Research Team

Jenny Flythe is a nephrologist and clinical investigator at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Kidney Center and Director of Dialysis Services at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC. She completed medical at the UNC School of Medicine, Internal Medicine residency at Oregon Health & Science University, and Nephrology fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital-Massachusetts General Hospital Combined Program. She earned her Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard School for Public Health. She is active in the kidney community with service on numerous American Society of Nephrology, Kidney Health Initiative, National Kidney Foundation, Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), and National Institutes of Health (NIH) committees, workgroups, advisory panels, and study sections. She is an Associate Editor for Kidney 360 and an Associate Editor for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) research reports. Her research interests include comparative effectiveness of dialysis treatment interventions, stakeholder engagement, and patient-reported outcomes among individuals with advanced kidney disease. Dr. Flythe has been funded by the NIH, PCORI, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Industry.