Conference: Transplantation Medicine in the Paediatric Context

Farrah Raza is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Public Law at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Farrah was awarded the Minerva Fast Track Fellowship in 2020 and led the Minerva Research Group on the Law of Organ Donation and Transplantation at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department of Law and Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany.

Professor Jonathan Herring focusses on how the law interacts with the important things in life: not money, companies or insurance; but love, friendship and intimacy.  In Vulnerability, Childhood and the Law he has explored the law's conception of childhood vulnerability.  

Sydney recently completed her MPhil in Law at Oxford, researching best interests assessments for patients with anorexia nervosa. She has a strong focus on Medical Law and authors blog posts for the Open Justice Court of Protection Project. She is acting as a Research Assistant for this project. 

Sir Ernest Ryder is the Master of Pembroke College. His previous role was in the United Kingdom Judiciary, as Senior President of Tribunals (their head of jurisdiction) and a Lord Justice of Appeal. He has published and lectured internationally on issues of family law, the role of a modern judiciary, the leadership and governance of justice and cultural conflicts in justice.

Shaun Pattinson is Professor of Medical Law and Ethics at Durham University, UK. He set up Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences) in 2011 and was previously Deputy Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. 

Dr Rebecca Limb is a lecturer in law at the University of Southampton. Rebecca's research is in children's medical law and in particular, children's participation in their healthcare. Rebecca's work engages with participation theory and rights and applies them to medical law dilemmas such as refusals of medical treatment. Her forthcoming monograph details a new model of children's individual participation in decision-making suitable for a healthcare and legal context. 

Professor Verrel is a member of the ethics committees of the Medical Faculty and the Institute of Psychology at the University of Bonn and has been chairman of the Permanent Commission on Organ Transplantation at the German Medical Association since 2019. He is also the managing director of the Criminology Seminar and the Institute for Medical Criminal Law, which was founded in 2021. 

Miranda is a Researcher in Law within the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies ('HeLEX') at the University of Oxford. Her work focuses on privacy, confidentiality and data protection in health and life sciences research. She is currently working with Professor Jane Kaye and Imogen Holbrook on the UK BrainBio project, exploring how donation of tissue for research can be routinely embedded within existing pathways for organ donation.

Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon) is a barrister specialising in mental capacity and healthcare ethics, a Professor of Practice at King’s College London, and (amongst other positions) a member of the BMA Medical Ethics Committee).  He has appeared in the leading post-Human Rights Act 1998 cases regarding the ability of children to make decisions about medical treatment.

Jordan A. Parsons is Associate Professor in Health Law at Royal Holloway University of London. He chairs the UK Kidney Association’s Ethics and Law Committee and has research interests spanning kidney care, organ donation/transplantation, and mental capacity.

Dr Jaime Lindsey is an Associate Professor of Medical Law at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College. She recently completed an ESRC funded project looking at the role of mediation in medical treatment disputes. 

Chris is a consultant kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon at Guy's Hospital in London and is also a paediatric kidney transplant surgeon at the Evelina London Children's Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Dr. Jan Dudley is a practising consultant paediatric nephrologist in Bristol. She was appointed in 2002, having trained in London, Bristol and Paris.

Professor Dr. Thomas Berg is Head of the Division of Hepatology, and Deputy Director of the Department of Medicine II, at the Leipzig University Medical Center, Germany, and Chair of the University Liver Tumor Center, and Vice-Chair of the University Liver Transplant Center Leipzig. 

James Neuberger is a retired consultant physician at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Hon Professor of Medicine; he has extensive experience in organ donation, transplantation and liver disease

Professor Thorburn has worked as a consultant hepatologist since 2003 (initially in the liver unit in Birmingham) and based at the Royal Free since 2007.

Isabel Quiroga (FRCS, DPhil) is a renal and pancreas transplantation, vascular access and endocrine surgery consultant at Oxford University Hospitals. She is the Clinical Lead for Organ Retrieval in Oxford and she stablished the first uterus transplant programme in UK with Imperial College London colleagues.

Dr Briely is Consultant Paediatric Intensive Care & Director of Bioethics at Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London. Chair of the European Board of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care & Lead for EPIC (European Paediatric & Neonatal Intensive Care Diploma)

Professor Engelmann is a research group leader at the European Foundation for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure. He explores disease mechanisms and new targets for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in order to improve patients’ outcomes with liver failure. He is also an Honorary Lecturer at UCL, Division of Medicine. 

Omer Aziz is a Paediatric Intensive Care Consultant at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, and National Paediatric Clinical Lead for Organ Donation. He was previously the Organ Donation lead for the British Islamic Medical Association, and is a founding member of the MAPLE project (Multi-disciplinary Approach to Paediatric End of Life Education). 

Professor Gurch Randhawa is a Professor of Diversity in Public Health and Director of the Institute for Health Research at the University of Bedfordshire, and Director of the UK Organ Donation & Transplant Research Centre. His career has focused on the development of patient-centred care pathways in diabetes, transplantation, and end-of-life care amongst diverse communities.

Dr Sanchez is the Human Rights Lead at the National Secular Society, an NGO in London. He is a former NHS doctor and has an MA in Medical Ethics and Law from King’s College London. 

Professor Jones is a professor of Bioethics at St Mary's University, Twickenham.

Rabbi Yehuda Pink MSc is the author of Medicine and Morals, Convenor of the West Midlands Jewish Medical Ethics Forum. His work guides healthcare professionals, patients, and communities in making ethically sound, faith-informed decisions.

Dr Teal is the chaplain at Pembroke College, Oxford, as well as a fellow and lecturer in theology. His research interests include parasitic and modern theology, theology and the arts, and theology and frontier spirituality. 

Chair of the Jain and Hindu Organ Donation Alliance | Award-winning advocate and communications leader.

A living kidney donor and passionate campaigner, Prafula inspires awareness and action for organ donation across the UK, particularly within the Asian communities. An NHS Blood and Transplant Ambassador, she combines lived experience with professional expertise to educate, empower, and save lives.