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Date of next course: 14 -16 May 2025
Teaching and structure
You can attend one, two or three days.
Each day will involve face-to-face lectures and case discussions from international physiology and nephrology experts.
This is an interactive course and we encourage you to ask questions, bring your own clinical queries or cases and chat informally with our speakers during breaks.
CPD Accreditation
Previous courses have been awarded 15-18 external CPD points by the Royal College of Physicians UK and we anticipate the 2025 course to be awarded the same. The Royal College of Physicians provides accreditation as a supportive process of evaluating the quality of clinical services and promotes quality improvement through highlighting areas of best practice and areas for change, encouraging the continued development of the clinical service.
Certificate of Attendance
Your Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to you after the course.
Course fees and online booking
Category | 1 day | 2 days | 3 days |
Specialist registrar/trainee grade | £230 | £340 | £480 |
Consultants | £245 | £375 | £500 |
RFH/UCLH/UCL staff | £140 | £250 | £390 |
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Booking is through UCL Online Store with a debit or credit card. Please see their terms and conditions here.
Book your place here
Contact us
Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any queries about the course.
Kate Henderson, UCL Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF.
Email: Med.Cfnevents@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 8016 8264
Course Directors
Rhys Evans is a Consultant Nephrologist and Associate Professor in the UCL Department of Renal Medicine. He was an undergraduate at Cambridge University, undertook general nephrology training in London, and he subsequently completed a Fellowship in Transplantation at the University of British Columbia. He returned to the Royal Free in November 2021 where he works clinically as a transplant nephrologist and is deputy lead of the Centre for Transplantation. Rhys undertook his PhD at UCL under the supervision of Prof Alan Salama and Prof Stephen Walsh. His research is focused on the impact of the extracellular ionic environment on immune cell activation with a particular focus on changes in immunity that occur in states of altered sodium balance. He recently provided the first report of immunodeficiency in a patient with Salt-Losing Tubulopathy. He has just received funding to explore the effect of sodium on the alloimmune response.
Matthew Bailey is Professor of Renal Physiology in the British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiovascular Science at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Biology. He has a PhD from The University of London, received postdoctoral training at UCL and CNRS in Saclay, France and held Wellcome Trust Fellowships at Yale University and the University of Edinburgh. Matt's team examines the physiology of salt balance and is funded by the British Heart Foundation, Kidney Research UK, Diabetes UK and the Medical Research Council.
Dr. Keith Siew is a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London, where he co-leads an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, scientists and engineers investigating the pathophysiology and aetiology of rare electrolyte and blood pressure disorders. He previously completed a PhD in Medicine at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Dundee University investigating monogenic syndromes impacting the distal nephron, and trained as an experimental physiologist-pharmacologist (BSc [Hons]) and advanced microscopist (MSc) at University College Dublin. He has published several papers on the mechanisms underpinning regulation of the blood pressure and renal tubular function in monogenic syndromes, arterial stiffness biomarkers and identified strategies to develop new classes of therapies that could be used to treat resistant cohorts. His current research focuses on developing novel techniques to investigate how the kidneys control our body’s electrolyte-water balance and blood pressure in both health and disease. These techniques have employed imaging of optically cleared renal biopsies for 3D histopathology, isolation and characterisation of urine-derived kidney tubule cells for rare disease patients for organ-on-a-chip systems, and the use of environmental extremes such to study renal physiology (e.g. humans and mice that have been exposed to real spaceflight and/or galactic cosmic radiation).
Disclaimer
All best endeavours will be made to present the programme as advertised. However, the Course Administration reserves the right to alter or cancel, without prior notice, any arrangements, timetables, plans or other items relating directly or indirectly to the Course for any cause beyond its reasonable control. Occasionally, due to unforeseen circumstances, a course may have to be cancelled. In this situation, we will endeavour to give as much notice as possible and you will receive a full refund for the course cost. We cannot, however, refund other incurred expenses, for example pre-purchased travel or accommodation.