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Presenter: Gabriel, Oniscu, Edinburgh, UK
Authors: Gabriel Oniscu
Gabriel Oniscu graduated from the University of Medicine of Iasi, Romania. He has completed his higher surgical training in Edinburgh, Birmingham and King’s College Hospital, London with a living donor fellowship in Seoul, Korea. He obtained an MD from the University of Edinburgh.
Mr. Oniscu is a consultant transplant surgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Edinburg and is involved in liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation. He is the lead clinician for the living donor kidney transplant programme and has developed the single port approach for living kidney donation in the UK. Mr. Oniscu also leads the development of novel perfusion technologies in Edinburgh.
He has a strong clinical research interest and has been awarded the prestigious NRS Career Research Fellowship and two MRC grants relating to normothermic organ perfusion. He is a lead investigator in several UK studies including the NIHR funded study investigating access to transplantation and transplant outcome measures (ATTOM). He is also the chief investigator for the UK DCD Normothermic regional perfusion service evaluation programme.
Mr. Oniscu chairs the Research, Innovation and Novel Technologies Advisory Group at NHSBT and the British Transplantation Society Clinical Trials committee. He is a Councilor of the European Society for Organ Transplantation and member of the Executive Committee for ESOT Congress 2017. He also sits in the UK Pancreas Advisory Board, the communication committee of the International Liver Transplantation Society and Scientific Programme Committee for ESOT 2017 AND TTS 2015 Congresses.
He is the editor of Abdominal Organ retrieval and bench surgery textbook and of the forthcoming Springer Atlas of Transplantation.
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