Invited Faculty - Andrew Ready

Andrew Ready is Senior Consultant Renal Transplant Surgeon at the University Hospital Birmingham, UK. In addition, he is Honorary Consultant Surgeon at both Birmingham Children's Hospital and Belfast City Hospital, Northern Ireland. 

Dr Ready trained in Medicine at Birmingham Medical School and during his postgraduate training gained Masters and Doctorate degrees for research into aspects of transplant immunology before undertaking a period as a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, USA. 

Since 2007 he has been Medical Director and Chairman of Transplant Links Community (TLC) - an organization dedicated to facilitating renal transplantation in the developing world. In this role he has lead teams performing renal transplants in Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt and Trinidad as well leading advisory visits to units in Nepal, Jamaica and Kenya.