Council Member Profiles

Professor Andrew Bradley, President

Professor Andrew Bradley is Professor of Surgery and Head of the Department of Surgery at the University of Cambridge. He is an Honorary Consultant Surgeon and Clinical Director of Transplantation at Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge. After qualifying MB ChB in Leeds (1975), he undertook surgical training in Leeds and Glasgow where he completed a PhD before appointment as a NHS Consultant Surgeon at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow.

In 1994 he was appointed Professor of Surgery and Immunology at the University of Glasgow, before moving to the Chair of Surgery in Cambridge in 1997. He is a Fellow and past Member of Council of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Past President of the British Transplantation Society and the British Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, and past secretary and treasurer of the International Transplantation Society He is a Trustee of Kidney Research UK and of the Roche Organ Transplant Foundation. His research interests range from basic aspects of transplant immunology to the clinical evaluation of novel immunosuppressive agents and investigation of the donor and recipient factors that influence outcome after kidney transplantation. He is Editor of the journal Transplantation and Associate Editor of the American Journal of Transplantation and chairs the Kidney Transplantation Advisory Group at NHS Blood and Transplant.

Professor C Shearman, President-Elect

Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Southampton. Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Professor Shearman qualified from Guys Hospital Medical School London University and trained in vascular surgery in Birmingham. He was appointed as a senior lecturer/consultant vascular surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham in 1990. In 1994 he moved to Southampton as a NHS Consultant Vascular Surgeon and in 1999 was appointed to the Chair of Vascular Surgery at the University of Southampton.

Professor Shearman currently works in a busy vascular unit which undertakes most vascular and endovascular treatments of arterial and venous disease. The unit serves a local population of 1.2 million people. His research programme is largely directed at determining factors that promote the progression of vascular disease, both environmental and genetic, and how these might be modified particularly in diabetes.

He is currently Associate Medical Director for R and D. He was on the Council and Chairman of the Training and Education Committee of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and President of the Society (2009-10) he was appointed head of the Wessex Post Graduate School of Surgery in 2007.