Dr Rhys Evans

About Dr Rhys Evans

Dr Rhys Evans is an experienced Consultant Nephrologist with a specialism in the diagnosis and treatment of renal issues. His private practice is at St John & St Elizbeth Hospital and in the NHS currently works as a Clinical Academic Consultant in Nephrology (Associate Professor) at the UCL Centre for Kidney and Bladder Health, Royal Free NHS Hospital.

He studied medicine at Cambridge University and University College London Medical School, qualifying in 2007. He undertook general medical training in London and Melbourne, Australia prior to undergoing specialty training in Nephrology within the North Thames training scheme. He was awarded a fellowship to undertake sub-speciality training in transplantation at the University of British Columbia, Canada, which he completed in 2021. He is the Lead for courses and collaborations within the Education Committee of the European Society for Organ Transplantation.

Dr Evans is the Clinical Lead for kidney transplantation at UCL and he is lead of the Tubulpathy Rare Disease Group within the UK Registry of Rare Kidney Diseases (RaDaR). His transplant work includes donor and recipient assessment as well as all aspects of post-transplant care. He is Principal Investigator on a number of clinical trials, including investigations of cardiac screening in transplant recipients, and new treatments that may improve delayed graft function and treat chronic rejection. He has a friendly approach to medicine and strongly believes in shared decision-making with patients and their families.

Dr Evans is an academic clinician with a diverse research portfolio. He was awarded a PhD from UCL for translational work investigating the impact of salt on the immune system during which he provided the first description of immunodeficiency in patients with inherited salt-losing tubulopathies. He continues to investigate changes in immunity in patients with tubular kidney disease and hypertension. He was awarded the UCL Oliver Wrong Prize for an outstanding contribution to Renal Physiology research in 2021. He leads a research group which investigates precision medicine approaches to transplant care. He is funded by Kidney Research UK to investigate the impact of salt on immune responses in kidney transplant recipients, as well as investigating the use of novel biomarkers to assess transplant function, AI driven graft outcome prediction systems, and advanced molecular techniques for the analysis of transplant biopsies.

His other focus is aimed at improving the care of patients with kidney disease in low-resource settings, which he has done in a number of different settings worldwide. He has previously worked as a clinical lecturer at the University of Malawi and has published widely on the epidemiology of kidney disease in Africa and novel tools to detect it. He currently leads a partnership to develop kidney transplantation in Ghana.

Conditions Dr Evans treats at St John & St Elizbeth Hospital

• Acute and chronic rejection (kidney transplantation)
• Acute kidney injury
• Chronic kidney disease
• Diabetic kidney disease
• Donor Assessment for kidney transplantation
• Recipient Assessment for kidney transplantation
• Electrolyte abnormalities (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, phosphate, acid-base disturbance)
• End-stage kidney disease
• General nephrology
• Glomerulonephritis
• Haemodialysis for kidney failure
• Hypertension / Hypotension
• Infections and Malignancy post-transplant
• Nephrotic syndrome
• Peritoneal Dialysis
• Tubular kidney disease
• Transplantation, including post-transplant care and recurrent disease post-transplant