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
Quantifying and Adjusting for Confounding From Health-Seeking Behavior and Health Care Access in Observational Research.
2024
Open forum infectious diseases
Core Concepts in Pharmacoepidemiology: Quantitative Bias Analysis.
2024
Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
The spectrum of co-existing disease in children with established kidney failure using registry and linked electronic health record data.
2024
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)
Impact of heat stress on morbidity in Brazil: An economic evaluation based on cost-of-illness
2024
EuHEA Conference
Closing the policy gap in diabetes care for individuals with advanced CKD.
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.
2024
Kidney international reports
