Dr Kerry Tomlinson trained at Cambridge and Oxford (but supports Cambridge in the boat race) and completed her renal specialist training in Nottingham. She joined University Hospitals North Midland​s as a consultant in 2002. She works in all aspects of renal medicine. She sub-specializes in renal transplantation and has been transplant lead nephrologist at UHNM since 2002. In that role she improved access to transplant listing for UHNM patients. The UHNM transplant service was commended as a local model of excellence in the West Midlands Peer Review 2010. Kerry was co-project lead for the West Midlands Strategic Cardiovascular Network/Renal Registry QI project “Transplant First: Addressing inequality in access to Kidney Transplantation in the West Midlands”. She now leads the Transplant First Project as adopted by KQUIP and chairs the West Midlands Transplant improvement group.