[toggle title=”2014″]Year 2014 there was no Joint Congress of the Nephrology and Hypertension Societies.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”2013″]Year 2013, The Joint Congress was held on the days 13 al 16 November at the Gran Hotel of the Chillán hot springs. Our international guest was Dr. George Bakris, known worldwide for his participation in the main clinical studies of arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus. [/toggle]
[toggle title=”2012″]Year 2012, The Joint Congress was held at the Enjoy Hotel in Pucón at the end of September. Our international guest was Dr.. Karol Kotliar, Director of the Department of Academic Development, Academic Health Center. Director of the Arterial Hypertension Center, Austral University Hospital. Director of the Master's Degree in Vascular Mechanics and Arterial Hypertension, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Austral University. Buenos Aires, in Argentina, HTN research specialist in the areas of vascular aging and renovascular HTN. [/toggle]
[toggle title=”2011″]In the year 2011, in the port of Coquimbo, Between the days 28 of September and 1 October, The Joint Congress was held. Our guest was Dr.. Luis Ruilope, español, leading specialist in hypertension and clinical studies, who works in the hospital 12 October of Madrid. His lectures were related to micro-albuminuria as a risk marker for kidney and cardiovascular damage.. The titles of the conferences were: “Current challenges in the treatment of hypertension”, “Cross-talk between kidney and heart”, y “Primary prevention of micro-albuminuria”.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”2010″]In the year 2010, The Joint Congress was held for the first time in the port of Coquimbo between the days 29 of September and 2 October. Our guest was Dr.. Celso Amadeo, Head of Hypertension and Nephrology Division, Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology, São Paulo – Brazil, and his lectures were:
- Advances in the diagnosis and management of secondary hyperension.
- New relevant molecular mechanisms in clinical hypertension.
- Kidney protection in hypertension treatment 2010.
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[toggle title=”2009″]In the year 2009, The congress took place in the city of Puerto Varas del 4 al 7 of November, the symposium being on Friday 6 of November. Our guest was Dr.. Nancy Brown, researcher, specialized in the biology of mineralocorticoids and their renal effects.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”2008″]In the year 2008 The congress was held on the days 1 al 4 October in the city of Pucón, having our society as a guest Dr.. Gamba, specialist in the molecular forms of HTN, particularly of disorders of renal tubular reabsorption of sodium.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”2007″]He 2007 For the first time we have two international guests, Dr.. Philis Augustus, specialist at Cornell Hospital in New York, world expert in the area of hypertension in women and hypertension during pregnancy and Dr.. Richard Johnson, who visited us for the second time and presented two of his main lines of research: one related to the role of fructose, used as a sweetener instead of sucrose in the food industry, in the obesity and diabetes pandemic, and the other, his latest basic and clinical studies on uric acid as a trigger and aggravator of hypertension, kidney diseases and cardiovascular diseases. The Congress was held on the days 26 al 29 September in the tourist city of Pucón.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”2006″]Year 2006 Our guest was Dr.. Javier Diez, prominent nephrologist at the University of Navarra, Renowned Spanish researcher dedicated to the relationships of the renin-angiotensin system and cardiovascular damage in patients with chronic kidney disease.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”2005″]He 2005 we have Dr. Carlos Ferrario, Argentinian, known worldwide for his research on the generation and renal and vascular mechanisms of Angiotensin II and 1-7, and for his studies on Losartan, the first Angiotensin II receptor antagonist.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”2004″]Year 2004 Our foreign guest was Dr.. Emmanuel Bravo, endocrinologist at Cleveland Clinic, world-famous expert in secondary hypertension issues, such as primary hyperaldosteronism and pheochromocytoma, who delighted us with his presentation on Endocrine Hypertension.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”2003″]He 2003 Our guest was Dr.. Antonio Coca, español, expert in high blood pressure as a cerebrovascular risk factor and brain damage. Particularly interesting was knowing his thoughts on the relationships between dementia, hypertension and antihypertensive therapy.[/toggle]
[toggle title=”2002″]The guest of the year 2002 it was dr. Richard Johnson, who presented his interesting research related to the role of uric acid in hypertension, kidney and cardiovascular diseases. Undoubtedly, His statements on uric acid as a probable cardiovascular and renal risk factor permeated the atmosphere of the Congress.[/toggle]