

BTS People
BTS Executive Committee

Steve Wigmore
Steve Wigmore has been a Professor of Transplantation Surgery for many years and has research interests in improving organ function in transplantation, training and ethics.
2 Year Term
2019-2021
Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA

Lisa Burnapp
Lisa is a Consultant Nurse at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Lead Nurse – Living Donation, NHS Blood and Transplant.
2 Year Term
2019-2021
Guy’s Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT
St Thomas’ Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH

Nicholas Torpey
Nick is a transplant nephrologist in Cambridge, clinical director of a unit performing kidney, pancreas, liver and intestine transplantation. Nick has sat on the BTS council representing transplant nephrology, and as such has gained much insight into the running and importance of the society.
4 Year Term
2020-2024

Sian Griffin
Sian is a Nephrologist in Cardiff, Directorate Lead for R&D and Chair of the UKKRC Transplantation Clinical Study Group. Sian is the Cardiff representative to KAG and a member of the NHSBT Living Donation Kidney Transplantation Strategy Implementation Group.
3 Year Term
2018-2021
University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff. CF14 4XW
BTS Council Members

Gareth Jones
3 Year Term
2019-2022
Clinical Lead of Renal Transplantation at the Royal Free

Bimbi Fernando
3 Year Term
2020-2023
Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust

Chris Callaghan
3 Year Term
2018-2021
Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Guy’s Hospital

Adnan Sharif
3 Year Term
2020-2023
Consultant Nephrologist, University hospitals Birmingham, NHS Foundation Trust Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Olivia Shaw
3 Year Term
2019-2022
Clinical Scientist in H&I FRCPath and a Consultant in the Clinical Transplantation Laboratory, Guys Hospital

Krishna Menon
3 Year Term
2018-2021
London Bridge Hopsital, 27-29 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2PR

Katie Morley
Co-opted 2020
Lead Nurse, Recipient Coordinator, NHSBT

Jennifer Baxter
3 Year Term
2020-2023
Lead Retrieval Nurse and Donor Care Physiologist, Royal Papworth Hospital

Gavin Pettigrew
British Transplantation Society
3 year term
2019-2022
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridgeshire

Dominic Summers
Elected by Herrick Society Members
2 Year Term
2020-2022
Association for UK Transplant Surgical trainees

Frank Dor
3 Year Term
2020-2023
Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Hammersmith Hospital

Dr Varuna Aluvihare
3 Year Term
2018-2021

Stephen Large
3 Year Term
2018-2021

Jasvir Parmar
3 Year Term
2018-2021
Chapter & Committee Chairs

Michelle Willicombe

Refik Gokmen

Lorna Marson

Ellie Asgari

David Van Dellen

Frank Dor

Katie Morley

Jennifer Baxter
Other BTS Members

John Forsythe

James Douglas
Appointed by Council
June 2016

Jan Shorrock
Appointed by Council
Feb 2016
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.

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.

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