Keeping patients informed and involved in appointment and care decisions: Dr Rob Lewis
Strategies to Optimise Remote Kidney Care
Dr Rob Lewis
Rob graduated in 1984 from Westminster Medical School, now part of Imperial College London. He trained as a nephrologist in London, working at St Bartholomew’s, Kings College and Guy’s Hospitals. He completed his higher medical degree (MD) at Guy’s Hospital in 1996 and has been a consultant nephrologist at the Wessex Kidney Centre since 1997. Rob was Director of the service between 2001 and 2008 and took on the role again in 2016.
His particular area of interest is early chronic kidney disease (CKD). He was founder member of the national CKD Strategy Group and helped develop the 2014 NICE guidelines for management of CKD in the UK.
