The Liver Unit

Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Contacts

Paediatric Hepatologists Contact Via Secretary 0121 333 8250

Professor Deirdre Kelly Professor of Paediatric Hepatology

Deirdre.Kelly@bch.nhs.uk

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Deirdre Kelly was born in Calcutta, India and educated in Ireland. She is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. She trained in adult gastroenterology and hepatology and paediatric hepatology in Ireland, the U K and the USA. She set up the Liver Unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital in 1989 and developed it into an international unit. Her special clinical interests are caring for children with all forms of liver disease, but especially viral hepatitis.

Her research interests include pathophysiology of bile duct development, molecular genetics of inherited liver disease; treatment of viral hepatitis; immunosuppression and quality and outcome of life following liver transplantation. She is also the Medical Director of Birmingham Children's Hospital. She is married with two sons and her hobbies are gardening, hill walking and entertaining family and friends.

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Dr Patrick McKiernanConsultant Paediatric Hepatologist

Pat.Mckiernan@bch.nhs.uk

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Patrick McKiernan is married with five children. He trained in medicine and paediatrics in Belfast. He then came to Birmingham to work in the liver unit in 1991 and liked it so much that he has stayed here ever since.

As well as the normal clinical work in the liver unit he has a special interest in inherited metabolic liver disease and portal hypertension. He also carries out a number of paediatric hepatology outreach clinics around the country.

His research interests include portal hypertension, novel endoscopic techniques, non-invasive markers of hepatic fibrosis, immunosuppression and metabolic liver disease.

Outside work his family keeps him very busy and he tries to keep fit and sane by cycling.

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Dr Sue BeathConsultant Paediatric Hepatologist

Sue.Beath@bch.nhs.uk

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Graduated from London 1983 appointed Consultant Paediatric Hepatologist at Birmingham Children’s Hospital in 1995.

Research interests include absorption of dietary lipids including polyunsaturated fats; quality of life after transplantation including growth and developmental outcome.

Special interests include: intestinal transplantation; patterns and causes of liver dysfunction in patients with intestinal failure; novel methods for detecting rejection in the small bowel allograft.

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Dr Indra Van MourikConsultant Paediatric Hepatologist

Indra.Vanmourik@bch.nhs.uk

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Indra Van Mourik was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Amsterdam and qualified in 1988. She came over to the UK in 1989 where she continued her General Paediatric training and later trained in paediatric gastroenterology and hepatology. She joined the team at the Liver Unit in Birmingham first in 1995 as a trainee and clinical research fellow, and returned in 2001 to take up her post as consultant.

As well as the normal clinical work of the Liver Unit she has a special interest in patients with Cystic Fibrosis associated Liver Disease. In addition to regular outpatients work at Birmingham Children’s Hospital She carries out 4 outreach clinics per year in Cardiff.

Her research interests include cystic fibrosis associated liver disease and Immunosuppression.

Indra lives with her husband and son in Birmingham and enjoys to cycle. Although she misses cycling around the canals in Amsterdam and her “Dutch Bike” she thoroughly enjoys life in the UK.

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Dr Ulrich BaumannConsultant Paediatric Hepatologist

Ulrich.Baumann@bch.nhs.uk

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Ulrich Baumann was born in Germany and read Medicine at the Georg-August-University in Goettingen. It was there that he developed an interest in hepatology and did an MD thesis in adult hepatology. He trained in General Paediatrics in Germany and went on to Birmingham for a two year research break on liver stem cells with Professor Deirdre Kelly and Professor Alastair Strain.

After almost 7 years back in Germany, where he worked in the transplant centre of the University of Essen, he came back to Birmingham for another brief interval. This brief interval is ongoing since, his family of four has settled well into Brummie life and Ulrich has become a permanent member of the team.

His special interests are liver growth and repair, metabolic liver disease (in particular non-alcoholic fatty liver disease), portal hypertension and endoscopy.

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Dr Girish GupteConsultant Paediatric Hepatologist

Girish.Gupte@bch.nhs.uk

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Girish Gupte finished his undergraduate and postgraduate studies (M.D. paediatrics) from India and came to UK for higher specialist training. He received his training in paediatric gastroenterology and hepatology in Birmingham and was appointed as a consultant in 2004.

His special interests include improving outcome of intestinal transplantation in children, host immune response to EBV related infections, non-invasive markers of small bowel rejection.

His is married with one daughter and enjoys spending time with his family and friends.

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Surgical Consultants Contact Via Secretary 0121 333 8264

Professor Alastair MillarProfessor of Paediatric Transplant Surgery

alastair.millar@bch.nhs.uk

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Alastair Millar qualified in Medicine at the University of Cape Town (1972) and trained in General and Paediatric Surgery in the UK, South Africa and Australia. Increasingly focussing on liver surgery and transplantation over the last 15 years as Professor and Principal Specialist at Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Cape Town. He pioneered Paediatric Liver Transplantation in South Africa.

He also has extensive experience in the separation of Conjoined Twins, Paediatric Trauma, Gastrointestinal Surgery, Neonatal Surgery, and Surgical Oncology. He took up appointment at Birmingham Children’s Hospital in 2004 as Paediatric Transplantation and Hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgical lead.

Alastair is married with three children and in his spare time he enjoys fencing, hiking, travelling and reading about medical history.

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Mr David Mayer (UHB)Consultant Paediatric Surgeon

david.mayer@uhb.nhs.uk

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Mr Darius Mirza (UHB)Consultant Paediatric Surgeon

darius.mirza@uhb.nhs.uk

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Darius Mirza studied Medicine at the University of Bombay. After early surgical training in India and a two year Transplant Fellowship at the University of Vienna Hospital, he came to Birmingham in 1991 to train further in adult and paediatric transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery. He was appointed as Consultant Transplant Surgeon at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1996 before moving back to Birmingham when appointed Consultant Transplant/HPBsurgeon at the Queen Elizabeth and Children’s Hospitals, Birmingham in 1997.

In addition to liver transplantation, his clinical and research interests lie in the areas of “marginal” donors, technical innovations (split livers, transplantation for intestinal failure), biliary strictures and metastatic liver cancer. He has been an active member of several national and European committees including: Secretary of the European Liver Transplantation Association (ELTA), British Association of Study of the Liver (BASL), UKT Liver Advisory Group, national steering group for colorectal liver metastases and lead surgical author for the "National Plan for Liver Services" document.

He is married with one son, and his interests include playing and watching cricket, tennis, running, cooking, and travelling.