Christopher Pugh MA, DPhil, FRCP, FMedSci

Dr. Christopher W. Pugh, MA, DPhil, FRCP, FMedSci is a Professor of Renal Medicine at the University of Oxford. He divides his time between outpatient clinics in nephrology, research in hypoxia biology, a project on the application of real-time physiological monitoring to the care of patients on dialysis, overseeing Oxford’s Graduate-Entry Medical Course, running OUCAGS, and being an Associate Dean in HETV.

Overall, he is motivated by the variety of his activities, the excitement of discovery science, the potential that arises from the application of the novel methodology, the esprit de corps that comes from working in teams, the hope of important clinical translation of the discoveries, and the stimulation of interaction with students, trainees and importantly his family.

His career decisions have been driven by a mixture of fortune, opportunity, opportunism, and calculated risk-taking; they have not always been right but a mixture of optimism, pessimism, determination, wit, and stupidity leads him to think it has gone all right.

Chris studied pre-clinical medicine at Oxford between 1975-8, became captivated by immunology, and obtained a doctorate for studies on dendritic cells from rat peripheral lymph.

He then worked as a Departmental Demonstrator in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, before being persuaded to undertake clinical studies and eventually qualifying in 1985. Following junior jobs in Oxford, Shrewsbury, and London, and three failed attempts at passing MRCP, Chris returned to Oxford as a Medical Registrar, keen to rekindle his research interest.