Foresto Renato Demarchi

My academic career was designed at Escola Paulista de Medicina / Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). My contact with Nephrology started in graduation by participating in the Tutoring group of Prof. José Medina Pestana and interacting with nephrologists, outpatient clinics, and wards at Hospital do Rim. During my Medical Residency in Nephrology, I did an observational internship with Prof. Leonardo Vidal Riella at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. As a result, I completed the Residency in Nephrology in 2018, with the honors of being awarded the "Sérgio Stella Award" at my graduation as an outstanding resident and receiving the Title of Specialist in Nephrology by the Brazilian Society of Nephrology in the same year. Soon after, I joined the Nephrology Residency Preceptorship Program at UNIFESP, where I remained for one year, performing Assistance, Teaching, and Research activities focused on medical residency. The following year, I was absorbed by the Teaching and Research Nucleus of Hospital do Rim, in which I developed the role of Coordinator for four years, being responsible for the hospital's interns, residents, and students enrolled in the Master and Ph.D. in Kidney Transplantation in the Division of Nephrology at UNIFESP. About my complementary academic training, I completed the Training Course in Clinical Research in 2019, promoted by Invitare, São Paulo. In 2021, I finished my Master's project in Kidney Transplantation, and currently, I'm developing my Ph.D. in COVID-19 vaccine immune response in CKD patients. Complementing my work in research, I was invited by two Brazilian journals, the Brazilian Journal of Nephrology and the Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira, to be a peer-reviewer. Furthermore, I have extensive participation in societies of our specialty, as a member of the Brazilian Society of Nephrology since 2018, of the Young Nephrologists Committee since 2021, of the Brazilian Association of Organ Transplantation, of the Society of Transplantation of Latin America and the Caribbean (STALyC) and The Transplantation Society (TTS). Finally, my entrepreneurial and restless spirit has always placed me at the forefront of new academic activities, such as the idealization, creation, and presidency of the Academic League of Organ Transplantation at UNIFESP (2010-2012), design of the Extension Project "Transplanting Ideas" to publicize the theme Organ donation in elementary schools in São Paulo (2011), acting as Representative of Nephrology Residents at UNIFESP (2016-2018), reorganization of the Preceptorship Program in Nephrology at UNIFESP (2018) and restructuring of the Teaching and Research Center from Hospital do Rim (2019-2023).