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Prof Dorothea Nitsch

Prof of Clinical Epide & HC Nephrologist

United Kingdom

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.

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.
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

Quantifying and Adjusting for Confounding From Health-Seeking Behavior and Health Care Access in Observational Research.
Graham, S; Walker, JL; Andrews, N; Hulme, WJ; NITSCH, D; PARKER, EP K; McDonald, HI;
2024
Open forum infectious diseases
Core Concepts in Pharmacoepidemiology: Quantitative Bias Analysis.
Brown, JP; Hunnicutt, JN; ALI, MS; BHASKARAN, K; Cole, A; LANGAN, SM; NITSCH, D; RENTSCH, CT; Galwey, NW; Wing, K; Douglas, IJ;
2024
Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
Identifying markers of health-seeking behaviour and healthcare access in UK electronic health records.
GRAHAM, S; Walker, JL; Andrews, N; NITSCH, D; PARKER, EP K; McDonald, H;
2024
BMJ open
Individual and neighborhood-level social and deprivation factors impact kidney health in the GLOMMS-CORE study.
Sawhney, S; Atherton, I; Blakeman, T; Black, C; Cowan, E; Croucher, C; Fraser, SD S; Hughes, A; Nath, M; NITSCH, D; Scholes-Robertson, N; Diaz, MR;
2024
Kidney international
The spectrum of co-existing disease in children with established kidney failure using registry and linked electronic health record data.
Plumb, L; Steenkamp, R; Hamilton, AJ; Maxwell, H; Inward, CD; Marks, SD; NITSCH, D;
2024
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)
Impact of heat stress on morbidity in Brazil: An economic evaluation based on cost-of-illness
Chen, H; NITSCH, D; Silva, I; HAJAT, S; Xander Russo, L; Mi, Z; BORGHI, J; Nunes Silva, E; FOSS, AM;
2024
EuHEA Conference
Changes in the epidemiology of kidney replacement therapy across Europe in 2020-the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: an ERA Registry study.
Kramer, A; Jager, KJ; Chesnaye, NC; Kerschbaum, J; Hommel, K; Comas Farnés, J; Trujillo Alemán, S; Santamaria, R; Finne, P; Hemmelder, MH; Åsberg, A; NITSCH, D; Ambühl, P; Sørensen, SS; Sánchez-Alvarez, JE; Segelmark, M; Resic, H; Ots-Rosenberg, M; Radunovic, D; Palsson, R; Santiuste de Pablos, C; Rodríguez Arévalo, OL; Legeai, C; Lausevic, M; Bakkaloglu, SA; ... Stel, VS.
2024
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association
Closing the policy gap in diabetes care for individuals with advanced CKD.
Habte-Asres, HH; Rosenthal, M; NITSCH, D; Wheeler, DC;
2024
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association
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