Mustafa ARICI, MD., is Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) at Hacettepe University in Ankara-TURKEY. He is member of the Science Academy of TURKEY, Registry Committee Member of ERA and Board Member to Turkish Society of Nephrology. He served as a Council Member of ERA and Executive Committee Member of KDIGO. He undertook his undergraduate and postgraduate educations in Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University. He had awarded a training grant from ISN and studied in the field of “proteinuria and renal fibrosis” in the Department of Nephrology, University of Leicester, UK as an ISN fellow. His main research interests are concentrated on chronic kidney disease and hypertension with a special focus on mechanisms involved in progression of kidney disease, albuminuria and fibrosis, cardiovascular risks and complications in CKD and dialysis, epidemiology of hypertension and cardiorenal risks of sodium consumption.