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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

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
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
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
Description and Cross-Sectional Analyses of 25,880 Adults and Children in the UK National Registry of Rare Kidney Diseases Cohort.
Wong, K; Pitcher, D; Braddon, F; Downward, L; Steenkamp, R; Masoud, S; Annear, N; Barratt, J; Bingham, C; Coward, RJ; Chrysochou, T; Game, D; Griffin, S; Hall, M; Johnson, S; Kanigicherla, D; Karet Frankl, F; Kavanagh, D; Kerecuk, L; Maher, ER; Moochhala, S; Pinney, J; Sayer, JA; Simms, R; Sinha, S; ... RaDaR consortium,
2024
Kidney international reports
Comparative effectiveness of second line oral antidiabetic treatments among people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: emulation of a target trial using routinely collected health data.
BIDULKA, P; Lugo-Palacios, DG; CARROLL, O; O'NEILL, S; Adler, AI; Basu, A; Silverwood, RJ; BARTLETT, JW; NITSCH, D; Charlton, P; BRIGGS, AH; SMEETH, L; DOUGLAS, IJ; Khunti, K; GRIEVE, R;
2024
BMJ
Animal models to study cognitive impairment of chronic kidney disease.
Imenez Silva, PH; Pepin, M; Figurek, A; Gutiérrez-Jiménez, E; Bobot, M; Iervolino, A; Mattace-Raso, F; Hoorn, EJ; Bailey, MA; Hénaut, L; Nielsen, R; Frische, S; Trepiccione, F; Hafez, G; Altunkaynak, HO; Endlich, N; Unwin, R; Capasso, G; Pesic, V; Massy, Z; Wagner, CA; CONNECT Consortium,;
2024
American journal of physiology. Renal physiology
Cognitive decline related to chronic kidney disease as an exclusion factor from kidney transplantation: results from an international survey.
Farisco, M; Blumblyte, IA; Franssen, C; NITSCH, D; Zecchino, I; Capasso, G; Hafez, G; COST CONNECT Action Collaborators ,;
2024
Clinical kidney journal
Capacity for the management of kidney failure in the International Society of Nephrology Western Europe region: report from the 2023 ISN Global Kidney Health Atlas (ISN-GKHA)
Pippias, M; Alfano, G; Kelly, DM; Soler, MJ; De Chiara, L; Olanrewaju, TO; Arruebo, S; Bello, AK; Caskey, FJ; Damster, S; Donner, J-A; Jha, V; Johnson, DW; Levin, A; Malik, C; Nangaku, M; Okpechi, IG; Tonelli, M; Ye, F; Coppo, R; Lightstone, L; Regional Board and ISN-GKHA Team Authors,;
2024
Kidney international supplements
Quantifying possible bias in clinical and epidemiological studies with quantitative bias analysis: common approaches and limitations.
BROWN, JP; Hunnicutt, JN; ALI, MS; BHASKARAN, K; Cole, A; LANGAN, SM; NITSCH, D; RENTSCH, CT; Galwey, NW; WING, K; DOUGLAS, IJ;
2024
BMJ
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