
Vladimir Tesar
Prof. Vladimir Tesar, MD, PhD, MBA, FERA, FASN
Head, Department of Nephrology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague
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
2014–2017, president, International Society of Blood Purification
1999–2004, 2010–2012 and 2017–2020, president, Czech Society of Nephrology
Since 2019 – member of the Council of the International Society of Nephrology, vice-chair CEE regional board, since 2021 member of the Executive Committee of ISN Council and the chair of the CEE board
Member of the board of KDIGO guidelines for glomerulonephritis 2021
Substantial part of the publications deals with diagnosis and treatment of glomerulonephritides, mainly ANCA-positive vasculitis and lupus nephritis, IgA and membranous nephropathy and FSGS, 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 400 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 14 000, Hirsch index 48, editorial board: Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, subject editor, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
National coordinator and member of the steering committee of several large randomized controlled trials in patients with CKD (e.g. AURORA, SHARP), diabetic kidney disease (e.g. SONAR, CCX140), IgAN (e.g.NEPHIGAN, PROTECT, ARTEMIS), FSGS (DUET, DUPLEX), membranous nephropathy, ANCA-asociated vasculitis (e.g. CYCAZAREM, CYCLOPS, IMPROVE, MYCYC, RITUXVAS, CLEAR, PEXIVAS)
Organization of international congresses
1999 – president of the 17th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Blood Purification
2003 – president of the 11th International ANCA and Vasculitis Workshop
2005 – president of the 6th European Meeting on Peritoneal Dialysis
2007 – president of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Blood Purification
2011 – president of the 48th congress of the European Renal Association/European Dialysis and Transplantation Association
smaller meetings and educational courses: 3rd meeting of the International Federation of Kidney Foundations, meeting of the European Vasculitis Study Group, Nephrology Winter School (many times)
Clinical research not mentioned above
Founder and organizer of the Czech Registry of Renal Biopsies and the Czech National Registry of ANCA-associated vasculitis
Co-organizer of the large screening study of Fabry disease among the dialysis population in the Czech Republic
Organizer of several Czech cooperative studies in lupus nephritis and hypertension