Michel Burnier Editor

Michel Burnier is Professor of Medicine and head of the Nephrology and Hypertension Consultation division at the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland. He trained in internal medicine and nephrology in Lausanne, Switzerland and at the University of Colorado Health Science Centre in Denver, Colorado. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the European Society of Hypertension and member of the Committee of the Swiss Society of Hypertension. He was president of the Swiss Society of Nephrology and of the Swiss Society of Hypertension. Burnier is a member of the editorial board of several international journals in the field of hypertension and nephrology.
His research interests are the renal mechanisms of hypertension and the pathogenesis of disease progression in chronic kidney diseases with an emphasis on the role of sodium. He has also worked on the clinical pharmacology of new antihypertensive drugs in humans with a focus on drugs affecting the renin-angiotensin system and on drug adherence. In 2010, he received the JM Métry Compliance Award of the ESPACOMP, the European Society of Drug Adherence.