Our Speakers

• Ms Anya Adair

  Consultant Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon

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  Ms Anya Adair

  Consultant Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

  Role and Location

  Consultant Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

  Education

  • Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) University of London
  • Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) England
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) University of Edinburgh
  • Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS Gen Surg) England

  Research Interests

  Paid Organ Donation: The Case Against and Maximizing Use of Marginal Liver Grafts for Transplantation

   Membership

  • British Transplantation Society Council Member for Liver Transplantation
  • Clinical Lead Scottish HPB Cancer Network (SHPBN)
  • Liver Advisory Group (LAG) Core Group Member
  • HCC-UK Committee, Surgical Representative
  • IHPBA development committee
  • British Liver Trust Clinical Advisory Board and Pancreatic cancer UK Clinical Advisory group
• Ebenezer Akore Yeboah

  Nurse and PhD candidate

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  Ebenezer Akore Yeboah

  Nurse and PhD candidate Coventry

  Role and Location 
  Registered nurse and PhD candidate at Coventry University, UK

  Education
  He is a registered UK and Ghanaian nurse. He is an Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy and serves as a guest lecturer for the MSc Global healthcare management, Coventry University. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Chester and Birmingham Newman University. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Nursing at KNUST-Ghana.

  Research Interest
  His research interest is on the topic: Nursing in the context of climate change and sustainability. His clinical interest is accident and emergency care.

  Memberships
  Ebenezer is a sustainability subject expert group member at the Florence Nightingale Foundation.

• Dr James Allinson

  Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant Respiratory Physician

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  Dr James Allinson

  Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant Respiratory Physician NHLI and the Royal Brompton Hospital

  Role and Location
  Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at NHLI and a Consultant Respiratory Physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital.

  Education
  – PhD at Imperial College London, London, UK
  – MRCP Speciality Certificate Examination in Respiratory Medicine at Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
  – MRCP at the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
  – BMBCh at the University of Oxford, UK
  – BA(hons) at the University of Oxford, UK

  Research Interests
  He leads research exploring how COPD and lung health develops across the life course aiming to find ways to improve the treatment of those with established disease. He has 77 publications in the field of Respiratory.

• Dr Varuna Aluvihare

  Consultant Transplant Hepatologist and Hepatology Transplant Lead

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  Dr Varuna Aluvihare

  Consultant Transplant Hepatologist and Hepatology Transplant Lead Kings Hospital, London

  Role and Location

  Consultant Transplant Hepatologist and Hepatology Transplant Lead, Kings Hospital, London

  Education

  • Trained in medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, and completed specialist training in hepatology and transplantation at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.
  • MRC funded PhD and Clinician Scientist fellowships in Immunology/Molecular Biology at the world renowned MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.
  • Recipient of a 5 year HEFCE Senior Lecturer Fellowship and a ROTRF grant in transplantation research.

  Research Interests

  Liver regeneration, immune dysfunction and cancer biology

  Membership

  Chair of the British Liver Transplant Group, a member of the UK Liver Transplant Advisory Group, the Transplant Hepatology representative on the national Multivisceral Transplantation review group, the Transplant Hepatology representative on the British Transplant Society Council, and a member of the Editorial Board for Liver Transplantation.

• Josie Anderson

  Policy, Research and Campaigns Manager

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  Josie Anderson

  Policy, Research and Campaigns Manager Bliss

  Role and Location

  Policy, Research and Campaigns Manager at Bliss

  Research Interests

  Josie has worked at Bliss, the UK’s leading charity for babies born premature or sick, since 2014. She was commended by BAPM for devising and leading Bliss’ groundbreaking ‘Parents Aren’t Visitors’ campaign, set up in April 2020 in response to the introduction of COVID-19 access restrictions for parents with a baby in neonatal care.

  Her work across all four UK nations resulted in the Scottish Government updating its guidance on parental access early on in the pandemic, and updated NHS England guidance being published in December 2020 which explicitly stated that parents should not be considered visitors.

• Dr Ellie Asgari

  Consultant Nephrologist

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  Dr Ellie Asgari

  Consultant Nephrologist Guys Hospital, London

  Role and Location

  Consultant Nephrologist, Guys Hospital, London

  Education

  • Trained as a nephrologist and general physician in South London
  • Completed PhD at Guy’s Hospital looking at the role of the innate immune system in ischemia/reperfusion injury at the time of kidney transplantation.

  Research Interests

  Interested in artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare, kidney disease, transplantation and governance

  Membership

  President of the Nephrology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and Chair of the British Transplantation Society Standards and Guidelines Committee

• Darush Attar-Zadeh

  Respiratory Lead Pharmacist

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  Darush Attar-Zadeh

  Respiratory Lead Pharmacist NWL Asthma Network (Children & Young People) and NHS RightBreathe

  Role and Location

  Darush Attar-Zadeh is the respiratory lead pharmacist for NWL Asthma Network (Children & Young People) and NHS RightBreathe. He has presented at various national & international conferences (including ERS, IPCRG, PCRS, CPC, Respiratory show) and was asked to help review the National Training Standards for Smoking Cessation. He is an active teacher and follower of the IPCRG Asthma Right Care social movement and enjoys spreading positive messages on how people can live much better with asthma. One of his main missions is to reduce health inequalities caused by tobacco and poor health care and spends a lot of his time teaching in deprived locations across the UK.

