Javier de Arteaga is currently Assistant Profesor and coordinator of the Postgraduate Nephrology course of the Catholic University from Cordoba, Argentina. He is a staff member, of the Nephrology service and the Kidney and Kidney and Pancreas transplant program at Hospital Privado, centro medico de Cordoba, Argentina. He is chief of the peritoneal dialysis section at the same hospital. Dr de Arteaga, received his MD degree at the National University from Cordoba. First he finished an internal medicine residency at the Hospital Privado, and then completed a Nephrology training at Lyon, France . As of 1986 he is the chief from dialysis, nephrology service at the Hospital Privado. He received an ISPD scholarship to spend a 2 months period in Lund, Sweden, under the supervision of Dr. Bengt Rippe.
He has collaborated, in the peritoneal dialysis field , more specifically, in the physiological aspects of the three pore model theory, with 3 papers in the PDI and submitted to international PD congresses more than 10 papers. Also has been involved as a principal investigator in a multicentric cardiovascular study from Argentina and Uruguay, the Rio de la Plata study, results have been recently published at Kidney International. The same group is now working on a new clinical research area with the CECODIAR study which is still recluting patients as of October 2010.
Dr de Arteaga was the president of the 2nd LAC chapter from ISPD which took place in Foz de Iguazu, Brazil on July 2009.
Currently, he is investigating actively in the peritoneal physiology area, mostly in the free water transport (aquaporins) in the posttransplant state.
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