Meet the Executive Committee

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Professor Adnan Sharif

UKODTRN Co-Director | Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician, University Hospitals Birmingham | Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham

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Karen Rockell

UKODTRN Co-Director and PPIE Lead | Liver Transplant recipient

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Emma Aitken

Consultant Renal Transplant and Vascular Access Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow | Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow

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Dr Jonathan Bannard-Smith

Consultant & Senior Clinical Lecturer in Critical Care & Anaesthesia, Manchester Royal Infirmary | Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Manchester

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Dr Sunil Daga

Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician at St James' University Hospital, part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

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Professor Andrew Fisher

Professor of Respiratory Transplant Medicine, Newcastle University

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Professor Siân Griffin

Consultant Nephrologist, Cardiff | Honorary Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University

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Rachel Johnson

Assistant Director - Statistics & Clinical Research, NHS Blood and Transplant

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Dr Maria Kaisar

Scientific Programme Lead in OTDT NHS Blood and Transplant | Honorary Research Associate in Transplant Science, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences University of Oxford

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Dr Kaitlin Mayne

Nephrology Registrar, Glasgow | Clinical Lecturer, University of Glasgow

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Dr Aisling McMahon

Executive Director of Research and Policy, Kidney Research UK

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Tracey Murray

Director of Programmes, Kidney Research UK

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David Nasralla

Consultant HPB & Liver Transplant Surgeon, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

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Professor Gavin Pettigrew

Professor of Clinical and Experimental Transplantation, University of Cambridge

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Dr Anna Reed

Lung Transplant Physician at Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, part of Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust & MRC CARP Fellow, Imperial College & The Francis Crick Institute, London

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Professor Douglas Thorburn

Royal Free London NHS Trust

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Sam Tingle

MRC Clinical Research Fellow and General Surgery Registrar, Newcastle University | Herrick Society representative

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Isobel Buckton

Network Co-ordinator

Meet the Board Members

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Dr Aimun Ahmed

Consultant Nephrologist, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Professor John Dark

Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Newcastle University

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Professor Peter Friend

Professor of Transplantation, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford

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Professor Sharlene Greenwood

Consultant Physiotherapist, King's College Hospital | Professor of Exercise and Lifestyle Therapy, King's College London

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Dr Dan Harvey

National Lead for Innovation & Research in Organ Donation, NHSBT | Consultant & Hon. Associate Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University of Nottingham

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Dr Simon Knight

Senior Clinical Research Fellow | Honorary Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford

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Professor Derek Manas

Consultant Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgeon, Institute of Transplantation, Newcastle NHS Foundation Trust

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Mr Krishna Menon

President, British Transplantation Society | Consultant Liver Transplant and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgeon, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Professor Rutger J. Ploeg

Professor of Transplant Biology, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford

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Dr Shivani Sharma

Professor of Health Equity and Inclusion, Aston University

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Dr Liz Stokes

Senior Researcher, Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford

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Colin Wilson

Consultant Surgeon, Professor of Transplantation

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Dr Pippa Bailey

Associate Professor in Renal Medicine, University of Bristol | Honorary Consultant Nephrologist, North Bristol NHS Trust

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Kate Langton

Director of Research, Heart Research UK

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Dr Rebeka Jenkins

Clinical Research Fellow, NHS Blood and Transplant | Early Career Researcher, NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Organ Donation and Transplantation

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Stephen O’Neill

Honorary Senior Lecturer and Surgery Lead, Queen's University Belfast Centre for Medical Education

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Jess Sutcliffe

Steve Morgan Foundation Beta Cell Therapy Programme Lead, Diabetes UK

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