UKDEC Members

The Chair and members of the UKDEC were appointed following an open competition.

The UKDEC is hosted by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, with funding provided by the UK Health Departments.

Sir Peter Simpson Chair
Paula Aubrey Regional Manager, NHS Blood and Transplant
Joe Brierley Consultant Paediatrician, Paediatric & Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Great Ormond St Hospital, London
Graham Brushett Lay member, heart and kidney transplant recipient
Stephen Cole NHS Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee
Antonia Cronin Clinical Research Consultant Nephrologist, Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Heather Draper Professor in Biomedical Ethics University of Birmingham
Bobbie Farsides Professor of Clinical and Biomedical Ethics, Brighton & Sussex Medical School
Dale Gardiner Consultant in Adult Critical Care, Nottingham University Hospitals
Amanda Gibbon Lay member, Kidney donor
Leslie Hamilton Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Penney Lewis Professor of Law, School of Law and Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King College London
Muireann Quigley Lecturer in Bioethics, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University Manchester
Gurch Randhawa Professor of Diversity in Public Health and Director, Institute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire
Eleanor Updale Lay member, Author
Anthony Warrens Dean for Education, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Professor of Renal & Transplantation Medicine, Honorary Consultant Physician
Helen Lovell Secretary

Observers from the UK Health Departments, NHS Blood and Transplant and the Human Tissue Authority may also attend meetings.

Register of members interests