Professor Philip Kalra graduated from Cambridge University and is Consultant Nephrologist at Salford Royal Hospital, Professor at the University of Manchester. He is lead of the renal research team at Salford and has major research focus on renovascular disease and cardiovascular disease in CKD. He is chair of the National Renal Disorders speciality group of the NIHR CRN clinical trials network, and has also been Academic Vice President of the UK Renal Association since September 2016, now chairing the UK Kidney Research Consortium (UKKRC). He has been involved in development of several large UK clinical trials in nephrology and cardiology and has played a role in amalgamating Cardio-Renal education and research within the UK.
