Dr Leah Krischock

Qualifications: MBBS, FRCPCH (UK), FRACP

Dr Leah Krischock is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer of the School of Women’s & Children’s Health in the Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, and a Senior Staff Specialist and Head of Department in Nephrology at the Sydney Children’s Hospital. She is an affiliate of the UNSW international Centre for Future Healthcare systems.  She undertook her undergraduate medical training at the University of Adelaide, and her postgraduate vocational training in paediatrics and nephrology in the UK.  Her research interests include paediatric renal transplantation and epidemiology and Quality of Life in paediatric patients with SLE. In 2016 she completed the UNSW Masters of Public Health and Health Management programmes and the UNSW AGSM's SCHN Leading With impact course in 2024. 

Teaching interests:

Undergraduate medical student supervision at Sydney Children’s Hospital

Postgraduate teaching for trainee paediatricians undertaking their Fellowship examinations. 

Paedaitric trainee educational supervision. 

Society Memberships & Professional Activities:

• Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK
• Member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology
• Member of the Australia and New Zealand Paediatric Nephrology Association
• Member of the British Association of Paediatric Nephrology and UK Renal Association
• Member of the International Paediatric Nephrology Association