Annette Bruchfeld
Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University,
Linköping, and Department of Renal Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and CLINTEC Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Professor Annette Bruchfeld is a Senior Consultant and Professor of Nephrology at Linköping University and affiliated with Karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm, Sweden where she graduated with an MD in 1988 and defended her PhD thesis in 2003.
Professor Bruchfeld´s main clinical and research interests include ANCA-vasculitis and immune mediated kidney diseases, and CKD progression. As of 2026 she has published over 220 papers and reviews in peer-reviewed journals (H-index 54 Google Scholar) and has contributed to book chapters in Nephrology and Rheumatology. She has supervised several PhD students at KI and is currently supervising PhD students both in Linköping and at KI and has recently hosted a European Renal Association (ERA) research fellow in Linköping working on a Crescentic GN project.
Professor Bruchfeld served as council member of ERA in 2017 -2020 and was the Scientific chair for the ERA congress in Paris in 2022. In 2021-2024 Annette Bruchfeld was the chair of the Immunonephrology Working Group (IWG) and is now a member of the board of IWG, the Scientific Advisory Board of the ERA, and is also a long-standing member of the European Vasculitis Society (EUVAS). She is also one of the current theme editors of Clinical Kidney Journal.
