Anthony J. Clarkson

Anthony Clarkson qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1994, specialising in Head and Neck Surgery. In 1997 he moved to work in the National Blood Service initially in both Blood and Live Tissue Donation. In 2000 he expanded his role to include Deceased Tissue Donation, travelling to the USA to become a Certified Tissue Banking Specialist. In 2005 he took on a national role managing all aspects of Tissue Donation and the Professional Leadership for the UK Eye Retrieval Scheme. Gaining an MSc in Management Development he went on to become the Head of Clinical Development before taking up his current post as Assistant Director for Organ Donation in 2009. As Assistant Director for Organ Donation and Nursing Anthony manages the 12 regional teams of Specialist Nurses in Organ Donation who facilitate deceased organ donation across the UK. In 2013 Organ Donation achieved its target of a 50% increase in deceased donor rates and is now working to implement the strategy set out in ‘Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020’ which seeks to build upon that landmark success and save and improve even more lives.

Mr Stephen Large
 
Stephen Large was appointed to Papworth Hospital in 1989 with a specialist interest in surgery for ventricular tachycardia. His early interest in medical student education led to a Cambridge University appointment as Associate Lecturer in the Department of Medicine and on to become clinical sub-dean for cardiac and thoracic services. He was awarded the diploma of Physician as Educator- RCP by the Royal College of Physicians in 2001 after becoming a fellow five years earlier. He ran the heart transplant service from appointment to the end of 2008 developing the national mechanical heart assist programme in 2001 through his particular interest in the failing human heart. His research interest lies in this area and his team are pursuing the possibilities of expanding the human donor heart pool through collaboration with the clinical transplant team in Cambridge, Stanford University, California and the Canadian Research Centre in Winnipeg. An additional fascination with management led him to achieve an MBA through the Open University in 2000 and to chair the Cardiac Directorate for five years until 2007. He now represents the speciality on the Interventional Advisory Committee of NICE, the HTA Interventional committee and is lead investigator of HTA observational study ETTAA (5 years from July 2013 value £1.7 million)

Marian Ryan
 
Marian Ryan qualified as a registered nurse in 1989. Following a period working in Australia in 1992 she returned to the UK and specialised in intensive care nursing. Marian worked as a senior nurse in a busy London hospital specialising in trauma and cardiothoracic critical care before joining the transplant teams at Papworth and Addenbrookes hospitals in Cambridge as a donor transplant coordinator in 1997. In 2006 she took the role of team manager for the Eastern donor transplant coordinator team. Marian has been in her current post in NHS blood and transplant as a Regional Manger since 2012, she has management and operational responsibility for 3 regional specialist nurse teams, London, South East and Eastern.