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
Keshwar Baboolal	Consultant Physician and Nephrologist, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
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
Bobbie Farsides	Professor of Clinical and Biomedical Ethics, Brighton & Sussex Medical School
Leslie Hamilton	Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Gurch Randhawa	Professor of Diversity in Public Health and Director, Institute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire
Anthony Warrens	Professor of Renal and Transplantation Medicine, Imperial College London
Eleanor Updale	Writer
Penny Lewis	Professor of Renal and Transplantation Medicine at Imperial College, London
Professor Heather Draper	Reader in Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Department of Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham
Helen Lovell	Secretary

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