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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 Andrew Frankel was appointed consultant nephrologist to the renal unit at Charing Cross Hospital in November 1995 and works at the Imperial Renal and Transplant Centre, which is one of the largest renal units in Europe catering for a population base of over three million.
He has had a long term interest in the pathogenesis and management of diabetic renal disease and leads the diabetic renal clinical research group at the Imperial Renal and Transplant Centre.
Dr Frankel and his colleagues have investigated and published papers examining why patients with diabetic nephropathy progress or remain stable. They have also published work on the factors associated with the increased cardiovascular risk present in diabetic patients with CKD and on the use of novel therapies for patients with diabetes and progressive kidney disease.
Dr Frankel has led on work (alongside his colleagues with an interest in diabetes) to better understand how patients with both diabetes and CKD stages three to five should be managed in the modern environment, where the nature of the risks and issues relating to glycaemic control are better understood and in which the treatment options for these patients has expanded.
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.
Biography
Dr Adam McLean undertook his medical training at Oxford and at the London Hospital. He then completed renal training at Guy’s, The Royal Free and Oxford.
Additional languages spoken: French