Dr. Constantina (Tina) Chrysochou

Qualifications

MBChB	(Pretoria, South Africa)	2001
MRCP	(London, UK)	2005
PhD	(The University of Manchester, UK)	2011
FRCP	(London, UK)	2020

Biography

Dr Tina Chrysochou is a consultant nephrologist at Salford Royal Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. She is the immediate past President of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Nephrology Section Council. She completed her PhD in 2011 entitled : ‘Prediction of Renal Functional Outcome after Revascularization with Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Atheromatous Renovascular Disease (ARVD)’, and has ongoing clinical and research interests in Fibromuscular Dysplasia (FMD) and ARVD. She is the UK lead for the Renal Rare Diseases register (RADAR) specialist interest group on FMD.

Dr Chrysochou set up the Health Services Journal award-winning renal Young Adults Clinic at Salford Royal Hospital, and is the sub-group lead on Transition for the Renal Services Transformation Programme. The Young Adult Clinic was also used as a model of innovative, patient-centred care in the EGA Leadership Masters programme. Dr Chrysochou is the Northern Care Alliance Lead for Freedom to Speak up Team who were finalists in the 2020 Health Services Journal FTSU Organisation of the year.

Publications

1. 52 manuscripts in peer-reviewed PubMed cited journals (Sept 2022).
2. 6 book chapters including Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology, Oxford Desk Reference Nephrology and Vascular Surgery: Cases, Questions and Commentaries.