Professor Aine Burns

The Royal Free NHS Trust was one of the first units in the country to introduce a formal conservative care programme as an alternative to dialysis for patients who chose not to dialyse often because of old age and high co-morbidity. The multi-disciplinary group has an active clinical research programme in this area and has contributed to both national and international recommendations surrounding end of life care. Much of the research work is conducted in collaboration with the Marie Curie Care Centre at UCL.

Professor Burns runs clinical research at the Royal Free, utilising qualitative and quantitative methods to improve conservative management and end of life care for people with CKD.