Kyriaki Stamatelou MD MBA

Dr Kyriaki Stamatelou, MD (Athens), MBA (Keele) Nephrologist Web site: www.nephros.eu [email protected] Educated in Greece, Athens University Medical School.  Specialized in Nephrology (Renal medicine).  Graduated from Keele University, UK with an MBA Degree: Health Executive, from the “Centre for Health Planning and Management”. For her studies she has received scholarships from the World Health Organization, the Great Britain Commonwealth Office and the Greek Nephrology Association. She has collaborated with the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA, and she drove a major focus of the US health system on kidney stones and elucidated their increasing impact on the population worldwide. She worked as a Fellow/Nephrology specialist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia. For the past 20 years she is the Director of the Renal Departments of several private Hospitals and Dialysis Clinics in Athens, Greece, treating hundreds of dialysis and nephrology patients. She has a large personal experience in treating patients with all sorts of kidney diseases. Chronic Kidney Disease, Acute Kidney Injury, Hypertension, Diabetic Nephropathy, Glomerular Diseases and the whole spectrum of nephrology problems. Her special scientific interests include Kidney Stone Disease, prevention and therapy, CKD-Mineral Bone Disease and Dialysis therapies. Her private practice in Athens is a referral point for patients with complicated and recurrent kidney stones. She is an expert on Quality Assurance and ISO standards in the Health Care, ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and ISO 15224, and EU Health related Directives. She is a certified Accreditor currently working with the Greek Accreditation Authority, ESYD, assessing Quality Certification Bodies in Greece and overseas and actively contributing in improving the quality of health care services in Greece.