Dr Axelsson gained his Medical Degree in Stockholm in 2004 and his Philosophaie Doctor of Medicine in 2006 studying Fat mass, adipokines and clinical complications of chronic kidney disease. He also has an Msc in Economy and Business. Dr Axelsson is regularly invited to speak at Scientific Meetings, and is a regular peer reviewer for several journals. He is a Guest lecturer at more than five institutions including Corpus Christi College, Oxford and consults for several Companies and Consultancy firms. He is the member of the Swedish Medical Society, the Swedish, International and American Societies of Nephrology and Dr Axelsson is the author of more than 35 publications detailing original investigations, 20 review articles and two books as well as being the holder of one patent.

Role: Doctor

Organisation: Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Renal Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Edwina’s main clinical and educational interests are peritoneal dialysis, dialysis in the elderly and renal palliative care. She is the principal investigator for BOLDE (Broadening Options for Long-term Dialysis in the Elderly). Her other current research include a prospective study of membrane function and dialysate cytokines in patients on peritoneal dialysis; and developing screening tools for encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis. She has published extensively on peritoneal dialysis and dialysis in the elderly and is the author/editor of several books. Handbook of dialysis. Levy J, Morgan J, Brown EA. Publisher: Oxford University Press 2009 (3rd edition) Supportive Care for the Renal Patient. Ed., Chambers EJ, Brown EA, Germain M Oxford University Press, 2004 (2nd edition to be published 2009/2010) End of Life Care in Nephrology. Brown E, Chambers EJ, Eggeling C. Publisher Oxford University Press, 2007

Role: Consultant Nephrologist & Professor of Renal Medicine

Organisation: Consultant Nephrologist, West London Renal & Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London and Professor of Renal Medicine, Imperial College London.

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Dr Chesser has been in the field of Nephrology for 15 years and has set up the renal conservative management programme at Barts and the London. He also sat on the steering group of the Liverpool Care Pathway Renal Guidelines group and is a member of the Kidney End of Life Framework.

He combines renal medicine with an interest in medical education, working as an Associate Dean for undergraduate teaching at the London.

Role: Consultant Nephrologist, Barts and the London and lead clinician for renal medicine and urology.

Organisation: Barts and the London

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Nicky is an Associate Director of Specialised Commissioning with the South East Coast Specialised Commissioning Group (SCG) covering Kent, Surrey and Sussex. She has been involved in renal commissioning since 2000. Nicky started renal commissioning in East Kent, and over the years has expanded her role to cover the whole of the South East Coast patch, where she is now responsible for the strategic commissioning of renal services. Following the publication of the Renal NSF, she has worked closely with the renal units across South East Coast and South East London to develop a haemodialysis strategy which is now expanding to become an all encompassing renal strategy. In addition, Nicky has been developing local CKD networks across South East Coast to support the relationships between primary, secondary and tertiary care.

Role: Associate Director, South East Coast Specialised Commissioning Group

Organisation: South East Coast Specialised Commissioning Group (SCG)

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Sabina De Geest is a Professor of Nursing and Director of the Institute of Nursing Science of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is also a part time Professor of Nursing at the Center for Health Services and Nursing Research at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and adjunct Professor at the Schools of Nursing of the University of Pennsylvania (USA), Johns Hopkins University (USA), the College of Nursing of New York University (USA) and University of Missouri (USA). She received her Masters Degree and PhD in Medical Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven.

Sabina De Geest leads the Leuven Basel Adherence Research Group, an international interdisciplinary research group focusing on behavioral and psychosocial issues, with the ultimate goal of improving clinical outcomes in chronically ill patient populations (e.g., solid organ transplant, HIV-AIDS). Projects currently conducted in Belgium, Switzerland and the USA focus on the prevalence, determinants and consequences (both clinical and economic) of non-adherence to medication regimens, and on testing the efficacy of adherence enhancing interventions. Over time, the research group has expanded her focus to include assessment of the predictive value of pre-transplant psychosocial and behavioral factors regarding post-transplant outcomes, and the development and testing of instruments to assess specific psychosocial and behavioral factors.

