Our Staff

The UK Kidney Association and UK Renal Registry are supported by a team of more than 60 staff working across a wide range of specialist roles. Together, they develop and maintain national kidney data systems, analyse and report kidney data, support research, quality improvement and audit, deliver national conferences and educational programmes, support committees and professional communities, manage membership services, and keep the organisation running day to day.

This page introduces our senior management team and team leads who support the UK’s kidney community and deliver the programmes, services and national data that underpin our work.

Senior Management Team

Ron Cullen

Chief Executive Officer

Prof James Medcalf

Medical Director

Dr Retha Steenkamp

Head of Operations/Head of Statistics

Prof Dorothea Nitsch

Director of Informatics Research

Dr Maria Pippias

Deputy Director of Informatics Research

Stephanie Lock

Head of Finance and Business Development

Team Leads

Amy Robinson

Business Manager

Jennifer Barwell

Human Resources Manager

Dr Hillary Corwin

Education Project Manager

Dr Zoe Plummer

Senior Project Manager (Research & RaDaR)

Tom Gray

Information Governance and Data Protection Officer

Caitlin Sewell

Marketing and Communications Lead

Andrew Atterton

Systems Team Lead

George Swinnerton

Systems Technical Lead

Sarah Evans

Data Team Lead

Dr Shalini Santhakumaran

Principal Statistician

Dr Anna Casula

Principal Statistician

Kidney Quality Improvement Partnership