Dr. Wheeler’s research interests are in chronic kidney disease complications, specifically those that increase cardiovascular disease burden and/or accelerate kidney failure progression. He is Honorary Consultant Nephrologist at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Professor of Kidney Medicine at University College London. He has participated in developing and running several large-scale clinical trials testing lipid-lowering regimens, calcimimetics, and sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors in patients with chronic kidney disease. He has developed clinical practice guidelines for several organizations.
Dr. Wheeler is a Research Partner with The George Institute for Global Health and has developed clinical practice guidelines for several organizations, most recently for Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), of which he is currently Co-Chair. He is Clinical Lead for Division 2 of the North Thames Clinical Research Network and heads a team of eight Clinical Trials Nurses/Practitioners at the Centre for Nephrology, Royal Free Hospital in London. He is Past President of the UK Renal Association, past chair of the UK Renal Registry and currently National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) National Specialty Lead for Nephrology.
