James Burton is Professor of Renal Medicine and Associate Dean for Clinical Research at the University of Leicester as well as an Honorary Consultant Nephrologist. He is the Chair of the UK Kidney Association Clinical Guidelines Committee and has led a number of recent UK guideline updates, including lifestyle and physical activity in patients with kidney disease. He sits on a number of UK Kidney Research Consortium Clinical Study Groups and is a member of the UK Renal Trials Network.

His research portfolio includes mechanisms behind the development of uraemic cardiovascular disease through to interventional clinical trials to improve patient outcomes; his clinical work with dialysis patients has been shortlisted for two NHS Innovation awards.