Dr Tomson reported no relevant financial relationships Carmine Zoccali, MD, is Director of the Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplantation and Chief of the Clinical Epidemiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension Unit of the National Research Council-IBIM at Riuniti Hospital, Calabria. He is Professor of Nephrology at the Postgraduate School of Nephrology, Universities of Palermo and Messina, Sicily, Italy. Having trained in medicine at the University of Rome, he completed specialist training in renal diseases, hypertension, internal medicine and clinical epidemiology. Dr Zoccali s research interests cover hypertension, cardio- vascular complications in chronic renal failure, kidney disease progression and the epidemiology of chronic renal failure. He has contributed over 600 publications in these areas, including more than 400 papers in international peer- reviewed journals with a Hirsch index of 52. Dr Zoccali founded NDT-Educational in 2004 and directed its online educational resources between 2004 2009, and he is presently the Editor-in-Chief of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. Dr Zoccali also holds editorial positions in several national and international nephrology journals including Clinical Nephrology, Clinical biographic and disclosure information Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Hypertension, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Journal of Hypertension, Journal of Nephrology, Kidney International, Nephron Clinical Practice, and PlosOne. An ex-officio council member of the European Renal Association European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA), and of their selection committee, he is a member of numerous other nephrology societies. He was also Chairman of the European Dialysis and Transplant Registry (2003 2009), President of the Italian Society of Nephrology (2007 2008) and member of the KDIGO Board of Directors. Dr Zoccali reported no relevant financial relationships KDIGO CHAIRS Bertram L Kasiske, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, USA. 