  Education

  BPharm, MFRPSII, IP

  Research

  Darush has published more than 25 clinical papers and writes teaching modules on various pharmacy platforms.

  Memberships

  He is Co-Chair of the TaskForce for Lung Health Medicines Optimisation group and part of the PCRS Executive Committee.

• Dr Tobi Ayorinde

  NIHR Clinical Lecturer

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  Dr Tobi Ayorinde

  NIHR Clinical Lecturer UCL

  Role and Location
  NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Transplantation, UCL

  Education
  Tobi Ayorinde read medicine at the University of Cambridge, followed by clinical training at UCL. He returned to Cambridge as an Organ Retrieval Surgeon, where he began combining his clinical and academic interests through his work on the PITHIA trial and other projects.

  Research
  Dr Ayorinde’s doctoral thesis was aimed at advancing quality assessments of kidney transplants. His work has earned national awards and has led to over 20 publications in renowned medical journals. Tobi’s writings have explored AI applications in renal pathology, surgical assessments of deceased donor kidneys, and the effects of social media on organ donation.  

• Nooria Azeez

  Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

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  Nooria Azeez

  Advanced Clinical Pharmacist Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

  Role and Location
  Advanced Clinical Pharmacist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust/

  Education
  MPharm, MEd

  Research Interests
  Her main area of research interest is inhaler technique.

• Dr Richard Baker

  Consultant Nephrologist

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  Dr Richard Baker

  Consultant Nephrologist St James’s University Hospital, Leeds

  Role and Location

  Consultant Nephrologist, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds

  Education

  Trained in medicine at Cambridge University and then the Royal London Hospital. Completed renal specialist training in 1993 at Hammersmith Hospital in West London, after which undertook an MRC training fellowship in 1996 and PhD in 2001.

  Research Interests

  Medical aspects of transplantation, interstitial renal disease and glomerulonephritis.

  Membership

  Clinical leadership role NHSBT and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer

• Frances Barrett

  Respiratory Nurse Specialist

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  Frances Barrett

  Respiratory Nurse Specialist Belfast

  Role and Location

  Respiratory Nurse Specialist Belfast – associated lecturer in The University of Ulster and director and trainer for Barrett McGrath EMS Ltd.

  Education

  RGN, Bsc (Hons) first class honours Respiratory, level 4 teaching and assessing certificate.

  Research

  Practice real world research – qualitative.

  Memberships

  NMC, RCN, ARTP, PCRS & ARNS.

• Dr Anna Baverstock

  Consultant in Community Child Health

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  Dr Anna Baverstock

  Consultant in Community Child Health Somerset

  Role and Location
  Dr Anna Baverstock is a consultant in community child health looking after children with complex neurodisability and their families in Somerset. She has been an educational supervisor and Associate DME for support and wellbeing. She was invited to be a member of the NHS Staff and Learners’ Mental Wellbeing Commission in 2019. Currently she is lead for senior doctor wellbeing and leadership within her trust. Looking at organisation wide changes to support colleagues to thrive and work and reduce burnout.

  Research Interests
  Anna is a trained coach, mediator and Schwartz round facilitator. Her philosophy is how do we ensure the first patient of the shift and the last get the same kind, safe care? We must look after ourselves and our teams during our working day. A big part of this is how we connect to self and others especially when under pressure. Can we form brave spaces to enable honest conversation that enable growth and change? When not talking she loves to run, do yoga, read, draw and doodle often inspired by quotes or poems that resonate.

• Dr Sarah Baxter

  Principal Clinical Psychologist and Professional Lead

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  Dr Sarah Baxter

  Principal Clinical Psychologist and Professional Lead Respiratory Psychology at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals

  Role and Location

  Dr Baxter is the Principal Clinical Psychologist and Professional Lead for Respiratory psychology at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals based at the Royal Preston Hospital site.

  Education

  Doctor of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsych) and BSc (hons).

  Research

  Prevalence rates of anxiety and depression in patients with complex breathlessness.

  Memberships

  The Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).

• Dr Julia Bielicki

  Consultant Paediatrician and Researcher

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  Dr Julia Bielicki

  Consultant Paediatrician and Researcher St George's University of London and University Children's Hospital of Basel

  Role and Location
  Consultant paediatrician and a researcher at St George’s University of London and the University Children’s Hospital of Basel.

  Education
  Masters of Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  

  Research Interests
  Dr Bielicki was part of the core team of the Antibiotic Resistance and Prescribing in European Children project, one of the largest international collaborations on antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in children to date. Her current research focuses on developing appropriate surveillance methodology to assess childhood antibiotic resistance and make surveillance data accessible for clinical practice. Recently Dr Bielicki took the lead in developing a successful proposal for a large UK-based randomized factorial trial of antibiotic dose and duration in childhood community-acquired pneumonia under the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme.

• Dr Catherine Boffa

  Consultant Renal Transplant Surgeon

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  Dr Catherine Boffa

  Consultant Renal Transplant Surgeon Portsmouth

  Role and Location

  Consultant Renal Transplant Surgeon, Portsmouth

  Research Interests

  • Oxygenated End-Hypothermic Machine Perfusion in Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplant
  • Transplantation of Kidneys From Donors With Acute Kidney Injury

  Membership

  British Transplantation Society Education Committee

• Stephen Bond

  Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist

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  Stephen Bond

  Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

  Role and Location

  Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

  Membership

  British Transplantation Society Ethics Committee