1 MD, PhD. Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Department at Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil. PhD in Nephrology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, BR.
2 MD, PhD. Full Professor of the Nephrology discipline at Escola Paulista de Medicina UNIFESP; Superintendent Director of Hospital do Rim, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
3 MD, PhD. Vice-director, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo (SP), Brazil; Full Professor, Department of Cardiopneumology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo (SP), Brazil; Director of the Scientific Department, Associação Paulista de Medicina (APM), São Paulo (SP), Brazil.