Currently the PI of three research projects at the University of Basel (CH) and the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven (B). Sabina De Geest also chairs the Psychosocial Interest Group of the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study, a nation-wide cohort study started in May 2008, and heads the BRIGHT initiative, an international study exploring the relationship between broad system factors and medication adherence in transplant recipients. Her research has been published in leading interdisciplinary journals. She is co-editor of the Journal of Nursing Scholarship and serves on the editorial board of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) Journal, the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, BioMed Central – Nursing, the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Progress in Transplantation, Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing, and the International Journal of Health Policy.

She was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2006 and as a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 2004

Role: Professor of Nursing

Organisation: University of Basel, Switzerland

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After a broad general hospital training in clinical pharmacy, Andrea chose to specialise in drug use in renal disease and is currently Renal Pharmacist Team Manager at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust. She has worked within this fascinating field for over seventeen years. Her key interests are solid organ transplantation, the many drugs involved the patients, and seeking improvements for all three. During this time she has been a long-serving committee member and more recently Vice-Chair of UK Renal Pharmacy Group. She sat on the BRS council for 3 years (1999-2002), representing UK Renal Pharmacy Group and was a member of the 2001 National Renal Workforce Planning group. Currently she is involved in the next phase of the Renal Workforce Review. Andrea is also a member of a working party tasked with defining and implementing a National Renal Pharmacist Competencies Framework.

She was a member of the Expert External Reference Group for Department of Health – Renal National Service Framework (NSF) and was co-chair of an associated group which reviewed management of medicines for renal services. This work led to the DH publication Management of Medicines – a resource to support implementation of wider aspects of medicines management for the National Service Framework for Diabetes, Renal Services and Long-term conditions. She participated as an independent expert, representing her Trust, in the NICE appraisal of immunosuppressive therapy for renal transplantation.

Andrea is currently undertaking an MSc in Advanced Pharmacy Practice. She has authored several articles on drug use in transplantation and written practical guidance for pharmacists on how the reclassification of kidney disease impacts on dosing adjustment.

Role: Renal Pharmacist

Organisation: Churchill Hospital, Oxford

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Paul trained in Glasgow as a Nephrologist and Transplant Physician. Subsequently he worked in Stoke-on-Trent for 5 years as a Consultant Nephrologist. In 2002 he moved to his current post as a Consultant Nephrologist and transplant Physician in Oxford. He has developed a progressive interest in developing young adult and paediatric-adult transition services for patients with ESRD.

He currently runs joint clinics at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Evelina Childrens Hospital in London. In Oxford he runs a dedicated Young Adult Transplant clinic. He is also interested in long-term complications of transplantation and particularly neoplasia.

Role: Consultant Nephrologist

Organisation: Churchill Hospital, Oxford

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Consultant Nephrologist trained in Manchester Liverpool and North Wales. Main interests: 1) Vascular Access and 2) Diabetic Renal Disease - has organised and spoken at several National and International Symposia on these 2 interests in the last 10 years. Programme Chair BRS and representative on NICE Guidelines Development Group for Anaemia for CKD 2004.

Awarded BRS grant for the study of relationship of e GFR muscle mass 2006 and now studying the impact of exercise on dialysis patients in collaboration with Sports Science Department University of Bangor. Represented SAS on Renal Association Executive 2006 and currently Secretary for the Society of the DGH Nephrologists and Council member BRS.

Role: Secretary for the Society of the DGH Nephrologists and Council member BRS

Organisation: N/A

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Carried out his Medical and Surgical Internship in Johannesburg General Hospital, and then worked in Department of Medicine, Johannesburg General Hospital and University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is now Professor of Clinical Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York. And Attending Physician, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Beth Israel Medical Centre, Petrie Campus, New York, also Beth Israel Hospital North, New York. 1997-Present - Medical and Research Director, Renal Research Institute, LLC, New York. Professor Levin is also a Member of the National Kidney Foundation Medical Advisory Board.

