Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Wai Lim is a Senior Consultant Nephrologist at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. He is the Chair of the Australia Kidney Trial Network Transplant working group, Committee Member of the Commonwealth-funded National Indigenous Kidney Transplantation Taskforce (NIKTT), Co-Chair of the Scientific Program Education Committee (SPEC) of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) and Chair of the Scientific Review Ethics Subcommittee at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. There are four key areas of research interests: “Epidemiology and kidney transplantation” with research focusing on improving allocation, identifying factors associated with allograft and patient outcomes in kidney transplant recipients; “Immunology profile and transplant outcome” focusing on the personalised immunological risk profile; “Epidemiology and clinical nephrology” focusing on the impact of nutrition and survival and evaluating biomarkers and cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease; and “Clinical trials” focusing on intervention to improve cardiovascular disease in kidney transplant recipients and patients with chronic kidney disease.