I am the Professor of Transplant Surgery at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Consultant Surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. I am the President of the Surgical Research Society and the Director of the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Organ Donation and Transplantation (odt.btru.nihr.ac.uk). I am also Director of Studies and Professorial Fellow in Medicine at St Catharine’s College Cambridge (caths.cam.ac.uk), where I enjoy teaching anatomy to medical students. I am an NIHR Senior Investigator.
I qualified from Nottingham University and trained in general and transplant surgery in Bristol, Leicester, Nottingham and Oxford. My current clinical work revolves around the live kidney donor programme but I also perform parathyroid surgery.
My research group focus on developing novel renal perfusion technologies with the aim of assessing and reconditioning kidneys and delivering pre-transplant allograft therapies. I have published 390 papers in peer-reviewed journals, supervised 39 awarded MD or PhD degrees and raised more than £20M in external grant funding. Perhaps more importantly, I helped to train colleagues now working as consultant surgeons in many of the adult kidney transplants in the UK and five of my former research fellows now hold chairs of surgery.