Doctor Roxana Klepper

Roxana Klepper graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. She completed her pediatrics internship at Hasharon Hospital in Petah Tikva, then a residency in pediatric nephrology at Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikva. She further improved her qualifications at the Israeli Society of Nephrology and Hypertension.

The next stage of her professional growth included studies at the Academy of Dialysis and Hypertension and completion of an international course organized by the Israeli Society of Nephrology and Hypertension.

Doctor Klepper is a member of the Israeli societies of clinical pediatrics and pediatric nephrology, where she serves on the governing board. She is also a member of the Israeli Transplantation Association.

Today Roxana Klepper heads the nephrology department of the Dana-Dwek Children's Hospital at Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv. She is also deputy head of the pediatric nephrology and dialysis department at Schneider Children's Medical Center. She is a respected specialist with many years of experience, in demand in Israel and far beyond. Doctor Klepper takes on the most severe cases, and thousands of young patients have been helped by her. Her high professionalism and caring attitude toward children help them recover quickly and return to a full life.

Roxana Klepper successfully combines clinical and administrative work with academic and research activity. She is a clinical instructor at the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University and teaches nursing students a course on nephrology and dialysis in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units. Doctor Klepper is the author of a dozen scientific articles published in popular medical journals.

• Pediatric hypertension;
• Prenatal counseling when congenital kidney and urinary tract malformations are suspected;
• Urinary tract infections;
• Vasculitis with kidney involvement in children;
• Kidney stones in children;
• Proteinuria and nephrotic syndrome in children, including genetic diseases;
• Monitoring of children with congenital kidney and urinary tract malformations;
• Monitoring and treatment of children with chronic kidney failure;
• Dialysis in children, including peritoneal dialysis in small children and infants;
• Preparation and eligibility assessment for kidney transplantation in children;
• Follow-up of children after kidney transplantation, including rejection cases.