Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 3 474 0999 extn 58538
- rob.walker@otago.ac.nz
University Links
- Position
- Professor, Mary Glendining Chair in Medicine
- Department
- Department of Medicine (Dunedin)
- Qualifications
- MB ChB MD(Otago) FRACP FASN FAHA
- Research summary
- Kidney health and disease
- Memberships
- Member International Society of Nephrology Nexus and Forefronts programme committee.
- KDIGO lipid guidelines committee, CARI guidelines committee - Cardiovascular risk factors in renal disease.
- Member CARI guidelines committee - Dialysis adequacy.
- Honorary Secretary and Member Executive Council ASPN, with a strong interest in developing the links between Australia and New Zealand with South East Asia and the Pacific.
- Clinical
- Nephrology
- Cardiovascular outcomes in kidney disease
- Dialysis outcomes in the elderly
- Acute kidney injury
- Diabetic kidney disease
Research
Clinical research including cardiovascular risk factors associated with CKD; hypertension, obesity and inflammation; drug induced nephrotoxicity; drugs, exercise and kidney function; acute kidney injury; dialysis outcomes in the elderly.
Basic science research focused upon mechanisms of chronic interstitial fibrosis in a chronic-lithium animal model.
Funders include Health Research Council NZ, Lotteries Health, Kidney Health NZ, Otago Medical Research Foundation.
Over 180 publications.
Additional details
Director University of Otago Research Theme: The Kidney in Health and Disease.