Runolfur Palsson MD, FACP, FASN

Runolfur Palsson is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Iceland Faculty of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Nephrology at Landspitali University Hospital. He is also Director of the Organ Transplantation Program and Associate Director of the Internal Medicine Training Program at Landspitali University Hospital. Dr. Palsson received his Medical Degree from the University of Iceland in 1985 and subsequently completed a two-year internship in internal medicine, surgery, and pediatrics at the National Hospital and Reykjavik Hospital, and in family medicine at the Keflavik Health Care Center. He then served a one-year residency in internal medicine with emphasis on diabetes and nephrology at the National Hospital in Reykjavik.

Dr. Palsson continued his postgraduate education in the US, where he completed a residency in internal medicine at Hartford Hospital and University of Connecticut in 1991, and a fellowship in nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston in 1996. He was Consultant in Nephrology at the Reykjavik Hospital from 1996 to 1998 and at Landspitali University Hospital from1998 until 2004, when he was appointed Chief of the Nephrology Division. Dr. Palsson’s research focuses primarily on the epiemiology of chronic kidney disease and the epidemiology and genetics of kidney stones.