Skopje, N. Macedonia
Goce Spasovski is from N. Macedonia, postgraduated in nephrology at the Un. at the University of Antwerp, Katowice and “Laiko” University Hospital in Athens, PhD at the Universities of Skopje and Antwerp. He was PI in more than 20 clinical trials related to progression of CKD (two FP7 projects), anaemia, CKD-MBD and bone biopsy-based studies, immunotolerance in kidney transplant recipients etc. He finished his term as an ERA-EDTA Ordinary Council Member in 2009 and term 2016/19, then he was a Chairman of the Committee for CME activities at ERA-EDTA up to 2013/14, ERBP advisory board member, Co-Chairman of the ERBP hyponatraemia group, member of the ERBP transplant guideline and DESCARTES group. He is also a President of the Macedonian Society of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Artificial Organs, Past President of the Balkan Association of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Artificial Organs, ISBP Board member since 2018, member of the ISN GO Central & East European Committee, EUTox group, the KDIGO Implementation Task Force leader for central and east Europe.
In the kidney transplant field, he is a DICG member – Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group, nominated National Focal Point person from the Ministry of Health as National expert for transplantation and organ donation at South Eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN) – Regional Health Development Center (RHDC), and an International advisor at RHDC – SEEHN on organ donation and transplantation, serving also as a Steering Committee member.
As leader of kidney transplantation in his country he has initiated and collaborated with the urologists to increase the number of kidney transplantation in N. Macedonia, as well as to reestablish the deceased donor program with the help of Croatia through SEEHN.
In kidney transplantation as main field of interest he was a part of the research in protocol biopsies, guidelines production (ERBP & DESCARTES), development of models for improvement of the regional networking in kidney transplantation, evaluation of the donor and graft function by various methods etc. He is currently head of the transplant unit at the Nephrology Clinic in Skopje, N. Macedonia.
He was organizer and President of many national, Balkan and international (world) Congresses in the field of nephrology, as well as many CME courses supported by ERA and ISN.
In 2023 he was a winner of the ISN pioneering award and top 2% of the world most cited authors based on Web of science. His academic opus has more than 500 published articles and book chapters (246 medline cited), 8510 citations and Hirsh index of 44.