Nicholas R Forsyth

Biography

Prof.Nicholas is a consultant nephrologist at the University Hospitals of North Midlands and Professor of Nephrology and Dialysis Medicine in the Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine at Keele University. His principal research interests are in peritoneal dialysis and the evaluation of fluid status in advanced renal failure. Prof. Davies  is responsible for the Stoke PD Study, now the largest single centre study of long-term membrane function and clinical outcomes in peritoneal dialysis patients and was one of the lead investigators of the European Automated Peritoneal Dialysis Outcome Study (EAPOS). Other international collaborations have included studies evaluating the effects of polyglucose and low sodium solutions on fluid status in PD patients. He is currently developing new techniques in bedside body composition using breath analysis for deuterium abundance with the physicist Prof. David Smith FRS, for application in the haemodialysis unit, intensive care setting and in heart failure. This research is supported by Kidney Research UK, the Wellcome Trust and the Baxter Renal Discoveries Extra-mural grant programme. Prof. Davies is a member of the UK Renal Registry Dialysis group, the Renal Association standards committee and author of the UK peritoneal dialysis guidelines. He is also chair of the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis Research Committee and associate editor of Peritoneal Dialysis International.

Research Interest

Health Services Research