Keep It Renal Episode 16 Rona Smith

In this episode I speak with Miranda Scanlon and Kola Ponnle from Kidney Research UK's Lay Advisory Group about How scientists can interact with patients and use these experiences to write better grants.

Here I interview Dr Courtney Lightfoot from the Leicester Kidney Lifestyle Team about her work on My Kidneys and Me. Her research interests include the development of complex interventions, patient activation, and self-management, patient experiences of living with a chronic condition including symptom burden and quality of life.

This is an interview with Jack Goodland, Alex Hamilton and Ali Jenkins discussing the transition from paediatrics to adult kidney care.

Here I interview Jeremy Hughes who is the Chair of Trustees for Kidney Research UK as well as a nephrologist and a researcher. I talk to him about his experience of the past year and share his optimism for the future.

Here I chat to Jeremy Hughes who is the chair of trustees for Kidney Research UK, a nephrologist and a researcher. We talk about the challenges of the past year and how Jeremy is optimistic for the future.

Here I interview Kidney Research UK's Chief Executive about how the charity has fared during the pandemic. Sandra gives a really good account of the challenges of running a charity. Enjoy.

I interview Dr Rona Smith about the PROTECT-V Trial and hear about the whirlwind year they've had putting it together!

In this episode I talk to my boss, Moin Saleem and Wendy Cook from the Nephrotic Syndrome Trust about Nephrotic Syndrome and promising new start up company Pure Spring looking at gene therapy.

Thank you so much to everyone who got in touch about having a chat with me about Altruistic Kidney Donation. Here I speak to John Cassell and Colin Alexander Brown about their experiences.

Caroline and I speak to Sharlene Greenwood and hear all about a new app helping kidney patients to access tailored exercise programmes.