DR CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE
I am a consultant general physician and a nephrologist specialising in the treatment of patients with medical kidney problems. I see patients from all over the UK with a wide spectrum of medical disorders from abnormalities in the urine or biochemical abnormalities in the blood tests to complex multi-system illnesses like vasculitis. I treat patients with all stages of chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury and patients with kidney transplants. General medical conditions that I treat include hypertension, gout, obesity.
I studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School (now part of Imperial College, London) qualifying as a doctor in 2001. I worked at St Mary's Hospital, The Royal Brompton Hospital and Chelsea & Westminster Hospital before joining the prestigious North Thames Nephrology training rotation as a Specialist Registrar. I undertook research training at Imperial College, London (Based at The Hammersmith Hospital) on transplant immunology and I was awarded a doctorate in immunology in 2014. During my training I also gained a Master's degree in Law.
I was appointed as consultant nephrologist with a specialist interest in transplantation in East & North Hertfordshire in 2012, and in 2016 I was appointed an honorary consultant nephrologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) undertaking a weekly transplant clinic. In 2020 I left NHS work to concentrate on private practice and working in the molecular diagnostics industry to improve non-invasive diagnostic testing for people with kidney disease.
