Calne Williams Medal Presentations (BTS Congress 2023)

Varuna Aluvihare’s reflections on the Calne Williams Medal Presentations at The British Transplantation Society Annual Congress 2023 in Edinburgh.

Presentations explored within reflections include:

• Racial disparities in outcomes after liver transplantation in the United Kingdom: a registry analysis – Balaji Mahendran
• Outcomes of liver re-transplantation from donation after circulatory death livers using normothermic regional perfusion – Rohit Gaurav
• Waiting for a liver transplant: Should waiting time count? – Manoj Thillai
• Donor liver blood tests do not predict liver transplant outcomes – UK Registry Cohort Study – Samuel Tingle
• Normothermic machine preservation of large DBD liver grafts is associated with early allograft dysfunction – Angus Hann
• Infection incidence and antibiotic pharmacokinetics during ex situ normothermic machine perfusion of deceased donor livers –Muhammad Saeed Qureshi

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• 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.