Dr. Richard Hull

Dr Richard Hull is a Consultant Kidney Specialist or Nephrologist at the Renal and Transplantation Unit, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He studied medicine at the University of Cambridge. He completed his specialist training in Renal Medicine within the South Thames Renal Programme. During this time he completed his PhD as a Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellow at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College.

Dr Hull has specialist interest of autoimmune renal disease as well as general nephrology including chronic kidney disease (CKD), diabetic nephropathy and hypertension. He manages cohorts of haemodialysis patients at St George’s Hospital and in Kingston. He is also the Speciality Group Lead for Renal Disorders for the NIHR South Thames Clinical Research Network.

Special interests include:
Acute kidney injury
Chronic kidney disease including early stage and prevention
Diabetic kidney disease
Diabetic nephropathy
Hypertension
Nephrological causes of non-visible haematuria
Microscopic haematuria and/or proteinuria
Polycystic kidney disease
Renovascular disease
Inherited renal diseases such as polycystic kidney disease
Autoimmune renal disease, Glomerulonephritis, Nephrotic syndrome (minimal changes disease, FSGS, membranous nephropathy), lupus nephritis and ANCA vasculitis, IgA Nephropathy

Dr Hull has undertook medicolegal work since 2017. Primarily under instruction from TMLEP as well as independent instructions from solicitors. Since 2017 he has completed over 200 reports from TMLEP ranging delivering both advisory non-disclosable reports and fully court compliant disclosable reports.  He is able to give opinions on the full range of renal medicine issues and the prognostic implications of a kidney injury.

His clinical research interests are focused on patients with autoimmune renal disease and he is an established investigator for clinical studies in IgA nephropathy, primary FSGS and lupus nephritis, renal anaemia and dialysis. As part of the London Kidney network he sits on the steering groups for a number of quality improvement workstreams including the Vascular Access, and the CKD prevention workstreams. In South West London, he is working with the local Renal Network in a collaboration with primary care, to improve the management of chronic kidney disease for all patients in the region and has led the authorship of an up-to-date CKD management guideline.

Member of British Medical Association (1996- ), Member of Royal College of Physicians of London (2005-2018 ), Fellow of Royal College of Physicians (2018-), Member of Renal Association (2013- ), Council member of Renal Association (2018-), Member of European Renal Association (2020-)