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Evaluation of renal end points in nephrology trials
Weldegiorgis, Misghina Tekeste
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Thanks to God for granting me the wisdom, health, and strength to undertake this research task and enabling me to its completion.I am deeply indebted to my promotors, Prof. Dick de Zeeuw and Prof. Hiddo Lambers Heerspink, for their excellent guidance, expertise, and encouragement during my Ph.D. project. I have been fortunate to have promotors who cared so much about my work, and who gave me valuable feedback so promptly. I thank you so much for the knowledge you have passed on, and I will always be thankful for having the opportunity to be supervised by you. I also would like to extend my gratitude to the many co-authors, for their collaboration, expertise, and input.
To the reading committee assessing this thesis, Prof. R.T. Gansevoort, Prof. S.J.L. Bakker, and Prof. H.G.M. Leufkens, your efforts are highly appreciated.
I would like to express my deepest appreciation to my mother, Minya, for her constant love and support. Remembering her always give me energy. I sincerely miss my father, Tekeste who is not with me to share this joy. I am very much indebted to my siblings, Abeba, Yonas, Yordanos, and Selamawit for their encouragement and emotional support.
Special mention goes to my paranymphs, Sieta de Vries and Kirsten Smits, for your assistance in translating the summary part of my thesis from English to Dutch. I would like to extend thanks to all my colleagues in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology for the friendly and cooperative atmosphere at work and also useful feedback and insightful comments on my work.
Completing this work would have been all difficult were it not for the support provided by all my friends within and outside the Netherlands. I am indebted to them for their help, care, and hospitality.
Acknowledgments
The work conducted in this thesis has been possible by financial support from the research institute, Groningen University Institute for Drug Exploration (GUIDE), UMCG, to which I would like to express my gratitude.
I am deeply indebted to my promotors, Prof. Dick de Zeeuw and Prof. Hiddo Lambers Heerspink, for their excellent guidance, expertise, and encouragement during my Ph.D. project. I have been fortunate to have promotors who cared so much about my work, and who gave me valuable feedback so promptly. I thank you so much for the knowledge you have passed on, and I will always be thankful for having the opportunity to be supervised by you. Hiddo assisted financially for my thesis cover. I am grateful in every possible way.
I would like to acknowledge the co-authors listed in the different chapters, for their collaboration, expertise, and input. Liang Li, Hans-Henrik Parving, Fan Fan Hou, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Tom Greene, Lesley Inker, Ron Gansevoort, Jamie P Dwyer, Hasi Mondal, Josef Coresh, Andrew S. Levey, and Peter Mol, thank you for your contributions to this thesis.
To the reading committee assessing this thesis, Prof. R.T. Gansevoort, Prof. S.J.L. Bakker, and Prof. H.G.M. Leufkens, your efforts are highly appreciated.
I would like to thank my colleagues in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology for the friendly and cooperative atmosphere at work and also useful feedback and insightful comments on my work during the Monday morning meetings and Thursday meetings (gangoverleg). I would like to extend thanks to colleagues from the Departments of Nephrology and Epidemiology. Prof. Flora Haaijer-Ruskamp, Prof. Petra Denig, and dr. Peter Mol, thank you for your guidance and feedback during our weekly
gangoverleg meetings. Special thanks to Paul Smink, for your help with R-syntax during
the beginning of my Ph.D. project. Special mention goes to my paranymphs, Sieta de Vries and Kirsten Smits, for your friendship as well as assistance in translating the summary part of my thesis from English to Dutch. Thank you for being my paranymph. Alexandra, Ardy, and Marja thank you for your help with all the administration issues. Wessel, thank you for your help with my computer and networks issues.
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Completing this work would have been all difficult were it not for the support provided by all my relatives and friends within and outside the Netherlands. Thank you for the help, care, and hospitality. Thank you to the Eritrean community in Utrecht and Groningen, Ethiopian community in Groningen, and African Students Community Groningen for making my stay in the Netherlands full of fun and joy.
Last but not least I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my mother, Minya, for her constant love and support. Remembering her always give me energy. I sincerely miss my father, Tekeste who is not with me to share this joy. I am very much indebted to my siblings, Abeba, Yonas, Yordanos, and Selamawit for their encouragement and emotional support.
Finally, I would like to thank God for granting me the wisdom, health, and strength to undertake this research task and enabling me to its completion.
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Curriculum Vitae
Misghina T. Weldegiorgis was born in mid-eighties in Ethiopia to Eritrean parents. After that, he lived in Asmara, Eritrea with his mother and siblings. He spent his childhood in a multilingual and multicultural environment.Misghina obtained BSc degree in Pharmacy from the University of Asmara in 2008 and received MSc degree in epidemiology with specialization in pharmacoepidemiology from Utrecht University in 2014.
He had obtained a wide-range of expertise as a hospital pharmacist, pharmaceutical information officer, and drug registration and evaluation officer in Eritrea, before starting his Ph.D.
Misghina has tremendous passion and interest in the design and analysis of large-scale randomized clinical trials and observational studies in nephrology. In 2012, he started his Ph.D. research entitled “evaluation of renal end points in nephrology trials” under the supervision of prof. dr. Dick de Zeeuw and prof. dr. Hiddo Lambers Heerspink at the University Medical Center Groningen. In February 2017, Misghina started working as an epidemiologist at the George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford.
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Curriculum Vitae
Misghina T. Weldegiorgis was born in mid-eighties in Ethiopia to Eritrean parents. After that, he lived in Asmara, Eritrea with his mother and siblings. He spent his childhood in a multilingual and multicultural environment.Misghina obtained BSc degree in Pharmacy from the University of Asmara in 2008 and received MSc degree in epidemiology with specialization in pharmacoepidemiology from Utrecht University in 2014.
He had obtained a wide-range of expertise as a hospital pharmacist, pharmaceutical information officer, and drug registration and evaluation officer in Eritrea, before starting his Ph.D.
Misghina has tremendous passion and interest in the design and analysis of large-scale randomized clinical trials and observational studies in nephrology. In 2012, he started his Ph.D. research entitled “evaluation of renal end points in nephrology trials” under the supervision of prof. dr. Dick de Zeeuw and prof. dr. Hiddo Lambers Heerspink at the University Medical Center Groningen. In February 2017, Misghina started working as an epidemiologist at the George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford.
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Evaluation of renal
end points in nephrology trials
Misghina T. Weldegiorgis
E va l u a T ion of r E nal E nd poin T s in n E phrol og y T rials | Mis ghina T . W E ld E giorgisInvitation
You are cordially invited to attend the public defence of the doctoral thesis entitled
Evaluation
of renal end points
in nephrology trials
by Misghina T. Weldegiorgis On Wednesday 8 November 2017 at 16.15 hours in the Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen Reception immediately following in the Spiegelzaalof the Academiegebouw Misghina T. Weldegiorgis
110 Rose Hill, OX4 4HX Oxford, England misgu22@gmail.com Paranymphs: Kirsten Smits k.p.j.smits@umcg.nl Sieta de Vries s.t.de.vries@umcg.nl