He has served on many other Advisory Boards, has lectured World-wide and has been publishing extensively for over 40 years

Role: Professor of Clinical Medicine

Organisation: Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Medical Director of the Renal Research Institute, New York, USA

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Since 1997, Robert has been a consultant nephrologist at the Wessex Renal and Transplant Unit based in Portsmouth. He qualified from Westminster Medical School in 1984 and trained in nephrology at St Bartholomew’s, Kings College and Guy’s Hospitals. He was clinical director of his renal network between 2001 and 2008.

He is an elected member of the executive committee of the Renal Association and a member of the CKD forum

Role: Consultant Nephrologist

Organisation: Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth

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Fiona has been the chair of the Kidney Alliance since mid 2007 and also of a local Kidney Patients Association, the Lister Kidney Foundation, since 2005. Fiona is an English graduate with a career in IT as a training and project manager. In December 2006, after nearly 5 years on dialysis, she had a living transplant from her husband.

Kidney Alliance

The Kidney Alliance is an umbrella body representing the interests of patients, charities, industry and professional groups. The Kidney Alliance brings together both patients and professionals committed to renal medicine. Its goal is to promote high quality treatment for all patients with kidney failure on an equal and uniform base throughout the UK. The Kidney Alliance leads the World Kidney Day initiative in the UK, which focuses on prevention as well as treatment. Fiona uses her personal experience to increase awareness in the public arena and with policymakers. Members of the Kidney Alliance include the National Kidney Federation, Kidney Research UK, the British Kidney Patients Association, the British Transplant Society, the British Renal Society and the Renal Association.

www.kidneyalliance.org
www.worldkidneyday.co.uk

Role: Chair of The Kidney Alliance

Organisation: N/A

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Gained her Bachelor of Applied Science Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia and Is currently enrolled in MPhil/PhD Department of Investigative Sciences, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London (p/t).

Helen has published widely and presented at several Scientific Conferences.

She is currently undertaking the evaluation of a multidisciplinary weight management programme in obese patients with CKD

Role: Specialist Renal Dietitian

Organisation: King's College Hospital, London

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Mark is a consultant nephrologist and Clinical Director for Medicine in Ayrshire. He is a part-time Senior Medical Officer in the Scottish Government dealing with revalidation. After graduating in medicine and physiology from Glasgow University, he trained mainly in the West of Scotland. His clinical interests lie in the development of newer approaches to haemodialysis (such as frequent haemodialysis and haemodiafiltration), and in the epidemiology and management of CKD.

Previous experience in Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, home to the largest home haemodialysis programme in Scotland, and a travelling fellowship to Northwest Kidney Centers, Seattle, with Prof Chris Blagg developed his enthusiasm for home haemodialysis. He is Chair of the Renal Association Home Haemodialysis Working Group, a member of the Renal Association Executive Committee and one of the developers of the SIGN CKD guideline.

Role: Consultant Nephrologist

Organisation: Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock

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• Consultant Nephrologist, Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust July 1999 – June 2006
• Lecturer in Renal Medicine, Royal London Hospitals 1995 – 1999
• Renal Registrar, UCH rotation 1994 -1995
  
   

Dr McIntyre leads the University of Nottingham’s Renal Research Group. This relatively new, but rapidly maturing, research group has developed unique novel insights into the pathophysiology of the most common causes of death in patients with CKD, and has generated important changes in clinical practice, including work directly directed at dialysis related infection and CV tolerability of dialysis.

Since 2002 Dr McIntyre has supervised 13 higher degree students. The current team consists of nine research fellows, all registered for PhD study. Since 2002, they have consistently raised significant amounts of research-dedicated income from both commercial and competitive charitable sources, including NIHR (total around £1.7m), He is currently the PI on five investigator initiated UKCRN portfolio registered studies (current accrual 1300 patients).
The renal group alone has published more than 75 peer reviewed original articles/ invited reviews (50 in last three years alone).

