Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician
MD FRCP MBChB
Midlands & Nationwide
Dr Adnan Sharif is a Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham.
He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2002 and underwent his medical and nephrology training in Cardiff and Birmingham respectively, including an observership post at Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, USA) before starting his Consultant post in 2011.
He retains an active research focus and has >170 peer-reviewed scientific publications and numerous book chapters. He is currently Chief Investigator on a number of prospective cohort and randomized clinical trials related to dialysis and kidney transplantation. His research projects include:
• Chief Investigator: Comparing Glycaemic Benefits of Active Versus Passive Lifestyle Intervention in Kidney Allograft Recipients (CAVIAR) - NCT02233491
• Chief Investigator: AGe-adapted benefits of Envarsus versus twice-daily tacrolimus ImmunosuppressioN druGs after kidney transplantation (AGEING) – a feasibility study - NCT03005236
• Chief Investigator: Frailty Intervention Trial in End-Stage Patients on Dialysis (FITNESS) - NCT03071107
• Chief Investigator: Epidemiology of Cancer After Solid Organ Transplantation (EpCOT) - NCT02991105
• Post-Transplantation Diabetes Mellitus
• Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic issues relating to organ donation and transplantation
• Antibody-incompatible transplantation
• Transplantation ethics
In addition to his clinical and research interests, he is the secretary of the non-Government Organization Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) which campaigns against illegal and unethical organ procurement around the globe. The group was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 & 2017 and received the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice in 2019.
He is on the Board of Trustees for Kidney Research UK, Give A Kidney and the Global Kidney Foundation, and is a long-term member of the National BAME Transplantation Alliance. Dr. Sharif has represented Transplant Nephrology on the British Transplantation Society Council for 2020-2023. Finally, he is an executive team member of the UK Organ Donation and Transplant Research Network.
Dr Sharif is an expert speaker for educational courses including the Advanced Nephrology course (UK Kidney Association), Transplant Live (European Society of Organ Transplantation) and the International Transplant Network (Turkish Transplant Foundation).
UK Kidney Association, Medical Protection Society, British Transplantation Society, European Renal Association, European Society for Organ Transplantation, Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh)