I graduated in Medicine at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and did a Doctoral Thesis there at the Biocenter. I worked several years in Internal Medicine and Renal Medicine in Switzerland up to obtaining specialist level. I did the MSc in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2003 and joined directly afterwards. I hold a clinical contract as an Honorary Consultant Nephrologist with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation trust.
Since 2023 I am sharing the role of Medical Director at LSHTM and represent LSHTM's interests within UCLPartners.
Since 2023 I am sharing the role of Medical Director at LSHTM and represent LSHTM's interests within UCLPartners.
Affiliations
Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Centres
Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health
Centre for Global Chronic Conditions
Malaria Centre
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre
Antimicrobial Resistance Centre
Teaching
Until 2017 I was the Programme Director for the MSc in epidemiology. I have now stepped down, and am the Exam Board Chair for the MSc in Epidemiology. Until 2023 I also co-organised the Distance Learning Module in Global Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology (EPM307). I teach face to face MSc students in Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health, Extended Epidemiology and Study Design.
Research
I am involved in research on risk factors and outcomes of chronic kidney disease.
I was the analytic lead of the National CKD Audit which investigates the identification and management of CKD in primary care in the UK. I am also involved in other analyses of routine electronic health records with regards to kidney disease, and in particular I am involved in a collaboration with Chiang Mai University in Thailand on this topic. I am the principal investigator of the MRC at Older Age study which contributes data to the Chronic Kidney disease Prognosis Consortium.
I have been collaborating with the UK Renal Registry since 2003 on various analyses related to the outcomes of patients on dialysis and currently I am the UK Kidney Association Director of Informatics Research.
I contribute to research at the Centre for Non-communicable Disease, in particular collaborating on a study that is investigating Mesoamerican nephropathy. I was involved in the ARK study which has validated the measurement of renal function using biomarkers in Sub-Saharan Africa, and another study that investigates the association of renal function markers in children with markers of growth and nutrition.
I was the analytic lead of the National CKD Audit which investigates the identification and management of CKD in primary care in the UK. I am also involved in other analyses of routine electronic health records with regards to kidney disease, and in particular I am involved in a collaboration with Chiang Mai University in Thailand on this topic. I am the principal investigator of the MRC at Older Age study which contributes data to the Chronic Kidney disease Prognosis Consortium.
I have been collaborating with the UK Renal Registry since 2003 on various analyses related to the outcomes of patients on dialysis and currently I am the UK Kidney Association Director of Informatics Research.
I contribute to research at the Centre for Non-communicable Disease, in particular collaborating on a study that is investigating Mesoamerican nephropathy. I was involved in the ARK study which has validated the measurement of renal function using biomarkers in Sub-Saharan Africa, and another study that investigates the association of renal function markers in children with markers of growth and nutrition.
Research Area
Epidemiology
Geriatrics
Life-course epidemiology
Clinical medicine
Disease and Health Conditions
Kidney disease
Cardiovascular diseases
Diabetes
Infectious diseases
Country
United Kingdom
Thailand
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Region
East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Selected Publications
Longitudinal leucocyte DNA methylation changes in Mesoamerican nephropathy.
2025
Environmental epigenetics
Inequity of access to the UK kidney transplant waiting list.
2024
Nephrology dialysis transplantation
