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Sophia Lionaki is a nephrologist with expertise in glomerular diseases of the kidney. She obtained her medical degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, in 1996 and her PhD in 2010 from the University of Ioannina. She did a clinical research fellowship in "Autoimmune Diseases of the Kidney" at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, for one year and subsequently worked for the related program

of the National Institute of Health, USA, as a clinical researcher for two years. Her research interests include ANCA vasculitis, lupus nephritis, and primary glomerular diseases in the native kidneys and the renal allograft. She currently works in the Department of Nephrology of Laiko Hospital in Athens, Greece, since 2008 with clinical, research, and teaching responsibilities.

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