José Divino graduated from Escola Baiana de Medicina e Saude Publica in Salvador, Brazil and is a Nephrologist certified both in Brazil and in Sweden. He performed his nephrology training at the Depts. of Renal Medicine in Lund and Stockholm, Sweden.Thereafter he returned to Brazil where he founded the Dept. of Renal Medicine at Hospital Sao Severino, Sorocaba in 1983. In 1987, Dr Divino moved back to Sweden and worked both as a nephrologist and a researcher with Professor Jonas Bergstrom. In 1992 he also became the head nephrology doctor at the Sophiahemmet Royal Hospital in Stockholm. From 1983-1998, Dr Divino worked during part of each year in Brazil.He received his Ph.D. with the thesis "Erythrocyte amino acids in health and renal failure and their association to the IGF-I/IGFBP-1 axis" by the Divisions of Renal Medicine, Dept of Clinical Sciences and the Endocrine & Diabetes Unit, Dept. of Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet in 1998.Dr Divino was one of the pioneer nephrologists for CAPD both in Sweden (Lund, 1980) and Brasil (Sorocaba, 1984). He has also worked in the clinical development of the on-line convective therapies, participated in many studies in the area of nephrology/dialysis and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers. He is one of the leaders of the BRAZPD cohort study, which has already resulted in several papers published on the Brazilian PD experience.In 1999 he joined Baxter Renal Division where he worked for 12 years, initially as a Medical Director for the Renal Division Europe based in Brussels, then as Medical Vice-President for Latin America based in Mexico City, and finally as Medical Director for Eastern and Central Europe, Middle East and Africa based in Zurich. During this period his focus was to support and develop clinically and scientifically PD therapy in these regions.Since April 2011 he has been working as Vice-President for Home Therapies for Diaverum Health Care, with the main goal of developing home therapies (PD and HHD) in the countries where Diaverum is established

 Dr Divino maintains clinical investigation and collaboration with several nephrology groups around the world via his affiliation with the Karolinska Institutet.