Role: Consultant Nephrologist

Organisation: University of Nottingham

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Her teaching and training includes Health behaviour change & motivational interviewing workshops for renal teams and other health professionals working with long term conditions. Also her teaching on Leeds University Doctorrate in Clinical Psycology course includes Motivational Interviewing and adherence, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Health Anxiety and Death and Dying (Personal and Professional Development Workshop)

Dr Moran is a member of British Psychological Society, Renal Clinical Psychologists’ Special Interest Group  and also the British Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (BABCP)

She has published extensively and her areas of interest include:

• Psychological aspects of chronic illness and renal disease
• Behaviour change in the context of chronic illness
• End of life issues in renal
• Psychological aspects of transplantation
• Transition from paediatric to adult services
• Application of cognitive behaviour therapy, compassion focused therapy and motivational interviewing within physical health context
• Health professional-patient interaction in physical health settings
• Communication skills

Role: Senior Clinical Psychologist, Adult Renal Service

Organisation: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

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Donal has been a Consultant Renal Physician at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust since 1992. 

He was appointed the first National Director for Kidney Care in England in 2007. After gaining degrees in physiology and medicine from Manchester University, Donal trained in renal and general internal medicine in Leicester, Nottingham, Manchester and Edinburgh.  Research training was as a medical research council fellow at Hopital Necker in Paris.  Donal has published more than 80 peer review papers, book chapters and articles across the spectrum of nephrology, dialysis and transplantation.

Donal was the inaugural president of the British Renal Society and is a former treasurer and president elect of the Renal Association. Donal chaired the National Service Framework for renal services and leads the policy team and implementation strategy for kidney services in England.  

This has included aligning kidney policy with public health and vascular risk reduction programmes, early detection schemes, integrated care and development of a chronic disease management model of care for kidney disease.

Current research interests include epidemiology of chronic kidney disease, the biology of progressive kidney disease, anaemia management and models of service delivery to optimise outcomes.

Role: Consultant Renal Physician

Organisation: Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

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Matthew J. Oliver  is the Director of Chronic Dialysis and the Kidney Care (predialysis) Clinic at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada.

He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He received his medical degree from the University of Western Ontario, his nephrology fellowship from McMaster University, and a Masters of Health Sciences from Duke University.

Matthew's research interests include vascular access, home care assisted peritoneal dialysis, health services research, and renal information systems.

Role: Director of Chronic Dialysis

Organisation: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada

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After general medical training, Dr Russon completed higher specialist training in palliative medicine.  She was appointed as a Consultant in 2000 and currently works at Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, Yorkshire.
 
Following the publication of the NSF in 2005, interest increased in palliative care for renal patients and since September 2006 she has led a service at the low clearance clinic for “Conservative” renal patients.  The service currently has a caseload of approximately 60 patients.

She also has an interest in medical ethics and completed an MA in 1998.

Dr Russon is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine at Leeds University.

Role: Consultant

Organisation: Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, Yorkshire

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Dr Santhouse is a Consultant in Psychological Medicine at Guy’s Hospital, London, and at the Chronic Fatigue Research and Treatment Unit at The Maudsley Hospital, London.

He trained as an undergraduate in medicine at Cambridge University, before entering a general medical training scheme at The Royal London Hospital. After completing membership of the Royal College of Physicians, he trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital.

His clinical interests concern the interaction between physical and psychological health, including medically unexplained physical symptoms, and psychological reactions to health problems.

Unable to resist the lure of nephrology, a more recent area of interest has been in the psychological assessment of living kidney donors as part of the transplantation program at Guy’s Hospital.

Role: Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

Organisation: The York Clinic, London

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Trained in Medicine at Cambridge University and University College Hospital London.  He was a Renal Fellow at Washington University St. Louis with the research leading to a MD degree. He was appointed as consultant to King’s College Hospital in 1992 and to Guy’s and St. Thomas Hospital in 1995. He has been clinical Director of the Kidney Unit since 1999.

