Professor Farid Girgis Ghalli

Professor Ghalli had his MBBCh in Feb 1995. He completed higher Specialist Registrar Training in General Medicine and Nephrology completed in 1999. He then got a Master's degree in general medicine (subspeciality: Nephrology) in December 1999. His research evaluated microalbuminuria as a marker of silent myocardial ischaemia in Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus. Prof Farid Ghalli completed his doctorate (MD) thesis in nephrology, researching glutathione transferase enzyme as a marker of early renal tubular dysfunction in patients with glomerulonephritis and post-renal transplant. In 2010 he had MRCP(UK) and MRCP Nephrology 2015. Between 2012 and 2018, he had second higher nephrology and transplantation training in the UK as he worked at the nephrology and renal transplant unit -University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. He is a consultant nephrologist at University Hospitals Sussex- Sussex Renal Unit since March 2018. Prof Ghalli is practising different aspects of nephrology and dialysis and he has a special interest in immunological renal disease glomerulonephritis, vasculitis, and CKD- Mineral bone disease. He is also a member of CKD-MBD and Glomerulonephritis UK clinical study groups. He has a special interest in research, publications and medical education and is a clinical reader in medicine at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. He is a lead of clinical skills material development at BSMS and a member of the Academy of medical educators. He was competitively awarded The Best Award in Innovation In education 2015 and nominated for the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Clinical Teacher of the year 2016. also in 2016 he was awarded the leadership in Nephrology Education award from the Global Kidney Academy (GKA) and received it in Prague in March 2017. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Young Nephrologists Platform program of the European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association ERA-EDTA. In 2019, he was awarded a Diploma in Transplantation Science from Liverpool University and a Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians London (FRCP) He is a member of the faculty of the GlomCon group to study glomerular disease.  He has been the renal medicine training program director in Kent Sussex and Surrey (KSS) Deanery since February 2023. His clinical senior lecturer status was promoted to clinical reader in medicine at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in February 2024. His clinical reader status has been prompted by the university to clinical professor in medicine in November 2025.  

Chronic and acute renal disease  Diabetic nephropathy  Electrolyte disorders  Glomerulonephritis and vasculitis  Hypertension  Nephrotic syndrome  Patients on dialysis and transplant candidates  Proteinuria