Liz Lightstone Imperial College London and Hammersmith HospitalUnited Kingdom

Professor Liz Lightstone completed medical training at Cambridge University and Kings College Hospital Medical School and her renal training at the Hammersmith Hospital. She is Prof of Renal Medicine at Imperial College London. Her main research interests are in improving outcomes for patients with lupus nephritis (LN) and pregnancies in women with kidney disease. She also advocates to reduce health inequities in renal medicine, to hear the patient voice in research and support women in nephrology. She is an elected member of the Women in Nephrology Executive Council. She is global co-chair of the SONG-GD steering committee, co-chairs the UK Kidney Research Consortium GN Clinical Study Group, established the Renal RaDar CKD and pregnancy rare disease group, is a member of the OMERACT 2022 SLE Working Group and the International Working Group on Glomerular Diseases and Pregnancy. She has contributed to guidelines on LN and Pregnancy and Kidney Disease, advice NICE in these areas and is on the Advisory Board of Nature Rev Nephrology. She is a Trustee of Kidney Research UK and serves on their Research Strategy and Nominations and Governance Committees. She has had major roles in education but is particularly proud of mentoring numerous trainees over many years and is a mentor on the 2021 ISN Emerging Leaders Programme. In the past year she has developed expertise in the management of severe COVID pneumonitis, co-chairs her hospitals COVID Treatment and Guideline Group, co-chaired a COVID Rapid Synthesis of Evidence group to guide clinical decisions, and coordinated the vaccination programme for kidney patients in West London.