Prof Stephen Marks

Professor Stephen Marks, MD MSc MRCP DCH FRCPCH is a Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist and Clinical Lead for renal transplantation at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) since 2004. He leads the largest kidney transplantation unit in the United Kingdom for children and young people. He is Professor of Paediatric Nephrology and Transplantation at University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Director of the NIHR GOSH Clinical Research Facility.

He is passionate about providing the highest quality clinical care to all children with kidney diseases. He was previously named in The Times Top 100 Children’s Doctors in the United Kingdom.

He is active in research and is the theme lead for high intensity early phase clinical trials as well as PPIEP for NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre and chair of the British Association for Paediatric Nephrology and UK Renal Registry Audit and Informatics committee having previously been the chair of the National Health Service Blood and Transplant Paediatric Kidney Advisory Group.

His research continues to date in the fields of renal transplantation (including innovative drug trials concerning new anti-rejection therapies and assessment of children post-renal transplantation), systemic lupus erythematosus and vasculitis. He is on the editorial board for “British Journal of Renal Medicine” and is associate editor for “Transplantation”,“Pediatric Nephrology” and “Pediatric Transplantation”, which are the journals of The Transplantation Society, the International Pediatric Nephrology Association and the International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) respectively. Having been chair of the Publications and Communications Committee, he is now a Councillor of IPTA.