BTS People
BTS Executive Committee
Richard Baker
BTS President
British Transplantation SocietyRichard 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
BTS Vice President
British Transplantation SocietyNick 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
BTS Treasurer
British Transplantation SocietyRommel 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
BTS General Secretary
British Transplantation SocietyChris 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
EDI
British Transplantation Society3 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
Organ Retrieval
British Transplantation Society3 Year Term
2024-2027
Consultant Transplant and General Surgeon, Clinical Lead for Organ Retrieval, University Hospital Wales
Aimen Amer
Social Media
British Transplantation Society3 Year Term
2025-2028
Consultant Abdominal Transplant Surgeon, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne
Rosa Montero
Sustainability
British Transplantation SocietyCo-opted
2025-2026
Consultant Nephrologist, Renal & Transplant Unit, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Adrienne Seitz
Histocompatibility
British Transplantation Society3 Year Term
2025-2028
Consultant in Renal Medicine/Transplant Immunology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Shahid Farid
Liver Transplantation
British Transplantation Society3 Year Term
2024-2027
Consultant Hepatobiliary & Liver Transplant Surgeon at St James’s University Hospital
Clare Ecuyer
Recipient Co-ordination and Nursing
British Transplantation Society3 Year Term
2024-2027
Lead Nurse Renal Transplant, Viral Hepatitis and NORS at The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Sapna Shah
Transplant Nephrology
British Transplantation Society3 Year Term
2025-2028
Consultant Nephrologist KCH, Clinical Lead for Transplantation, King’s College Hospital, Honorary Senior Lecturer KCL
Lucy Dames
Donor Transplant Co-ordination
British Transplantation Society3 Year Term
2023-2026
Team Manager -London Organ Donation Services Team at NHSBT
Sarah Hosgood
Transplant Science
British Transplantation Societyco-opted
1 year term
2025-2026
University of Cambridge, Department of Surgery
Emily Thompson
Herrick Society President
British Transplantation SocietyElected by Herrick Society Members
2024-2026
Association for UK Transplant Surgical trainees
Cat Boffa
Transplant Surgery and Chair CoTS
British Transplantation Society3 Year Term
2025-2028
Consultant kidney transplant and vascular access surgeon, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS trust
Douglas Thorburn
Hepatology
British Transplantation Society3 Year Term
2024-2027
Liver Physician at Royal Free Hospital with an interest in liver transplantation and autoimmune liver disease
Marius Berman
Cardiac Transplantation
British Transplantation Society3 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
Pulmonary Transplantation
British Transplantation Society3 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
Clinical Trials and Research Committee
British Transplantation Society
Michael Ramage
Ethics Committee
British Transplantation Society
Stephen O’Neill
Standards and Guidelines Committee
British Transplantation Society
Clare Pattenden
Education Committee
British Transplantation Society
Cat Boffa
Chapter of Surgeons
British Transplantation SocietyClare Ecuyer
Chapter of Nurses
British Transplantation SocietyLucy Dames
Chapter of Nurses
British Transplantation SocietyOther BTS Members
Derek Manas
NHSBT Representative
British Transplantation Society
Lisa Burnapp
BTS Archivist
British Transplantation Society
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.
