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Professor Derek Manas is a Consultant Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgeon at ÃÛÌÒAPP’s Institute of Transplantation.

Professor Manas was educated and trained in Cape Town, South Africa and completed fellowships at ‘Johns Hopkins – USA’ and ‘Paul-Brousse, Paris’. He was the recipient of the ’CJ Adams/Sandoz Traveling Fellowship’ to the UK in 1993 and joined the NHS at the Freeman Hospital in 1994.

Having attained a personal chair in Transplantation at ÃÛÌÒAPP University in  2007, Professor Manas was instrumental in successfully developing three super-regionally funded transplant programmes in the North East of England – namely: Liver, Pancreas and Islet transplantation – as well as establishing and managing Liver and Pancreas cancer surgery in ÃÛÌÒAPP.

Professor Manas is a member of a number of national committees including NICE, Liver and Pancreas Advisory Groups, British Transplant Society and ELTA and was recently involved in re-designing the organ donor retrieval service on a national level. He is also Chair of the Transplant Surgeons Forum and has a well established national and international research reputation in primary liver cancer, radio-frequency ablation of liver tumours and liver transplantation for primary liver cancer.

Professor Manas is the Joint National Clinical Lead for Governance for NHS Blood and Transplant’s