Working groups
Objectives
This WG is aimed at defining the best methodological approach for the European clinical and research community to assess hypertension-induced organ damage.
Specific Tasks
Key results
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Prof Mieczyslaw Litwin
WG3 Leader.
IMPACT of high BP on target organ damage in children and adolescents
Currently Professor of pediatrics, nephrology, and arterial hypertension at The Children’s Memorial Health Institute (Warsaw). His main clinical interest is chronic kidney disease, pathogenesis of arterial hypertension and hypertensive target organ damage.

Prof Augustina Jankauskiene
WG3 Vice Leader.
IMPACT of high BP on target organ damage in children and adolescents
Prof Augustina Jankauskiene is a Doctor of Medical Sciences and a Professor of the Department of Pediatrics (Vilnius University). She is the head of the Center of Excellence for Rare Kidney Diseases and Defects in the Formation of the Urogenital System since 2015.
She is a member of the International Association of Pediatric Nephrologists, European Pediatric Nephrologists, Lithuanian Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, a member of the Lithuanian Society of Pediatric Nephrologists and the chairwoman of the society.
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WG members
Michael Hecht Olsen
Denmark
Holbaek Hospital
Katerina Chrysaidou
Greece
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Augustina Jankauskiene
Lithuania
Vinnius University Hospital Sanatros Klinikos
Mieczyslaw Litwin
Poland
Children’s Memorial Health Institute
Dr Tonje BÅRDSEN
Norway
Haukeland University Hospital
Giacomo Simonetti
Switzerland
Università della Svizzera Italiana
Rina Rus
Slovenia
University Children’s Hospital Ljubljana
Bojko Bjelakovic
Serbia
Medical Faculty University of Nis
Verónica Martínez
Spain
Organización
Łukasz Obrycki
Poland
Children’s Memorial Health Institute
Prof AYHAN TASTEKIN
Turkey
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Dr Joanna SLADOWSKA-KOZLOWSKA
Germany
Universitiy of Heidelberg
Prof MANIKA KREKA (FACE)
Albania
UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE
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