CKD and dialysis patients. He was among the earliest investigators that focused on the relevance of endothelial dysfunction[1] and inflammation[2] for the high risk of cardiovascular disease in these populations. In this research area, he was the first to link endogenous inhibitors of the nitric oxide system with death and cardiovascular disease.[3] and the first to document a relationship between sympathetic over-activity and these outcomes[4] Dr Zoccali is a practicing specialist in Nephrology, with a national qualification for the full professorship in Nephrology. He is also a specialist in hypertension, certified by the European Society of Hypertension (ESH).[5]

Education

He received his education in medicine from the University of Rome where he graduated in 1971. He then specialized in Nephrology at the Pisa University. His nephrology mentor was Professor Quirino Maggiore, the investigator who, in the sixties, proposed a special low-protein diet (the Giovannetti-Maggiore diet) for the control of uremic symptoms and invented cold dialysis in the early eighties. Dr Zoccali was trained in clinical research in hypertension at the Medical Research Council (MRC) BP Unit in Glasgow (1981-1982) and in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Rotterdam University where he attended several Erasmus Summer School courses in 1989–1993.

Career

He was a Clinical Research Fellow at the Glasgow BP Unit (1981-1982) where he worked with Dr Jehoiada Brown, Antony Lever, Jan Robertson, Stephen Ball and Peter Simple on several projects on hypertension. Back in Italy, he worked at the main hospital of Reggio Calabria as vice-director of the Renal Unit. In 1991 he became Director of the Division of Nephrology at Grande Ospedale Metropolitano of Reggio Calabria, which he directed till April 2014 and, from 1994 to 2002, Director of the CNR - Center of Clinical Physiology associated with the same Division. Presently dr. Zoccali is an Associated Investigator, Institute of Biology and Genetic Medicine (BIOGEM), Ariano Irpino, Italy; President, Associazione Ipertensione, Nefrologia, Trapianto (IPNET), Reggio Calabria, Italy; Associated Investigator to the Renal Research Institute (RRI), New York, USA, and has several ongoing international collaborations. Dr Zoccali has authored more than 1000 publications listed in PubMed which have been cited >80,000 times.[6] As of August 24th 2026, his h-index is 144 (86 from 2021) [6] and evolving. On the same date, he is ranked as the top European expert in CKD (the 6th on a world scale)[7] and Chronic Kidney Failure (the 11th on a world scale)[8] by Expertscape, a ranking system of expert physicians. He is above the 97,5th percentile among investigators evaluated by ResearchGate[9] In an analysis by Ioannidis et al. across twenty-seven scientific fields, from physics and astronomy to clinical medicine, between January 1st, 1996 until December 31st, 2017[10] he was among the 4000 most productive scientists during this period. In Italy, he is ranked as the 26th clinical scientist by Via Academy[11] an independent ranking system of academicians in Italy.

Dr Zoccali was chairman of the European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) Registry (2003-2009)[12] and served the same society as president for the triennium 2017-2020[13] He is Editor Emeritus of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation.[14] Past-member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ERA-EDTA and the ERA-EDTA European Best Practice Committee. He was the founding Editor of NDT- Educational, the online educational resource of the same society.[15] He was also President of the Italian Society of Nephrology from 2006 to 2008.[16]

He is presently an active editorial board member of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, (CJASN)[17] Hypertension,[18] Journal of Hypertension,[19] American Journal of Kidney Diseases[20], American Journal of Nephrology (Associated Editor)[21], Clinical Kidney Journal[22], the European Journal of Clinical Investigation (section Editor for Kidney Diseases)[23], Nephron[24], Clinical Nephrology,[25] Turkish Journal of Nephrology[26] and the Portuguese Journal of Nephrology and Hypertension.[27] He served as an editorial board member of other nephrology journals, including the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), Kidney International, Journal of Nephrology (as Deputy Editor).

Awards

Dr Zoccali has received the 2003 National Kidney Foundation International Award, the 2009 International Dorso Award,[28] the 2018 Richard Yu award of the Hong Kong Society of Nephrology[29] and the 2019 Gabriele Monasterio award of the Italian Society of Nephrology. He is a distinguished fellow of ERA-EDTA[30], the American Society of Nephrology[31] and the National Kidney Foundation,[31] and an honorary member of the Spanish[32] and Polish[33] societies of Nephrology. In 2018 he was named Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Oviedo,[34] and in 2019 had the same recognition by the University of Patras (2019).[35]

