My Story

Thanks for visiting this page. I completed the couch to 5K during lockdown and here I am aiming for the biggest personal challenge of my life!

I'm a kidney consultant and researcher in Leicester so not only do I have the privilege of spending time and being part of the journey of people with kidney disease, I know first hand just how important the work of Kidney Research UK really is. If you have a moment, please have a look at this video I made to highlight the problem and what they do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBWxKkBnat4

On top of this, the charity grows professionals to become future leaders in health care delivery and research. I am so proud to run the London Marathon for them and to be able to give back, please donate whatever you can and thank you for helping to make a change for the millions of people with kidney disease in the UK.

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As the leading kidney research charity in the UK, nothing is going to stop us in our urgent mission to end kidney disease. We’re here to be heard, to make a difference, to change the future. This is a disease that ruins and destroys lives. It must be stopped. 

Over the past 60 years, our research has made an impact. But kidney failure is rising, as are the factors contributing to it, such as diabetes and obesity.

Today, we are more essential than ever.


In the UK there are approximately 3.25 million people living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 3-5 and a further 3.9 million people are estimated to have CKD stages 1-2, together reaching a total of 7.2 million people living with kidney disease in the UK, that’s more than 10% of the entire population. Treatments can be gruelling and currently there is no cure. Only research will end this and nobody can do it but us, by offering kidney patients and their families hope for the future. We’re taking it on. But we can’t do it without you. Kidney disease ends here.