Professor Andrew Mallett  

MBBS MMed PhD CF AFRACMA FASN FRACP

Professor Mallett leads the first and largest renal genetics clinical service and program in Australia.

Having been a Churchill Fellow and an RACP Foundation Jacquot Research Establishment Fellow, he has a strongly emerging profile in the clinical care and research of inherited kidney disease and nephrogenetics nationally, regionally and internationally. The clinical and translational research he is undertaking includes the epidemiology of inherited kidney diseases, subspecialist models of clinical care for these diseases, and new and novel genetic sequencing for nephrogenetic diagnosis and discovery including approaches to functional validation.

Currently, Professor in the College of Medicine (James Cook University), Clinical Fellow (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland), and Co-Lead Renal Genetics Program (Genetic Health Queensland), Prof Mallett is also National Director of the KidGen Collaborative, Lead for two Rare Disease Flagships (Australian Genomics Health Alliance), Director of Clinical Research and Nephrologist (Townsville University Hospital), and previously visiting fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and Addenbrooke’s Hospital, The University of Cambridge. He is committed to improving the understanding of inherited kidney disease as well as the clinical care and outcomes of Australians affected by it.

Janice Creenaune

Janice Creenaune was officially diagnosed with PKD around 20 years ago after she had her three children and at the time “knew there was no cure and very little (she) could do about it”.

Her mother had PKD. Her sisters had PKD and her daughter has PKD. In her family, through the generations, it was always known as the ‘Women’s disease’.

Robert Gardos

Board Chair, PKD Australia

Robert Gardos, graduated as a Textile Chemist and then spent his whole working life in the textile industry. In retirement he learnt that his son's primary school friend’s family had an inherited kidney disease, Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease, that has no cure.

In 2014 Robert co-founded PKD Australia with 2 affected families with aim to educate about, advocate for families with and raise money to fund research into a cure for PKD.