Beatriz Fernandez-fernandez MD, PhD

Beatriz Fernandez-Fernandez is a Staff Nephrologist at the Jimenez Diaz Foundation Health Research Institute (IIS-FJD), Director of the diabetic kidney disease clinic, and Associate Professor in Medicine at the Autonomous University in Madrid, Spain. She is an early career researcher, having obtained her PhD in 2017. Expertscape already identifies her as one of the top 40 European and top 4 Spanish researchers in the diabetic kidney disease field, according to her publication track record of the most recent 10 years. She is a Scientist-Physician and Researcher in the Nephrology, Vascular Pathology, Hypertension and Diabetes group at IIS-FJD. She is the former secretary of JovSEN (young platform of the Spanish Society of Nephrology), and a current board member of both EURECAm (European Renal and Cardiovascular Medicine) and GEENDIAB (Spanish Diabetic Nephropathy Group).

She is mainly interested in diabetic kidney diseases and their implications in special populations, as well as gender differences in both CKD and diabetic kidney diseases. She is the Principal Investigator for the Instituto de Salud Carlos III research project “Gender differences in the evolution and results of treated diabetic kidney disease” and has been an investigator for EU projects, for example as EC PRIORITY Coordinator.