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Biography
Mr Jeremy Crane is a consultant transplant and vascular surgeon based in London. His NHS practice is at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, where he is an honorary senior lecturer and the lead for education and training in transplant and vascular access surgery.
His practice encompasses kidney and pancreas transplantation, dialysis access surgery, vascular surgery (including varicose vein surgery) and he has a specialist interest in treating chronic wounds.
After qualifying from the University of Liverpool in 1997, Jeremy completed his house jobs at the Royal Liverpool University, St George’s, Chelsea and Westminster, St Mary’s and Great Ormond Street hospitals.
He underwent higher surgical training in north west London, completing vascular surgery training at St Mary’s Hospital and specialist transplantation surgery training at Hammersmith, St George’s and Guy’s hospitals.
Between basic and higher surgical training, Mr Crane undertook a postgraduate degree at Imperial College and St Mary’s Hospital. He was awarded a doctorate of medicine from the University of London for his MD thesis in the subject of haemodynamics and blood flow patterns in vascular surgery.
Mr Crane’s specialist interests include kidney and pancreatic transplantation surgery (with both deceased and live donors), vascular access surgery and mainstream vascular surgery. In addition he has wide experience in other general surgical conditions and in the management of complex wounds.
Mr Crane was appointed as a consultant vascular and transplant surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in 2011. He is based primarily at Hammersmith Hospital where he provides a kidney and pancreas transplantation service and has set up a programme of vascular access surgery for haemodialysis patients – the first of its kind in north west London.
Biography
Mr Frank Dor attended medical school in Antwerp, Belgium and Rotterdam, Netherlands. He qualified from Erasmus MC University cum laude.
He completed his PhD (cum laude) at Harvard Medical School and Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Mr Dor undertook his general surgery and transplant surgery training at Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Additional languages spoken: Dutch, French, German
Biography
Dr Duncan qualified from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, University of London 1995 with distinctions in Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Merit in Medicine and Pathology. During medical school he exercised his interest in Anthropology with an Intercalated BSc at University College London 1992. He gained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians London 1998 with Fellowship awarded 2009.
He became an Associate Fellow Higher Education Academy in 2015 teaching as Royal College Tutor training junior doctors, and was Educational Supervisor of the Year in the Division of Medicine at Imperial College 2019. He co-founded the International Society of Nephrology Sisterhood with a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka 2019, with the objective of universal health care. He achieved a Diploma Certificate in Medical Leadership from Birkbeck University 2021.
As a specialist registrar at St Mary’s Hospital, London his research interests were diverse investigating chronic kidney disease in the Indo Asian community, dialysis access and treatment of nephrotic syndrome. He was appointed Renal Consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in 2005 and works at Hammersmith Hospital with extensive clinical experience in Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation. He is Clinical Lead and Research Lead for Dialysis. He has Honorary Consultancy at Northwick Park Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital.
He is a member of UK Kidney Association, the American Society of Nephrology, the International Society of Nephrology and the European Society for Artificial Organs. He has supervised postgraduate studies for trainees, he supports nurses and pharmacists as independent medical prescribers and has led a biannual Dialysis Academy a multidisciplinary course to improve patient care.
Biography
Dr Andrew Frankel has been working as a consultant nephrologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust since 1995 and works at the Imperial Renal and Transplant Centre, which is one of the largest kidney units in Europe catering for a population base of over three million.
He has experience in managing all aspects of kidney disease but has a particular interest in relation to the management kidney disease in the context of diabetes, cardiac disease and obesity. Over the years he has maintained a significant research interest in relation to diabetes and the kidney, both in terms of how diabetes affects the kidneys leading to deterioration in kidney function, but also in relation to how the presence of kidney disease influences the management of diabetes.
Dr Frankel has published research in relation to assessment of renal complications in patients with diabetes and obesity and has led on the development of national guidelines on the management of diabetes in the context of kidney disease. He is recognised both nationally and internationally as an expert in this field.
Biography
Professor Hakim has a fellowship in gastroenterological surgery from the Mayo Clinic and a fellowship in transplantation from the University of Minnesota.
Languages spoken: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian
Biography
Mr. Hellawell is a consultant urological surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Northwick Park and St. Mark’s Hospital.
He trained in laparoscopic oncology at Imperial College and at the Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, Australia. He completed a laparoscopic radical prostatectomy fellowship in Leipzig, Germany with Professor Stolzenburg at the University of Leipzig.
In addition to general urology he has a sub-specialty interest in urological oncology including prostate, bladder and renal cancer. He has a high volume practice in laparoscopic pelvic oncology (laparoscopic radical prostatectomy and radical cystectomy) and upper tract laparoscopy (laparoscopic nephrectomy).
He provides a complete general urology service including surgery for benign prostate disease and renal stone disease. He maintains an academic interest in clinical research and has published book chapters and papers on prostate cancer and laparoscopic surgery.
Medical training
University of Oxford 1988 – 1994
Biography
Mr Paul Herbert qualified in 1997 from Charing Cross Medical School and has pursued a career in surgery since then. He has trained and worked mainly in London as a surgeon with a sub-specialist interest in the challenging specialties of renal transplantation and the surgery of vascular access. As part of this he trained in units at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Mr Herbert has worked as a consultant surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust since 2013. He is expert in all aspects of renal transplantation including live donation, as well as vascular access, hernia repair and complex abdominal wall repairs in post-surgical patients (including immunosuppressed patients).
Within the Trust Mr Herbert leads on transplantation surgical governance and deceased donor transplantation. He is also the Hammersmith foundation training program director.
Biography
Dr Peter Hill is a consultant nephrologist at the West London Renal and Transplant Centre at Hammersmith Hospital. This is the largest renal unit in Europe and specialises in all aspects of renal care. Dr Hill has an interest in hypertension, chronic renal disease and genetic causes of renal disease such as polycystic kidneys and hereditary cancers affecting the kidneys.
He offers clinics in general nephrology, haemodialysis and transplantation as a part of his NHS work. He is the nephrologist for the West London Renal Genetics Clinic. Dr Hill is the clinical lead for interventional nephrology at Hammersmith Hospital and is expert in placing dialysis lines and renal biopsies. He is also part of the renal cancer multidisciplinary team at the Royal Marsden Hospital and offers renal input at the meeting.
Dr Hill also offers local clinic review at other hospitals in west London including Hillingdon, Mount Vernon and Watford General hospitals.
Biography
Professor Jeremy Levy is a leading consultant nephrologist who specialises in chronic kidney disease, glomerulonephritis and immune-mediated renal disease, including vasculitis and HIV with kidney problems.
He is actively involved in teaching and research, writing textbooks on dialysis and nephrology, including the Oxford Handbook of Dialysis, is invited to teach widely around the world.
He serves as director of clinical academic training for Imperial College London and was chair of the UK Renal Association Education and Training Committee.
Biography
Professor Liz Lightstone completed her undergraduate medical training at Cambridge University for preclinical studies (first class degree), followed by clinical studies at King’s College Hospital, London. She was runner up to gold medallist in the University of London (UCL) final MBBS with honours in four subjects.
She completed her clinical training at London teaching hospitals and renal training initially at Guy’s Hospital as a senior house officer (SHO) and subsequently at Hammersmith Hospital as registrar and senior registrar. She undertook a PhD in immunology at the ICRF tumour immunology unit at UCL (PhD awarded 1993) funded by a Medical Research Council (MRC) Training Fellowship. This was followed by an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship in the department of immunology at Hammersmith Hospital.
Professor Lightstone was appointed senior lecturer in renal medicine and honorary consultant physician in 1995. She was appointed reader in 2011 and professor of renal medicine in 2014.