Deirdre A Kelly Professor, MD, FAASLD

Biography

Professor Deirdre Kelly is Professor of Paediatric Hepatology at the University of Birmingham and Founding Director of the Liver Unit for Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin.
She set up the Paediatric Liver Unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital in 1989 which provides a national and international service for children with liver failure and undergoing liver transplantation, transforming survival and outcome for these children. Until 2008, the Unit was the only national unit to be designated for small bowel and liver transplantation in the UK.
She is the national Clinical Lead for the UK Paediatric Hepatitis C network. She is on the Board of Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Hospital and chairs the Evelina Women and Children's Clinical Group.
She has been President of the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) (2006-2010), British Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN) (2004-2007) and the International Paediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) (2002-2005).
Professor Kelly is author of several textbooks about paediatric liver disease and has published many original articles and chapters on liver disease, liver transplantation and viral hepatitis.