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Date: 22 February 2025
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Meet the team and how to contact us
The renal young adult service team aim to provide high quality, co-ordinated health-care that is patient-centred, age and developmentally appropriate and culturally competent, flexible, responsive and comprehensive with respect to all persons involved.
The team is here it ensure that each patient receives the best in care and the health/transition journey is as stress free as is feasibly possible, thus ensuring the young adult develops a sense of control and independence throughout their health journey.
Amanda Smith, Renal Transplant Co-ordinator/Young Adult Support Nurse
As Renal Transplant Co-ordinator and Young Adult Support Nurse, Amanda's role includes providing support, patient education and telephone advice.
Amanda has an interest in transition services, and the young adult renal service aims to meet young people at their first adolescent clinic to begin building a trusting relationship with them and their parents/carer.
Tel: 07867 180 386
Aimee Williams, Advanced Practitioner in Renal Transplantation
Aimee is a Renal Transplant Nurse Specialist with an interest in the Young Adult Service.
Aimee’s role includes offering support, patient education and advice to those young adults who have received a kidney transplant. This may be in a face to face consultation or as a telephone/video consultation.
Tel: 07500 986 217
Mark Thompson, Youth Worker
Mark’s role is to support young people as they move from paediatric care into adult services. Youth work takes a holistic approach with young people, offering care and support in a hospital setting as well as helping young people in their everyday surroundings.
Tel: 07920 807 586
Dr Tanya Pankhurst, Consultant Nephrologist
Dr Pankhurst is a Consultant Kidney Specialist, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, Lead for the Young Adult Renal Service and Deputy Director of Digital Healthcare at the Trust.
Her research interests include renal transplantation, young adults with renal diseases, digital healthcare, digital healthcare datasets, population health and the design of electronic health records.
Dr Pankhurst also has an interest in young adult health and holistic care. In collaboration with Birmingham Children's Hospital and colleagues in adult settings, she is interested in how to provide care during the transition between child and adult services and how to meet the needs of young adults in adult services.
Dr Graham Lipkin, Consultant Nephrologist
Consultant Kidney Specialist, Honorary Senior Lecturer UoB. Lead for Rare Diseases & Centre for Rare Diseases at QEHB. National Lead for Cystinosis. Member of Rare Disease Working Groups: Gittleman, Primary Hyperoxaluria, Cysinuria, Pregnancy in CKD. Member of Department of Health Rare Disease Stakeholder Group. Vice President of Renal Association, Lead for Live Donor Renal Transplantation at QEHB NHSFT.
Research Interests: Metabolic Kidney Disease, Renal Transplantation, Pregnancy in Women with CKD, Combined kidney and Liver Transplantation.
Positions: President of QE Kidney Patients Association, Chairman of Metchley park Medical Society Charity. Trustee of Transplant Links Community Charity.
