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Liz Lightstone is Professor of Renal Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, and an Honorary Consultant Physician at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Renal and Transplant Centre in Hammersmith Hospital.

Prof. Lightstone is considered a global authority on the management of lupus nephritis and is widely recognised for her expertise in inflammatory kidney disease more generally, including nephrotic syndrome and all forms of glomerular disease as well as the prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease particularly in patients from Black and other minority communities.

She is also a leading authority in pre-pregnancy counselling and antenatal care for women with kidney disease and in her NHS practice has cared for over 1000 women going through pregnancy with kidney disease.
Through her research, Prof Lightstone has pioneered steroid minimizing regimens for lupus nephritis, influenced global lupus nephritis trials design, and developed novel approaches to assess adherence to medications. Her research on pregnancy in women with kidney disease, has led to an updated evidence base to advise women on the impact of CKD on kidney and fetal outcomes, defined normal kidney function in pregnancy, and identified biomarkers of preeclampsia in women with CKD.

Prof. Lightstone is an active member of numerous committees and advisory boards, & was the founding national coordinator UK Renal Disease and Pregnancy Rare Disease Group.
She has contributed to guidelines on lupus and lupus nephritis, pregnancy and kidney disease, & advised NICE in these areas.
During the COVID19 pandemic she developed additional expertise in the management of severe COVID in patients with and without kidney disease - co-chairing the Trust's COVID Treatment and Guideline group and is part of an exceptionally productive research programme evaluating immune responses to COVID infections and after COVID vaccination in immunocompromised patients.

Areas of interest

Professor Lightstone specialises in the following areas:

Renal medicine
Obstetric renal medicine
Lupus nephritis
Glomerulonephritis
Autoimmune kidney disease
CKD (chronic kidney disease)
Hypertension
Pregnancy planning and oversight for women with kidney disease

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