We are pleased to announce that Professor Colin Wilson, Consultant HPB and Transplant Surgeon and Hon Professor of Transplant/HPB Surgery at Newcastle University, has been shortlisted for the position of Chair of Transplantation in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences. Professor Wilson will be visiting the department on Monday 6 January and will be giving a lecture at 11:15am in the Richard Doll Lecture Theatre. All are welcome to attend and the meeting will also be run as a hybrid.

Colin Wilson is a Consultant HPB and Transplant Surgeon and Hon Professor of Transplant/HPB Surgery at Newcastle University. His interests include organ perfusion, artificial intelligence image analysis and meta-analysis. His clinical practice includes Liver, Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation and he leads a research team in the Newcastle University Clinical Research Institute (NUTCRI). His PhD centred on machine perfusing DCD kidneys for transplantation and is current roles include being theme lead for the NIHR Blood Transplant Research Unit (Cambridge/Newcastle) on “Organ Utilisation”.

This talk will follow his experiences in meeting the challenges of uncontrolled kidney donation, development of novel machine perfusion strategies, the supporting evidence and the potential for AI and stem cells to change the landscape of organ preservation.

All members of the University and NHS clinical staff are welcome.

Please email Louise King (louise.king@nds.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to attend online.