Kevin Harris, MD FRCP is Acting Medical Director and Honorary Consultant
Nephrologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. He is also a Reader
in the Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation at the University of
Leicester.
He was an undergraduate at Cambridge from 1975 and graduated in Medicine from
Kings College Hospital School of Medicine in 1981. After obtaining MRCP he
undertook a fellowship in Nephrology at Washington University St Louis, before
returning to the UK to take up an NKRF Senior Clinical Fellowship and Honorary
Lectureship appointment in Leicester. He has been a Consultant since 1993.
He is Clinical Vice President of the Renal Association.
His research interests include the pathophysiology of progressive renal failure. He has
also conducted trials examining therapeutic interventions to delay progressive renal
failure and improve cardiovascular outcome in renal patients. He is currently a coinvestigator on a major national project (funded by the Health Foundation) to look at
methods to improve the care and outcomes of patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.