About Professor Liz Lightstone
Consultant Nephrologist
Digestive Health
Sub-specialties: Renal Medicine, Obstetric Renal, Lupus Nephritis, Glomerulonephritis, Autoimmune Kidney Disease, Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypertension, Nephrology, Kidney Disease.
Professor Liz Lightstone is a Consultant Nephrologist spanning both our Digestive Health and Endocrinology centres. She specialises in kidney and transplant services, maternal medicine, and pre-pregnancy counselling.
Professor Liz Lightstone is a Consultant Nephrologist spanning both our Digestive Health and Endocrinology centres. She specialises in kidney and transplant services, maternal medicine, and pre-pregnancy counselling.
Areas of Expertise
Professor Lightstone specialises in the following areas:
- Renal medicine
- Obstetric renal medicine
- Lupus nephritis
- Glomerulonephritis
- Autoimmune kidney disease
- CKD (chronic kidney disease)
- Hypertension
- Pregnancy planning and oversight for women with kidney disease
About Professor Liz Lightstone
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Additional Information
- 1983 MBBS (Hons) Proxime Accessit (runner up to the Gold Medallist), University of London
- 1983 Senior Scholar Kings College Hospital Medical School
- 1988-1991 MRC Clinical Training Fellow, ICRF Tumour Immunology Unit, UCL PhD in Immunology awarded by University College London 1993
- 1991-1995 MRC Clinician Scientist Training Fellow, Dept of Immunology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School
- 2021: Peter Schur Visiting Professor, Brigham and Women’s Rheumatology Grand Rounds April 2021
- Invited speaker and session chair at International Society of Nephrology World Congress of Nephrology annually since 2019
- Invited speaker and session chair at American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week annually since 2016 (both at main meeting and early programme on glomerular disease)
- 2016: Chandos Lecture at UK Kidney Week
Research Highlights
- Condon MB, Ashby D, Pepper RJ, Cook HT, Levy JB, Griffith M, Cairns TD, Lightstone L. Prospective observational single-centre cohort study to evaluate the effectiveness of treating lupus nephritis with rituximab and mycophenolate mofetil but no oral steroids. Ann Rheum Dis. 2013, 72:1280-6.
- Cunha C, Alexander S, Ashby D, Lee J, Chusney G, Cairns TD, Lightstone L. Hydroxychloroquine blood concentration in lupus nephritis: a determinant of disease outcome? Nephrol Dial Transplant 2018, 33:1604-1610
- Miloslavsky EM, Naden RP, Bijlsma JWJ, Brogan PA, Sherwood Brown E, Brunetta P, Buttgereit F, Choi HK, DiCaire J-F, Gelfand JM, Heaney LG, Lightstone L, Lu N, Murrell DF, Petri M, Rosenbaum JT, Saag KS, Urowitz MB, Winthrop KL, Stone JH. Development of a glucocorticoid toxicity index (GTI) using multicriteria decision analysis. Ann Rheum Dis 2017, 76:543-546
- Carter SA, Lightstone L, Cattran D, Bagga A et al Standardised outcomes in Nephrology-Glomerular disease (SONG-GD): establishing a core outcome set for trials in patients with glomerular disease Kidney Int 2019, 95:1280-83
- Wiles K, Webster P, Seed PT, Bennett-Richards K, Bramham K, Brunskill N, Carr S, Hall M, Khan R, Nelson-Piercy C, Webster LM, Chappell LC & Lightstone L. The Impact of Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 3-5 on Pregnancy Outcomes. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2021, 36:2008-2017
- Wiles K, Chappell L, Clark K, Elman L, Hall M, Lightstone L, Mohammed G, Mukherjee D, Nelson-Piercy C, Webster P, Whybrow R and Bramham K
- Renal Association Clinical Practice Guideline (NICE accredited): Pregnancy and Renal Disease 2019 https://ukkidney.org/sites/renal.org/files/FINAL-Pregnancy-Guideline-September-2019.pdf and Clinical practice guideline on pregnancy and renal disease BMC Nephrol 2019, 20:401-444
- Turner-Stokes T, Edwards H and Lightstone L COVID-19 in patients with glomerular disease Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 2022, 31:191-198
- Prendecki M, Clarke C, Edwards H, McIntyre S, Mortimer P, Gleeson S, Martin P, Thomson T, Randell P, Shah A, Singanayagam A, Lightstone L, Cox A, Kelleher P, Willicombe M and McAdoo S Humoral and T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in patients receiving immunosuppression Ann Rheum Dis 2021, 80:1322-1329
Professor Liz Lightstone
Areas of Expertise
About Professor Liz Lightstone
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Additional Information
Research Highlights
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