Editorial introductions

Abstract

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension was launched in 1992. It is part of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of nephrology and hypertension is divided into 12 sections that are each reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Maarten W. TaalMaarten W. TaalDr Maarten W. Taal graduated from the University of Cape Town Medical School, South Africa, in 1987. After completing his post-graduate training in internal medicine and nephrology at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa he joined the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Physiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA under the directorship of Barry M. Brenner, MD. His research focused on mechanisms underlying the progression of chronic kidney disease and earned him a Doctor of Medicine degree. He subsequently moved to the United Kingdom where he was appointed a Consultant Renal Physician at Royal Derby Hospital, UK, in 2002 and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK in 2011. He was appointed Professor of Medicine in the Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine at the University of Nottingham in April 2014, where he leads the Centre for Kidney Research and Innovation. His current research interests include chronic kidney disease progression, diabetic nephropathy, renal osteodystrophy and cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). He has a career-long interest in CKD and co-authored the Renal Association's Clinical Practice Guidelines for CKD. He serves as an Editor for Brenner and Rector's The Kidney, Section Editor for Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension and Academic Editor for PLOS Medicine. He is Chair of the UK Kidney Research Consortium CKD Clinical Study Group and Immediate Past President of the British Renal Society. David J. CohenDavid J. CohenDavid J. Cohen, MD, MA is the Daniel Midler-John A Catsimatidis Professor of Nephrology (in Medicine) and the Medical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, USA/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA. He completed his nephrology training at Columbia University, followed by a research fellowship in the transplantation and immunogenetics laboratory of Dr Bernard Carpenter at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He has been on the full-time faculty at Columbia University since 1983. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Transplantation, and served as the head of the Public Policy Committee for many years. He was the co-Editor of NephSAP Transplantation in 2019, 2013 and 2011. His research interests include the clinical application of new immunosuppressive medications, live donor advocacy and improving access to kidney transplantation through reducing the number of kidney discards.