Roger Williams (hepatologist)

Professor Roger Stanley Williams CBE FRCS FRCP FRCPE FRACP FMedSci (b. 28 Aug 1931)[1] is a British medical doctor specialising in hepatology (treatment of pathalogical conditions of the liver).[2][3] He is currently Director of the Institute of Hepatology, an independent research organisation supported by the Foundation for Liver Research, a UK registered charity which he set up in 1973. The Institute of Hepatology is self standing and affiliated to Birkbeck College, University of London. In January 2014, the Trustees of the Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with King's College Hospital and King's College London and the Foundation is now in the process of buying a plot of land on the King's campus on which a new Institute will be built. This new Institute will be part of KCL.

Roger Williams was part of the medical team that performed the first liver transplant in the UK in 1968. Today, he continues to be active and he administers an extensive programme of research at the Institute of Hepatology, led by four principal investigators, Salvatore Papa, Wing Kin Syn, Shilpa Chokshi and Jane I. Cox.

He is known for treating Northern Irish footballer George Best, who suffered various liver ailments after a battle with alcoholism. Williams supervised a liver transplant on Best in 2002. . Best died in 2005, despite Williams teams treatments.

Professor Williams attended St Mary's College as a child between 1945–1949. He trained at the London Hospital Medical College, University of London.

Since 2010 Professor Williams, aged 83, has been a Visiting Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, exploiting a generous funding from the Saudi Biomarkers Research Programme. He has been honoured with a number of awards over the years, notable the Lifetime Achievement Awards including one from the British Association for the Study of the Liver (2003) and the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Association for the Study of the Liver (2013).

References

  1. ↑ "Birthdays". The Guardian (Guardian News & Media). 28 Aug 2014. p. 35.
  2. ↑ http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/9437/Roger-Stanley-WILLIAMS
  3. ↑ ‘WILLIAMS, Prof. Roger Stanley’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, Nov 2014 accessed 9 Feb 2015
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