Liliana Garneata
Romania
Pioneer Award: Eastern & Central Europe
The ISN Pioneer Awards, restricted to individuals from non-high-income countries, honor the ‘unsung heroes’ of nephrology: doctors who have made extraordinary efforts to advance nephrology in a specific country or region.
Professor Liliana Garneata is an associate professor of nephrology in the Department of Nephrology and Internal Medicine at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy and head of the 1st nephrology department at Dr. Carol Davila Teaching Hospital of Nephrology in Bucharest, Romania.
Professor Garneata graduated from the Faculty of General Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, in 1992 and completed her Ph.D. in nephrology in 2001. She obtained an associate professor of nephrology in 2017. She became a senior consultant in nephrology at Dr. Carol Davila Teaching Hospital of Nephrology in 2003 and head of the 1st nephrology department in 2015. She has been the director of the Romanian Renal Registry since 2007.
Professor Garneata’s special interests are nutrition and metabolism in kidney diseases, diabetic nephropathy, epidemiology of CKD, renal anemia, and oral health impairment in CKD.
Professor Garneata comments, “All my colleagues in Central and Eastern Europe and myself, we are honored by this outstanding award. Definitely, it was teamwork!”
Dr. Garneata will receive the 2025 Pioneer Award for Eastern and Central Europe at a regional meeting in 2025.