Helen L. Pilmore (NZ)

Professor Helen Pilmore, MBChB, MD, FRACP, CNZM is a senior transplant nephrologist at Auckland City Hospital in New Zealand. She is an Honorary Professor in Medicine at Auckland University and leads the nephrology teaching programme for the School of Medicine.  She has been the New Zealand lead investigator for a number of international trials and has skills in designing and conducting large-scale prospective trials and analyses of registry data including analyses of the Australian New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry (ANZDATA) and the All of New Zealand, Acute Coronary Syndrome (ANZACS-QI) registry.  In total, she has published over 110 articles in peer-reviewed journals.   She was the President of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) from 2021 - 2023 and has taken a lead role in transplantation within New Zealand both clinically and in terms of transplantation protocol development and research.

She has established an extensive research collaborative network both nationally and internationally in the area of clinical trials.  She is currently the Chair Elect of the ANZDATA Advisory Committee and is a contributor to a number of ongoing epidemiological analyses. She is a contributor to KDIGO guidelines for kidney transplantation and has been the Oceania Representative for the Women in Transplantation Initiative which aims to ensure gender equity in transplantation.  Most recently she has developed the Kidney Waitlist Index (KiWI) score for assessment of kidney transplantation suitability in New Zealand aiming to ensure transparency and reduce barriers to transplantation.