Management of Kidney Diseases (PDF)

collaborating with renal units in India, Ghana and Jamaica. He also serves as chair of Training and Education Committee and member of International Committee of the UK Kidney Association.



Professor Vivekanand Jha is the Executive Director, The George Institute for Global Health, India, and Chair of Global Kidney Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. He is also the President of the International Society of Nephrology. Prior to joining The George Institute, he was Professor of Nephrology and Head, Department of Translational Regenerative Medicine and Officer-In-Charge, Medical Education and Research Cell at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India. Vivek serves on the international advisory boards of several organisations including membership of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation, and the executive committee of the International Society of Nephrology. He is a councillor of the International Society of Nephrology, a member of the education committees for the International Transplantation Society and International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis. He is a physician with a specialisation in the area of kidney diseases and he focuses on emerging public health threats globally and in India. He is particularly interested in using multi-disciplinary approaches and innovation to address the major challenge posed to humanity by non-communicable diseases. Dr Nicholas Annear qualified from St George's, University in 2003, and was one of the first Academic Clinical Fellows appointed in the country in Nephrology & General Medicine at Imperial College in 2006. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship in 2010, and undertook research into the Cellular response to hypoxia at UCL. He has presented his work at various national and international meetings, and was awarded his PhD in November 2013. He was subsequently appointed as Clinical Lecturer in Nephrology at Kings College London. He has adapted his considerable teaching and research skills toward developing the Acute Kidney Injury service at St George's and setting up a new clinic for TSC patients to help treat those with renal complications of this condition. Dr Annear has also adapted his teaching skills into his role as an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Medical and Biomedical Teaching at SGUL, where he both Leads the Undergraduate placements for Acute Medicine, and has been appointed Lead for Clinical Medical Placements, Local and International.