Dr. Ana Sánchez Fructuoso is currently the Chief of the Nephrology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. She is also Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Dr.  Ana Sánchez Fructuoso graduated in Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she also obtained a PhD in Medicine and a Master in Clinical and Statistical Investigations.

She undertook her residency at the Department of Nephrology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, before becoming a staff member in 1993. Since 1996, she managed the hospitalization unit within the Kidney Transplantation Program at that Hospital, and has had a very active role in the development of a new program using uncontrolled  donors after circulatory death for renal transplantation. Now, the Hospital Clinico is the world leader in this type of transplantation. Dra Sánchez Fructuoso  is author or co-author of more than 600 congress communications and peer-reviewed journal articles,   has given up to 150 conferences and invited lectures worldwide. She is a member of many international transplant societies, reviewer of a number of major international transplant journals and a Principal Investigator in numerous clinical studies.  The main interests in clinical research are in the following fields : expanded criteria donors, evaluation of immunosuppressive drugs, and individualization of treatments through pharmacogenetic and pharmacokinetic studies.