Dr. Hideki Kawanishi is the vice president and the director of artificial organs & surgery of Tsuchiya General Hospital, & clinical professor of medicine Hiroshima University, JAPAN. He has been an active clinical surgeon for past 40 years and nephrologist for 30 years. He is managing over 1,400 chronic dialysis patients include 200 peritoneal dialysis patients in addition to maintaining acute kidney failure program.
 
He is a president of Japanese Society for Dialysis Access (JSDA), also is organized JSPD, JSHDF, ISBP、APSDA and associate editor of Blood Purification, & Journal of Vascular Access and editorial board of Peritoneal Dialysis International. Moreover, he is a position of steering committee for PDOPPS international.