He founded the UK Renovascular Forum and the UK Clinical Directors Forum. From 2003 was been the Clinical Champion for the Kidney Disease Modernising Initiative funded by the Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Charity. He has been involved in important initiatives in kidney artery disease research and in the organisation of living donation in the UK.

Dr.John Scoble, MA MD FRCP,
Interim Associate Medical Director Managed Networks
Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Role: Consultant Nephrologist

Organisation: Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation

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With over 25 years experience in the nursing care of children with long-term/acute conditions and of leading/developing NHS children's services, a Master of Medical Science and a PhD based on her qualitative study of families learning to manage kidney conditions, Veronica now combines teaching nurses/health professionals, with multi-disciplinary research involving children with long-term conditions (in particular kidney conditions).
Using a range of research methods her studies investigate families' and professionals' views and experiences of shared care-giving, and help inform professionals' management interventions.

External recognition of her contribution to health-care includes national and international grants, awards and invitations to present her research; she recently received a second Florence Nightingale Foundation Travel Scholarship to visit Family Learning Centres in Chicago and Philadelphia Children's Hospitals in October 2009.

Veronica is a member of the British Renal Society Research Initiatives Committee and an Expert member of Salford & Trafford Research Ethics Committee. Also she is on the International Editorial Board, Nurse Education in Practice Journal/Elsevier Publishers.

Veronica has published extensively and has presented to world-wide audiences.

Role: Senior Lecturer in Children's Nursing

Organisation: University of Manchester.

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Maarten Taal  graduated from the University of Cape Town Medical School, South Africa, in 1987. After completing his post-graduate training in internal medicine and nephrology at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, he joined the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Physiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA under the directorship of Barry M. Brenner, MD. His research focused on mechanisms underlying the progression of chronic kidney disease and earned him a Doctor of Medicine degree. 

He subsequently moved to the United Kingdom where he was appointed a Consultant Renal Physician at Derby City General Hospital in 2002 and Special Lecturer at the University of Nottingham Medical School in 2006. 
His current research interests include Chronic Kidney Disease Progression, Diabetic Nephropathy, Renal Osteodystrophy and Cardiovascular Disease in CKD patients.

He is a member of the Centre for Integrated Systems in Medicine and Biology at the University of Nottingham.

He has served as co-author of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Chronic Kidney Disease on behalf of the Renal Association (UK), is a Section Editor for “Current Opinions in Nephrology and Hypertension” and has recently been appointed Lead Editor for “Brenner and Rector’s The Kidney” 9^th Edition”.

Role: Consultant Nephrologist

Organisation: Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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James has a dual career in information technology and as a medical doctor. He has been working as a doctor in renal units for the last 25 years. He is a programmer, specializing in mobile and internet-based clinical software for supporting clinical care.

He is currently trying to hold down several jobs including; Clinical lead for informatics at Leeds teaching hospitals, Staff grade doctor in the department of renal medicine at Leeds, IT manager for the renal and liver departments in Leeds and Medical director of Mediqal HI Limited, a provider of renal software.

Role: Medical Director, Mediqal Health Informatics Ltd & Staff Grade in Nephrology

Organisation: Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust

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She is currently undertaking a part-time Doctorate exploring self-management of CKD, and was awarded the Joint Kidney Research UK/British Renal Society Fellowship in 2004 and again in 2006. She is also the project co-ordinator of the ‘Quality Improvement in Chronic Kidney Disease’ study, funded by the Health Foundation.

She is Chair of the CKD Forum, a member of the BRS Council and Renal Information Exchange Group.
Nicola has edited two renal nursing books: Renal Nursing (2008)(Elsevier) and Advanced Renal Care (2005)(Blackwells).

Role: Renal Nurse and Senior Lecturer

Organisation: City University, London

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He is active in a broad range of diabetes clinics including paediatric transition clinics, young adult clinics, pre and ante natal clinics and diabetes kidney clinics. He has both hospital and community diabetes responsibilities.

