Professor Michał Nowicki, MD, is a distinguished professor of medicine and nephrology and the Head of the Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation of the Medical University of Lodz, Poland. He graduated from the Silesian Medical University in Katowice, Poland, in 1988, and worked in the Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Metabolic Disease at his Alma Mater for the first 12 years. From 1992 to 1994, he was also a research fellow at the Department of Nephrology at Ruperto Carola University in Heidelberg, Germany. From 2000 to 2008, he was the Head of the Nephrology and Dialysis Department of the Polish Mother's Health Memorial Institute in Lodz. Since 2003, he has been the Head of the Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation of the Medical University of Lodz. He received the title of Professor in 2002. He is a specialist in internal medicine, nephrology, hypertension, and clinical transplantology. His main areas of scientific interest include pathophysiology and metabolism in uremia and primary arterial hypertension, renal anemia, CKD-MBD, physical rehabilitation in dialysis, health consequences of air pollution and climate changes, and rare and ultra-rare diseases involved with kidneys.
