Adj Graham Paget

Graham Paget is a South African clinician-researcher in nephrology and transplant medicine, with strong links to Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and academic institutions in Johannesburg. His work centres on chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, transplantation, and infection-related renal complications within resource-limited settings, contributing to context-specific evidence for sub-Saharan Africa.

His research explores progression and outcomes of CKD among black South African patients, highlighting the roles of proteinuria, diabetes, anaemia, metabolic disturbances, and social determinants. He has advanced understanding of iron metabolism in CKD through studies on hepcidin and GDF-15, and examined survival predictors in pre-dialysis populations, informing risk stratification and early intervention strategies.

Paget has also addressed sepsis-associated acute kidney injury in intensive care, CMV disease in paediatric liver transplantation, and pregnancy after solid organ transplantation, emphasising multidisciplinary care and health equity. Additional contributions include work on COVID-19 diagnostics and vaccine-associated renal autoimmunity, reflecting broad expertise at the interface of nephrology, infectious diseases, and public health.