References

  1. ↑ Perticone, Francesco; Maio, Raffaele; Tripepi, Giovanni; Zoccali, Carmine (17 August 2004). "Endothelial Dysfunction and Mild Renal Insufficiency in Essential Hypertension". Circulation. 110 (7): 821–825. doi:10.1161/01.CIR.0000138745.21879.27. PMID 15289371. S2CID 11987668.
  2. ↑ Zoccali, Carmine; Benedetto, Francesco Antonio; Mallamaci, Francesca; Tripepi, Giovanni; Fermo, Isabella; Focà, Alfredo; Paroni, Rita; Malatino, Lorenzo Salvatore (September 2000). "Inflammation is associated with carotid atherosclerosis in dialysis patients". Journal of Hypertension. 18 (9): 1207–1213. doi:10.1097/00004872-200018090-00006. PMID 10994751. S2CID 30430138.
  3. ↑ Zoccali, Carmine; Bode-Böger, Stefanie M.; Mallamaci, Francesca; Benedetto, Frank Antonio; Tripepi, Giovanni; Malatino, Lorenzo Salvatore; Cataliotti, Alessandro; Bellanuova, Ignazio; Fermo, Isabella; Frölich, Jürgen C.; Böger, Rainer H. (22 December 2001). "Plasma concentration of asymmetrical dimethylarginine and mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease: a prospective study". The Lancet. 358 (9299): 2113–2117. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)07217-8. PMID 11784625. S2CID 41178487.
  4. ↑ Zoccali, Carmine; Mallamaci, Francesca; Parlongo, Saverio; Cutrupi, Sebastiano; Benedetto, Francesco Antonio; Tripepi, Giovanni; Bonanno, Graziella; Rapisarda, Francesco; Fatuzzo, Pasquale; Seminara, Giuseppe; Cataliotti, Alessandro; Stancanelli, Benedetta; Malatino, Lorenzo Salvatore (19 March 2002). "Plasma Norepinephrine Predicts Survival and Incident Cardiovascular Events in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease". Circulation. 105 (11): 1354–1359. doi:10.1161/hc1102.105261. PMID 11901048. S2CID 14366282.
  5. ↑ "Directory of Specialists | European Society of Hypertension | Page 45". www.eshonline.org.
  6. 1 2 "Carmine Zoccali". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  7. ↑ "Chronic Renal Insufficiency: Worldwide - Expertscape.com". expertscape.com.
  8. ↑ "Chronic Kidney Failure: Worldwide - Expertscape.com". expertscape.com.
  9. ↑ "Bio". www.researchgate.net. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  10. ↑ Ioannidis, John P. A.; Baas, Jeroen; Klavans, Richard; Boyack, Kevin W. (12 August 2019). "A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field". PLOS Biology. 17 (8) e3000384. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384. PMC 6699798. PMID 31404057.
  11. ↑ "Top Italian Scientists Clinical Sciences". Top Italian Scientists Home (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  12. ↑ "Past Council Members".
  13. ↑ "Organization & Governance". 12 November 2019.
  14. ↑ "Editorial Board". academic.oup.com. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  15. ↑ "Congress ERA-EDTA 2005 - Final Programme". www.era-edta.org.
  16. ↑ "CONGRESSO NAZIONALE" (PDF). sinitaly.org. 2019. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  17. ↑ "Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology" (PDF). cjasn.asnjournals.org. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  18. ↑ "Hypertension | Editorial Board | AHA/ASA Journals". www.ahajournals.org.
  19. ↑ "Editorial Board: Journal of Hypertension". journals.lww.com.
  20. ↑ "Editorial Board: American Journal of Kidney Diseases". www.ajkd.org.
  21. ↑ "Editorial Board". American Journal of Nephrology. Karger.
  22. ↑ "Editorial Board". Clinical Kidney Journal.
  23. ↑ "European Journal of Clinical Investigation". Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2362.
  24. ↑ "Editorial Board | Nephron | Karger Publishers". karger.com. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
  25. ↑ "Dustri Online Services". Dustri Online Services. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  26. ↑ "Turkish Journal of Nephrology" (PDF). turkjnephrol.org. 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  27. ↑ "Editorial board". www.scielo.mec.pt.
  28. ↑ "XXX EDIZIONE DEL PREMIO DORSO: sezione RICERCA CARMINE ZOCCALI". www.assodorso.it.
  29. ↑ "Hong Kong Society of Nephrology". www.hksn.org.
  30. ↑ "ERA-EDTA Distinguished Fellow (FERA)". ERA-EDTA. 2019-05-20. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  31. 1 2 "American Society of Nephrology | Member Services - FASN Inductees". www.asn-online.org.
  32. ↑ "Historia de Nefralgia" (PDF). www.revistanefrologia.com. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  33. ↑ "Polskie Towarzystwo Nefrologiczne - PTN - O PTN - Członkowie honorowi". ptnefro.pl. Archived from the original on 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  34. ↑ "Official U of O website". www.uniovi.es. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  35. ↑ "ΑΝΑΓΟΡΕΥΣΗ ΕΠΙΤΙΜΟΥ ΔΙΔΑΚΤΟΡΑ ΤΜΗΜΑΤΟΣ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ". University of Patras. September 18, 2019.
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