Stephen’s main research interest is in diabetic complications particularly kidney disease. He teaches on a number of local and national diabetes courses.

He has sat on the NCCDG advising NICE on the treatment of anaemia in chronic kidney disease representing the Royal College of Physicians.

Role: Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology

Organisation: Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital

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Dr.Tomson qualified in medicine in 1981 and trained in nephrology as an SHO in Nottingham, Registrar in Newcastle on Tyne, and Lecturer in Leicester. He worked as a Consultant at St Barts in London in 1991 and moved to Bristol in 1993.

He has done research into oxalate retention in kidney disease, molecular mechanisms of aortic and renal hypertrophy, and vascular stiffening in chronic kidney disease. He looks after all types of kidney patients but also has a specialist interest in metabolic stone disease.

He set up the Renal Association Advanced Nephrology Course and ran this until 2004. He was secretary to the Renal Association Standards and Audit subcommittee during the development of the 3^rd edition of the Renal Association Standards document. He chaired the group that developed the UK CKD guidelines. In 2004-5 he spent a year as a Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, USA. On his return he became Chair of the UK Renal Registry and a Trustee of the Renal Association.

In the latter capacity he has been developing ideas for how to reduce carbon output and environmental pollution associated with care of kidney patients. He doesn’t own a car and cycles to work.

Role: Consultant Nephrologist

Organisation: Southmead Hospital, Bristol

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Michelle Webb qualified in medicine in Cambridge in 1988. SHO rotation at The Hammersmith, The Whittington and The London Chest 1989-1991; Registrar rotation Guy’s and Lewisham 1991-1993. INSERM funded research post at The Necker institute, Paris, studying T cell immunology in autoimmune disease 1993-95, resulting in a D.M. from Cambridge awarded 1998.

Senior registrar at Guy’s and St Thomas’ 1995-98

Appointed to a Consultant post at Kent and Canterbury Hospital 1999.

Now a full-time NHS clinician with an interest in transplantation. Since 2007 she has worked with the NHS Institute of Innovation and Improvement leading to a growing interest in clinical systems improvement.

Appointed Clinical Director for service improvement at East Kent Hospitals Trust 2007

Role: Consultant Nephrologist

Organisation: Kent & Canterbury Hospital

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Ian has been a GP Principal in Oldham since 1980 and since that time has been Associate Member of West Pennine Health Authority, Chairman of West Pennine Total Purchasing Pilot, Chairman of Oldham PCG and Professional Executive Committee Chairman of Oldham PCT.

Ian was a Macmillan GP Facilitator attached to the North West Regional Cancer Modernisation Team and was the clinical design adviser to the Macmillan Support Programme for Primary Care Cancer Leads.

He has trained in Boston Mass. at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement on the Collaborative Methodology of change management and has also undertaken training with WHO on the Global Burden of Disease methodology for health needs assessment.

He is currently Chairman of the local PBC Group (Commissioning for Oldham Group COG) and is the Renal NSF Clinical Lead for the PCT and is a member of the CKD forum of the BRS.

Role: GP Principal

Organisation: Oldham

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Professor Ellershaw is also Director of the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool and Clinical Director, Directorate of Palliative Care, Royal Liverpool University Hospitals 1984 MB BCh, Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff 1992 MA (Wales) 1994 Full accreditation in Palliative Medicine 1999 FRCP (UK) 2002 ILTM Since his appointment nine years ago in Liverpool Professor Ellershaw has contributed to a number of significant developments in Palliative Care. He established and runs the Specialist Palliative Care Services based at the Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool (Medical Director) and the Royal Liverpool University Hospitals Trust (Clinical Director). These are recognised as being at the leading edge of Palliative Care in the UK. He has also taken a lead role in the development of Palliative Care Services in the Merseyside and Cheshire Cancer Network.

