Kjell Tullus

Dr Tullus has been a Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital since 2002. 
Dr Tullus has published more than 210 peer-reviewed papers, reviews and book chapters. He has tutored three PhD and one MD students.

Qualifications

MD, PhD, FRCPCH
Dr Tullus got his basic medical training at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden where he also did his PhD thesis. He got his training as paediatrician and paediatric nephrologist in Stockholm Sweden where he then worked as a consultant until 2002 when he moved to GOSH.

He is a member of the following professional bodies:

European Society for Paediatric Nephrology (ESPN)

International Paediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA)

American Society for Nephrology (ASN)

British Society for Paediatric Nephrology (BAPN)

The Renal Association

European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID)

European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) 

Swedish Society for Physicians

Swedish Society for Paediatricians

Swedish Society for Paediatric Nephrology

Swedish Society for Nephrology

Research Interests

His main research interests are inflammatory kidney diseases including lupus, hypertension (high blood pressure) including renovascular hypertension (high blood pressure caused by narrowing of the renal arteries). He has done studies on a number of other kidney diseases.

Most cited publications

Epilepsy, Ataxia, Sensorineural Deafness, Tubulopathy, and KCNJ10 Mutations
Authors:  Bockenhauer, Detlef; Feather, Sally; Stanescu, Horia C.; ...  Kleta, Robert
Published: 2009 in New England Journal of Medicine
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMOA0810276

MEDICAL PROGRESS Febrile Urinary Tract Infections in Children
Published: 2011 in New England Journal of Medicine
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMRA1007755

HNF1B Mutations Associate with Hypomagnesemia and Renal Magnesium Wasting
Authors:  Adalat, Shazia; Woolf, Adrian S.; Johnstone, Karen A.; ...  Bockenhauer, Detlef
Published: 2009 in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2008060633

A prospective nationwide study of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea in Sweden
Authors:  Karlstrom, O; Fryklund, B; Tullus, K; Burman, LG 
Published: Jan 1998 in Clinical Infectious Diseases
DOI: 10.1086/516277

Renovascular hypertension in children
Authors:  Tullus, Kjell; Brennan, Eileen; Hamilton, George; ...  Roebuck, Derek J.
Published: Apr 2008 in The Lancet
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60626-1