Professor

Professor

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 Roger Stanley Williams, CBE

Order of the British Empire

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is a British medical doctor, specialising in hepatology

Hepatology

Hepatology is the branch of medicine that incorporates the study of liver, gallbladder, biliary tree, and pancreas as well as management of their disorders. Etymologically the word Hepatology is formed of ancient Greek hepar or hepato- meaning ' liver' and suffix -logia meaning 'word' or 'speech'...

 (treatment of the liver

Liver

The liver is a vital organ present in vertebrates and some other animals. It has a wide range of functions, including detoxification, protein synthesis, and production of biochemicals necessary for digestion...

). He is currently Director of the Institute of Hepatology, once part of University College London

University College London

University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...

, and now private research Institute supported by the Foundation for Liver Research (http://www.liver-research.org.uk/, since July 1, 2010).

Williams was part of the medical team that performed the first liver transplant in the UK in 1968. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25869-1895760,00.html

He is recently well known for treating Northern Irish footballer George Best

George Best

George Best was a professional footballer from Northern Ireland, who played for Manchester United and the Northern Ireland national team. He was a winger whose game combined pace, acceleration, balance, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to beat defenders...

, who suffered various liver ailments after a battle with alcoholism

Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing...

. Williams supervised a liver transplant

Liver transplantation

Liver transplantation or hepatic transplantation is the replacement of a diseased liver with a healthy liver allograft. The most commonly used technique is orthotopic transplantation, in which the native liver is removed and replaced by the donor organ in the same anatomic location as the original...

on Best in 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1702266.stm. Best died in 2005.

Professor Williams attended St Marys College as a child between 1945–1949.