John O’Callaghan has successfully defended his thesis entitled “Evidence based hypothermic preservation of the kidney and liver for transplantation” and has now been notified that he has been awarded the DPhil degree. His work in this area has been outstanding and he has produced a number of critically important papers arising from the work of […]
Simon Knight was appointed as an Academic Clinical Lecturer within the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences which will allow him more time for his research activities during his continuing surgical training. John O’Callaghan secured a numbered training post in surgery (ST3) within the Oxford Deanery and will commence this appointment later this year. By this time he expect […]
We have recently completed a systematic review of preservation solutions for the static cold storage of kidney allografts (this was presented at the recent ESOT meeting and has been accepted for publication subject to satisfactory revision). We used MEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library and the Transplant Library to perform the literature search. Searches combined MeSH […]
John O’Callaghan has been appointed as a clinical research fellow jointly between the CET and the Oxford Transplant Unit. As well as clinical duties with the Oxford Transplant Unit, he will be leading a systematic review of organ preservation in transplantation. This review will be a collaborative project between the CET and the Cochrane Renal […]