About the Author

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Bradley A. Warady, MD Professor of Pediatrics University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine The McLaughlin Family Endowed Chair in Nephrology Director, Division of Pediatric Nephrology Director, Dialysis and Transplantation Children's Mercy Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri, USA Steven R. Alexander, MD Professor of Pediatrics Chief, Division of Pediatric Nephrology Stanford University School of Medicine Marian and Jack Euphrat Distinguished Packard Fellow Lucile Packard Children's Hospital-Stanford Stanford, California, USA Franz Schaefer, MD Professor of Pediatrics University of Heidelberg Head, Pediatric Nephrology Division Director, KfH Kidney Center for Children and Adolescents Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Heidelberg, Germany