Honorary Consultant Nephrologist, Professor of Kidney Medicine, Royal Free, London
Professor Wheeler's current positions include Professor of Kidney Medicine at University College London, Honorary Consultant Nephrologist at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Professorial Fellow of the George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia.
He is a Clinician Scientist with an interest in the complications of chronic kidney disease. He has contributed to the development and running of several large-scale clinical trials involving patients with chronic kidney disease including SHARP, EVOLVE and CREDENCE. He is currently co-chief investigator of the DAPA-CKD study. Locally, he heads the clinical research team in the Department of Renal Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital. He has been involved in Clinical Practice Guideline Development for several organisations, most recently for Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), of which he is past co-chair. He has served terms as President of the UK Renal Association and Associate Editor of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (NDT).