Pregnancy with CKD with Dr. Kate Wiles

Learning Objectives: To be able to counsel about the risks of adverse obstetric and renal outcomes in pregnancy in females with CKD To understand key aspects of care in pregnancy for females with CKD To understand the complexity of a diagnosis of superimposed pre-eclampsia  Dr. Kate Wiles is as a consultant nephrologist and obstetric physician at Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK. She is the lead physician for the North-East London Maternal Medicine Network. She is lead investigator for a multicentre prospective cohort study examining the implications of CKD for pregnancy and long-term female health. She is extensively published including original research and review articles on pre-pregnancy counselling, gestational acute kidney injury, superimposed pre-eclampsia in chronic kidney disease, kidney transplantation in pregnancy, and glomerular disease. She is lead of the UK expert consensus group on kidney disease in pregnancy and member of an international KDIGO group examining controversies in women’s health and kidney disease. She is the lead author of the first national guideline for the management of pregnancy in persons living with kidney disease. She has authored chapters on obstetric nephrology for the Oxford Textbook of Clinical Medicine, Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology, Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology and Chesley’s Hypertension. She is an author of the popular Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine and editor of Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine.