Health
Roger Williams obituary – The Guardian
Physician who created the UK’s first liver transplant programme and worked with George Best to highlight the dangers of alcohol
The six-decade career of Roger Williams, who has died at the age of 88 after suffering a heart attack, lay at the heart of an astonishing transformation in liver medicine.
In 1968, while a hepatologist at Kings College hospital in London, he teamed up with the Cambridge surgeon Roy Calne to form the Cambridge-Kings transplant programme and carry out the UKs first liver transplant.
Williams knew that if your kidneys fail, dialysis can keep you alive, but there is no comparable lifeline if your …
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