Gökmen, Refik - consultant nephrologist

Consultant profiles

Contacts

Secretary: Jenny Owen and Irene Miles
Secretary tel: 020 7188 5667

• Biography

  Dr Gökmen studied at Cambridge and UCL, and qualified in 2001. He undertook training in renal medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, the Royal London Hospital, King’s College Hospital and Guy’s & St Thomas’.

  He was a Kidney Research UK Clinical Training Fellow in 2007-2010 with Professor Graham Lord in the MRC Centre for Transplantation, and a Clinical Lecturer at King’s College London in 2011-2014.

  He was appointed as a Consultant at Guy’s & St Thomas’ in April 2014.

• Education / training

  • MA (Cantab) 2000
  • MBBS (UCL) 2001
  • MRCP 2004
  • PhD (KCL) 2011
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education (UCL/RCP) 2012
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2013

• Specialist interests

  Dr Gökmen’s clinical practice encompasses all areas of renal medicine and transplantation, including living kidney donor medical assessment, haemodialysis, and kidney and pancreas transplantation. He also has special interests in medical ethics and education and training.

• Publications

  Nguyen LP, Pan J, Dinh TT, Hadeiba H, O’Hara E 3^rd, Ebtikar A, Hertweck A, Gökmen MR, Lord GM, Jenner RG, Butcher EC, Habtezion A. Role and species-specific expression of colon T cell homing receptor GPR15 in colitis. Nat Immunol 2015; 16: 207-13. PMID: 25531831

  Gökmen MR, Dong R, Kanhere A, Powell N, Perucha E, Jackson I, Howard JK, Jenner RG, Lord GM. Genome-wide regulatory analysis reveals that T-bet suppresses Th17 lineage differentiation through direct suppression of IRF4.  J Immunol 2013; 191: 5925-32. PMID 24249732

  Gökmen MR, Cosyns JP, Arlt VA, Stiborova M, Phillips DH, Schmeiser HH, Simmonds MSJ, Cook HT, Vanherweghem JL, Nortier JL, Lord GM. The epidemiology, diagnosis and management of Aristolochic Acid Nephropathy: a narrative review. Ann Int Med 2013; 158: 469-477. PMID 23552405

  Gökmen MR, Hernandez-Fuentes MP. Biomarkers of tolerance. Curr Opin Organ Transplant 2013; 18: 416-20. PMID 23838646

  Powell N, Walker AW, Stolarczyk E, Canavan JB, Gökmen MR, Marks E, Jackson I, Hashim A, Curtis M, Howard JK, Parkhill J, MacDonald TT, Lord GM. T-bet regulates microbiota-dependent mucosal inflammation mediated by IL-7R⁺ innate lymphoid cells. Immunity 2012; 37(4): 674-84. PMID 23063332

  Kanhere A, Hertweck A, Bhatia U, Gökmen MR, Perucha E, Jackson I, Lord GM, Jenner RG. T-bet and GATA3 orchestrate Th1 and Th2 cell differentiation through lineage-specific targeting of distal regulatory elements. Nat Commun 2012; 3: 1268. PMID 23232398

  Gökmen MR, Lord GM. Aristolochic acid nephropathy. BMJ 2012; 344:e4000. PMID 22705815

  Gökmen MR, Lombardi G, Lechler RI. The importance of the indirect pathway of allorecognition in clinical transplantation. Curr Opin Immunol  2008; 20(5): 568-74. PMID 18655831

  Grundligh J, Dargan P, Gökmen MR, Nair P. Sparkle lamp ingestion: a rare cause of death. Clin Toxicol 2010; 48(8): 854-6 PMID 20969507

  Book chapters:

  Gökmen MR, Lord GM. Aristolochic Acid Nephropathy. In N Turner, D Goldsmith, J Himmerfarb et al (Eds), Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology, 4^th edition. OUP

  Afzali B, Atalar KB, Gökmen MR, Goldsmith DG. Renal Transplantation. In IS Shergill, M Arya, PR Grange, AR Mundy (Eds), Medical Therapy in Urology (pp197-208), 2010. London: Springer

  Gökmen MR, Afzali B, Makanjuola D. Renal Physiology. In A Ugwumadu (Ed), Basic Science for Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2013. Oxford: OUP