Meet the team

The OrQA-UK trial is a collaboration between patients, researchers and clinical teams in organ donation and transplant.

Our investigator team 

Professor Colin Wilson - Chief Investigator

Consultant Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgeon at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

George Kourounis

Specialist Registrar in General Surgery & Associate Lecturer at Newcastle University

Sofia Kazerouni

Clinical Research Associate

Our CTU team 

Kerrie Brusby

Clinical Operations Manager

Charlotte Hickman

Clinical Trial Manager

Lauren Ogden

Senior Clinical Trial Administrator

Katie Keen

Quality Project specialist

Cara Hudson

Principal Statistician

Laura Smith

Senior Statistician

Laura Silsby

Statistician II

Our PPI team 

Kate Pym

Facilitator for Patient and Public Involvement & Engagement

Joan Bedlington

PPI patient representative

Jackie Leach Scully

Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Disability Innovation Institute at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

OrQA technical team 

Kate Court

Senior Research Software Engineer

Medical Device Regulation Consultant

Bryan Lister

Medical Device consultant, InViva Digital Healthcare