Vlado Perkovic is Executive Director of The George Institute, Australia, Professor of Medicine at UNSW Sydney, and a Staff Specialist in Nephrology at the Royal North Shore Hospital. His research focus is in clinical trials and epidemiology, in particular in preventing the progression of kidney disease and its complications. He leads several major international clinical trials, serves on the Steering Committees of several others, and has led the development of George Clinical, the global clinical trials arm of The George Institute. He has been involved in developing Australian and global guidelines in kidney disease, cardiovascular risk assessment and blood pressure management.

Vlado holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Melbourne and completed his undergraduate training at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. He is a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Committee on Research Translation; is Chair of the International Society of Nephrology Action for Clinical Trials (ISN-ACT) group; and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and of the American Society of Nephrology

ephrology was at the Jimenez Diaz Foundation in Madrid. He is currently the Professor at the Public Health and Preventative Medicine department of the Autonomia University and Head of Cardiovascular and Renal Risk at the Insituto de Investigacion 12 de Octubre.

He is an international fellow of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research and of the Council of the Kidney in CV disease of the AHA. Pr Ruilop is the President of the Spanish Hypertension Society and was an Officer at large for the Scientific Council of the European Society from 1993 – 1997.

Currently he is also a member of the the Steering Committee for the following studies: HOT, INSIGHT, SCOPE, CONVINCE, ROADMAP, ASCEND and the European coordinator of the study IDNT.

A member of the editorial board of: Journal of Hypertension, Blood Pressure, Medicina Clinica, Hypertension, Journal of Human Hypertension, Journal American Society of Nephrology and Nephrology, Dialysis & Transplantation.