Paul Cockwell is a consultant physician and nephrologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham and South West Birmingham Hospitals and professor of nephrology at the University of Birmingham, UK.

 

Paul is clinical vice president of the UK Renal Association, the professional representative group for UK kidney specialists. He chairs the Royal College of Physicians joint specialty committee for renal medicine.

 

Paul has helped lead the clinical development in Birmingham of one of the largest and most comprehensive renal services in Europe, and has developed a large integrated clinical research infrastructure supporting multiple outputs (see pubmed: Cockwell P). Paul has long standing interests in service development, clinical quality, and education.

 

Paul has a number of interests outside work, including playing and competing in sport, particularly squash and cycling (in which he averages a significant fall (‘a yard sale’)) every 6 months, and keeping his two teenage sons in line.