As Chair of the Palliative Care Cancer Network Group he has established and co-ordinated Palliative Care Teaching at the University of Liverpool. All 4th Year Medical Students have a four week placement in a Palliative Care Centre in the region and 2 MSc modules in the Masters of Medical Sciences Programme have been established.

He plays a key role in the Medical Undergraduate curriculum as Chairman of the SSM Moderating and Co-ordinating Group since 1995. Professor Ellershaw was appointed National Clinical Lead Palliative Care - Specialist reporting to the National Cancer Director in May 2003. He has published extensively and since February 2005 he has held the title of Honorary Professor at the University of Liverpool Medical School, in the School of Clinical Science.

Role: Professor in Palliative Medicine

Organisation: University of Liverpool

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Dr Goldberg was an undergraduate at Bristol, graduating in 1984, received his early medical training in Bristol and Bath, then renal specialty training in London at St Marys, Charing Cross and Hammersmith hospitals. He spent some years undertaking transplant-related research during his training period, firstly investigating the perfusion of pig and then human kidneys with anti-CD45 monoclonal antibodies, and subsequently aspects of xenotransplant immunology.

He was appointed consultant nephrologist in Brighton in 2000, and became the Clinical Lead for the Sussex Kidney Unit in 2003. He was an elected member of the Renal Association Executive Committee and Clinical Affairs Board from 2004-8.

He has developed a keen interest and involvement with the development of guidelines, and implementation issues, relating to chronic kidney disease, with the following formal roles: Clinical Lead for a DH learning set to support the implementation of the renal NSF pt II; Nephrologist on the NICE CKD Guidelines Development Group (2006-8); co-author of the recently published joint Renal Association/British Association of Urological Surgeons guidelines for the investigation and management of non-visible haematuria; and Clinical Lead for the CKD 18 week pathway, which was published in 2008.

Role: Consultant in Renal Medicine

Organisation: Sussex Kidney Unit, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Keith’s interest in transplantation stems from a period spent in clinical and academic research in Nottingham between 2000 and 2002. His thesis concentrated on the role that immunosuppression plays in the development of chronic graft failure, with particular interest in the impact that ischaemia and calcineurin inhibitors can have on this process.

Experience in clinical transplantation was gained on the units in Nottingham and Birmingham with his SpR training being completed in 2008. In early 2009 he commenced consultant life at the Wessex Renal Transplant Unit in Portsmouth. He considers that transplantation remains the “gold standard” in the care of the patient with kidney failure and that we should therefore aim to offer it to as many people as possible. As a consequence his main clinical interests are centred around live donor kidney transplantation and potentially opening up transplantation to our increasingly obese population.

Role: Transplant Surgeon

Organisation: Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth

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Dr Griffith is a GP with a special interest in Cardiology and works at York Hospital. She is Primary Care Renal link in York and North Yorkshire and is particularly interested in preventing the development of CKD.

She is a member of the Renal Advisory Group at the Department of Health and is a member of the CKD forum of the BRS

Role: General Practitioner

Organisation: Dr Price & Partners, University Health Centre, York University

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Karen is a Consultant nurse at the Kent Kidney unit since 2003. She has been instrumental in setting up the palliative/supportive care service at Canterbury (2003) and the anaemia service (1997). She is currently developing links with local primary care trusts to improve integrated care for people with CKD. Her key interests are: anaemia, end of life care, early CKD, education and training of staff. She is a founder member and past president of ANSA, founder member of the CKD Forum, CKD consultant for EDTNA/ERCA, representing EDTNA/ERCA as a member of the European Kidney Health Alliance; a member of the NICE guideline development group for Anaemia management in CKD and has just completed a project developing guidance for the administration of intravenous iron therapy in the community.

Karen is well known for many her publications on anaemia and CKD and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Renal nursing.

Role: Consultant Nurse, Kent Kidney Care Unit

Organisation: Honorary Lecturer University of Kent, East Kent Hospitals University Foundation NHS Trust Kent & Canterbury Hospital Ethelbert Road Canterbury , Kent CT1 3NG

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