Runolfur Palsson, M.D., FRCP, FACP, FASN
Past President, European Federation of Internal Medicine
Professor of Medicine
University of Iceland Chief, Division of Nephrology, Landspitali–The National University Hospital of Iceland
Runolfur Palsson is Professor of Medicine at the University of Iceland, and Chief of the Division of Nephrology and Director of the Organ Transplantation Program at Landspitali–The National University Hospital of Iceland.
Dr. Palsson received his Medical Degree from the University of Iceland in 1985 and completed a residency in internal medicine at Hartford Hospital and University of Connecticut in 1991, and a fellowship in nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston in 1996. He was Consultant in Nephrology at the Reykjavik Hospital from 1996 to 1998 and at the University Hospital from 1998 until 2004, when he became Chief of the Nephrology Division.
Dr. Palsson was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Iceland in 1999, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004 and Professor of Medicine in 2014. Dr. Palsson’s research focuses primarily on the epidemiology and genetics of chronic kidney disease and kidney stone disease.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nephrology.
Dr. Palsson served as President of the Icelandic Society of Internal Medicine from 2001 to 2016.
He was Secretary of the European Union of Medical Specialists Section of Internal Medicine from 2008 to 2012 and is currently Vice-President of the Section. Dr. Palsson was President of the European Federation of Internal Medicine from 2016 to 2018. He is presently a member of the European Board of Internal Medicine.