ODT Medical Team

ODT Medical Director's Communication

Read the latest bulletin update from Professor John Forsythe.

About the ODT Medical Team

The Organ Donation and Transplantation (ODT) Medical Team are a group of clinicians holding substantive or honorary contracts with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) to provide clinical leadership and input into NHSBT management. As well as having areas of responsibility the group also attend the ODT Senior Management Team strategic meetings and a number of the Advisory Groups on an ad-hoc basis.

The ODT Medical Team is led by Professor John Forsythe, the Medical Director of OTDT and includes the following members:

Dr Dale Gardiner

Associate Medical Director – Deceased Organ Donation.

Consultant in Intensive Care at Nottingham University Hospitals.

Leads the network of UK clinical leads for organ donation
Provides strategic leadership to the organ donation community both within and beyond ODT
Provides advice and support to colleagues and contributes to other projects within NHSBT as appropriate
Liaises with external stakeholders to ensure their engagement with TOT2020
Supports the Organ Donation Regional Collaboratives as a mechanism for improvement in donation and utilisation
Chairs the National Organ Donation Committee

Mr John Asher

National Clinical Lead for Health Informatics.

Consultant Transplant Surgeon at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow.

To provide the link between medical staff in donation/ retrieval/ transplantation and IT
To provide the main route of communication between NHSBT and the medical community on progress/ developments in IT
Consult with medical staff on requirements/ concerns relating to IT and feedback

Mr Chris Callaghan

Professor Derek Manas

Associate Medical Director – Clinical Governance, Retrieval and Transplantation.

Professor of HPB and Transplant Surgery, The Freeman Hospital, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

To establish effective working relationships with key external and internal stakeholders
To support optimal and safe use of donated organs from deceased and live donors
To support the development of procedures, processes and guidelines that will lead to consistent and high quality, safer patient and clinical care

Dr Richard Baker

Joint National Clinical Lead for Governance.

Consultant Renal Physician and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Renal Unit St James University Hospital, Leeds.

To ensure incidents are reported and investigated, and ensure lessons learnt from incidents are shared amongst those pivotal to the donation, organ retrieval and transplant pathway
To support NHSBT to maintain and develop an effective clinical governance system
To work with the Clinical Governance Team ODT

Mr Ian Currie

UK Clinical Lead - Organ Retrieval.

Lead Clinician, SORT Consultant Surgeon, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

To lead and help develop a high quality, sustainable, national organ retrieval service
Provide clinical guidance and support in the commissioning of organ retrieval
Ensure continued maintenance and improvement of quality standards to ensure all organs are safely retrieved for the purpose of transplantation

Mr Marius Berman

Associate UK Clinical Lead - Organ Retrieval.

Consultant Surgeon, Royal Papworth Hospital, London.

To assist the UK Clinical Lead - Organ Retrieval lead and help develop a high quality, sustainable, national organ retrieval service
Provide clinical leadership for the investigation and management of clinical incidents related to organ retrieval
Ensure continued maintenance and improvement of quality standards to ensure all organs are safely retrieved for the purpose of transplantation

In this section

Useful links

External links

NICE Guidance on Organ Donation