Speaker Detail

Pauline Swift

UK

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Swift is a Consultant Nephrologist and Associate Medical Director for Research and Education at Epsom & St. Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust (ESTH).

She looks after patients with all stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and has a specialist interest in high blood pressure/hypertension. She runs clinics in general nephrology, hypertension and a multidisciplinary cardio-renal-metabolic clinic. She is a Fellow of the British and Irish Hypertension Society (BIHS) and Chair of the patients charity Blood Pressure UK (BPUK).

She is the Associate Medical Director for Education, Research and Innovation at Epsom & St. Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. Her own research interests include hypertension, kidney disease and cardiovascular risk and the delivery of clinical trials in hypertension, CKD and diabetic kidney disease.

She is a strong advocate for widening the scope of research into the community and it is her strong belief that equitable patient access to research and education underpins high quality health and care provision for all.