Dr. Flythe is a nephrologist and clinical investigator at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill, Professor and Chief of Nephrology and Hypertension at the UNC School of Medicine, Director of Dialysis Services at UNC Hospitals, and Associate Director of the UNC Kidney Center in Chapel Hill, NC. She completed medical school at the UNC School of Medicine and Nephrology fellowship training at the Brigham and Women's Hospital- Massachusetts General Hospital Combined Program. She earned her Master's in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Flythe conducts patient-oriented qualitative, epidemiologic, and prospective research aimed at improving outcomes and experiences among individuals with advanced kidney diseases.