under development

Rare Disease Group

  • To develop the CAKUT RaDaR registry
  • To develop best practice guidelines in regards to the management of CAKUT
  • To provide better patient information and support
  • To develop international collaborations to enable the above aims
  • To support research, in collaboration with international groups, into basic science, disease progression models and clinical trials

ERIC (https://eric.org.uk) is a national charity dedicated to improving children’s bowel and bladder health.

Kidney Care UK offer peer support through their Young Adult Kidney Group (YAKG) for those aged between 18-30 years (https://www.kidneycareuk.org/get-support/young-adult-kidney-group-yakg/).

RDG Lead(s)
  • Melanie Chan, Adult Nephrologist and Clinical Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Patient representative(s)
  • Lucy Wray, Patient/parent representative
  • Hannah Thomson, Patient/parent representative
Other members
  • Jo Clothier, Paediatric Nephrologist, Evelina London Children’s Hospital
  • Lucy Plumb, Paediatric Nephrologist and Clinical Lecturer, Bristol University
  • Tanya Pankhurst, Adult Nephrologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
  • Liam McCarthy, Paediatric Urologist, Birmingham Children's Hospital
  • Ann Ratcliffe, Consultant Paediatrician, Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust
  • Zainab Arslan, Paediatric Nephrologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
  • Nav Johal, Paediatric Urologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
  • Kevin Cao, Clinical Research Fellow, Institute of Child Health, UCL
  • Shivaram Hegde, Paediatric Nephrologist, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
  • Selena Curkovic, Paediatric Urologist, Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales, Cardiff
  • Hannah Rhodes, Paediatric Urologist, Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales, Cardiff
  • Sherry Masoud, Clinical Research Fellow, Cardiff University
  • Manish Sinha, Paediatric Nephrologist, Evelina London Children’s Hospital
  • Massimo Garriboli, Paediatric Urologist, Evelina London Children’s Hospital
  • Yincent Tse, Paediatric Nephrologist, Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle
  • Milan Gopal, Paediatric Urologist, Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle
  • Caroline Platt, Paediatric Nephrologist, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
  • Karim Awad, Paediatric Urologist, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
  • Harriet Corbett, Paediatric Urologist, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool
  • Madhavi Kakade, Paediatric Urologist, Leicester Royal Infirmary
  • Ashwini Joshi, Paediatric Urologist, Barts Health NHS Trust
  • Joyce Popoola, Adult Nephrologist, St George’s University Hospital, London
  • Feilim Murphy , Paediatric Urologist, St George’s University Hospital, London
  • Alun Williams, Paediatric Urologist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Anna Radford, Paediatric Urologist, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Leeds Children’s Hospital

None stated