Professor Deirdre Kelly

Deirdre is Professor of Paediatric Hepatology at Birmingham Children's Hospital and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. She has trained in both adult and paediatric gastroenterology and hepatology. She set up the Paediatric Liver Unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital which provides a national and international service for children with liver failure and undergoing liver transplantation. Up until 2009, the unit was the only national unit to be designated for small bowel and liver transplantation in the UK.

Professor Kelly runs an active research programme focussing on viral hepatitis in children, molecular genetics of inherited liver disease, quality and outcome of life following liver and/or intestinal transplantation.

She was Medical Director of the Children's Hospital (2000-2007), a Commissioner on the Healthcare Commission (2007-2009) and has been a Commissioner of the Care Quality Commission since 2008.

Deirdre has been a Member of the Advisory Committee on the Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (SABTO) since 2008. She is a member of the Advisory Group on Hepatitis (2010-).  She established and was Chair of the Birmingham Children’s Hospital Ethics Advisory Group (2003-2010). She has been President of the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) (2006-2010) and President of the British Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN) (2004-2007) and the International Paediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) (2002-2005). She was Chairman of the Lunar Society (2007-2009).