Prof Smeeta Sinha is Consultant Nephrologist at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK. She served as Clinical Director for Renal Services from 2014 to 2020, expanding kidney care across Greater Manchester. In 2021, she became Deputy Director for Research & Innovation at Northern Care Alliance and in 2022, NHS England appointed her National Clinical Director for Renal Medicine.
Her clinical interests include CKD, metabolic stone disease and glomerulonephritis. She leads the integrated glomerulonephritis service at Salford Royal, covering 1.3 million people. She is also Clinical Lead for the North West NHS England Renal Network and National Clinical Advisor for CKD, supporting the National Renal Service Transformation Programme.
Her research focuses on CKD-mineral bone disorder, vascular calcification, glomerulonephritis and rare renal diseases. She is an internationally recognised expert in calciphylaxis and supports trials from Phase 1 to 3 despite the challenges of rare disease research.
