BTS People

BTS Executive Committee

Richard Baker

Richard Baker

BTS President

Richard is a nephrologist in Leeds with a specialist interest in transplantation. He also contributes to the living liver donation and hand transplantation programmes. He has a long interest in all aspects of transplantation since his PhD studies in London. He has previously been treasurer and remains a staunch advocate of the BTS.

2 Year Term
2025-2027

St. James’s University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF

Nicholas Torpey

Nicholas Torpey

BTS Vice President

Nick is a transplant nephrologist in Cambridge. As well as an interest in ABO and HLA antibody incompatible transplants he is actively involved in non-renal transplantation, both at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth Hospitals. He too has previously been BTS Treasurer and is committed to developing the BTS as the voice of all transplant professionals.

2 Year Term
2025-2027

Rommel Ravanan

Rommel Ravanan

BTS Treasurer

Rommel is a consultant nephrologist and transplant Physician in Bristol. High immunological risk transplantation and medical leadership are his work related passions. Outside work he is a foodie and cricket buff.

4 Year Term
2024-2028

Chris Callaghan

Chris Callaghan

BTS General Secretary

Chris is a transplant surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, London, and also at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Evelina London Children’s Hospital. He specialises in kidney and pancreas transplantation, and has research interests in machine perfusion and the use of higher risk deceased donor organs.

3 Year Term
2024-2027

BTS Council Members

Adnan Sharif

Adnan Sharif

EDI

3 Year Term
2025-2028

Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician (University Hospitals Birmingham). Honorary Professor (School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham)

Elijah Ablorsu

Elijah Ablorsu

Organ Retrieval

3 Year Term
2024-2027

Consultant Transplant and General Surgeon, Clinical Lead for Organ Retrieval, University Hospital Wales

Aimen Amer

Aimen Amer

Social Media

3 Year Term
2025-2028

Consultant Abdominal Transplant Surgeon, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne

Rosa Montero

Rosa Montero

Sustainability

Co-opted
2025-2026

Consultant Nephrologist, Renal & Transplant Unit, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Adrienne Seitz

Adrienne Seitz

Histocompatibility

3 Year Term
2025-2028

Consultant in Renal Medicine/Transplant Immunology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Shahid Farid

Shahid Farid

Liver Transplantation

3 Year Term
2024-2027

Consultant Hepatobiliary & Liver Transplant Surgeon at St James’s University Hospital

Clare Ecuyer

Clare Ecuyer

Recipient Co-ordination and Nursing

3 Year Term
2024-2027

Lead Nurse Renal Transplant, Viral Hepatitis and NORS at The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Sapna Shah

Sapna Shah

Transplant Nephrology

3 Year Term
2025-2028

Consultant Nephrologist KCH, Clinical Lead for Transplantation, King’s College Hospital, Honorary Senior Lecturer KCL

Lucy Dames

Lucy Dames

Donor Transplant Co-ordination

3 Year Term
2023-2026

Team Manager -London Organ Donation Services Team at NHSBT

Sarah Hosgood

Sarah Hosgood

Transplant Science

co-opted

1 year term
2025-2026

University of Cambridge, Department of Surgery

Emily Thompson

Emily Thompson

Herrick Society President

Elected by Herrick Society Members
2024-2026

Association for UK Transplant Surgical trainees

Cat Boffa

Cat Boffa

Transplant Surgery and Chair CoTS

3 Year Term
2025-2028

Consultant kidney transplant and vascular access surgeon, Portsmouth Hospitals University  NHS trust

Douglas Thorburn

Douglas Thorburn

Hepatology

3 Year Term
2024-2027

Liver Physician at Royal Free Hospital with an interest in liver transplantation and autoimmune liver disease

Marius Berman

Marius Berman

Cardiac Transplantation

3 Year Term
2024-2027

Consultant Cardiothoracic & Transplant Surgeon. Surgical Lead Transplantation and MCS
Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK. Chair, Retrieval Advisory Group, NHSBT. Associate UK Clinical Lead for Organ Retrieival – NHSBT

Andy Fisher

Andy Fisher

Pulmonary Transplantation

3 Year Term
2025-2028

Respiratory and Lung Transplant Physician, Newcastle Hospitals NHS FT, Professor of Respiratory Transplant Medicine at Newcastle University.

Chapter & Committee Chairs

James Hunter

James Hunter

Clinical Trials and Research Committee
Michael Ramage

Michael Ramage

Ethics Committee
Stephen O’Neill

Stephen O’Neill

Standards and Guidelines Committee
Clare Pattenden

Clare Pattenden

Education Committee
Cat Boffa

Cat Boffa

Chapter of Surgeons
Clare Ecuyer

Clare Ecuyer

Chapter of Nurses
Lucy Dames

Lucy Dames

Chapter of Nurses

Other BTS Members

Derek Manas

Derek Manas

NHSBT Representative
Lisa Burnapp

Lisa Burnapp

BTS Archivist
 

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The aim of the Society is to advance the study of the biological and clinical problems of tissue and organ transplantation, to facilitate contact between persons interested in transplantation, and to make new knowledge available to any person for the general good of the community.

Our vision is to be the professional voice of transplantation in the UK, representing all the disciplines of the transplantation community and developing scientific, clinical and ethical practice for the benefit of patients.