Kolhe, Nitin

Title: Consultant Nephrologist & Clinical Lead. Renal IT Lead. Honorary Assistant Professor

Department: Renal

Location: University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Research Interests: Research interests include the epidemiology, health economics and long-term outcomes of acute kidney injury. Dr. Kolhe is a member of Acute Renal Injury Research in Derby (ARID) group and leading a prospective research in epidemiology of AKI studying the role of nephrology input in the outcome, especially in relation to mortality and development of chronic kidney disease over a period of ten years. Dr. Kolhe has also studied epidemiology of acute kidney injury in England of the last 15 years.

Teaching Interests: He is also Educational Ambassador for International Society of Nephrology and mentor for nephrology units in developing countries. Dr. Kolhe regularly teaches medical students, foundation and speciality trainees. Dr. Kolhe has also conducted teaching sessions for general practitioners. He also has taught on peritoneal dialysis access academy

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Biography

Dr. Kolhe received the M.B.B.S degree (1992) from Lokmanya Tilak Medical College, Mumbai, India and the M.D (1996) and D.M (1998) degrees from the King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India. He subsequently completed Nephrology training from Leeds and London and obtained his CCT (Certificate of Completion of Training) in internal medicine (2005) and Nephrology (2006).

He worked in the Hypertension unit at St. George’s Hospital and has extensive experience in managing resistant hypertension. Since 2006, Dr. Kolhe has been a Consultant in Renal Medicine at the Royal Derby Hospital. He was an expert adviser on the UK NCEPOD  ‘Adding Insult to Injury’  (AKI) study and was involved with the development of electronic recognition for AKI in Derby in 2010 and AKI-care bundle in 2014

He was the co-chair for the NHS England AKI Measurement work stream and is member of AKI-Clinical Study Group (CSG) and Peritoneal dialysis (CSG)