Darius MS, FRCS

Darius F Mirza, MS, FRCS was appointed Consultant HPB and Transplant Surgeon in 1996, after specialist training in Vienna and Birmingham. His main areas of interest in liver transplantation include the use of extended criteria donors, surgical innovation (liver splitting, segmental grafts), and paediatric transplantation (liver, bowel, multivisceral). In the field of HPB surgery his interest lies in major liver and pancreatic resectional surgery for primary and secondary cancer, bile duct strictures and paediatric resections.

He was Clinical Service Lead (CSL) for Liver Surgery at the QE site, overseeing a team of 11 Consultant Surgeons from 2012-2014, working across two sites. In 2013, he was appointed to an Honorary Chair in Hepatobiliary Surgery and Transplantation by the University of Birmingham and is currently the Clinical Academic Lead for Transplantation at the Institute for Translational Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. He has recently (2015) been elected the founding Chair of the British Liver Transplant Group (BLTG). During his 25+ year career in HPB surgery and transplantation, he has contributed to several learned society committees and NHSBT offices including: Liver Advisory Group representative for Birmingham, the founding chair of the Liver Intestine Subgroup, and the founding Chair of the Bowel Advisory Group to NHSBT (2010). He is also the Lead Cancer Clinician for HPB surgery. He was also elected for a term as Secretary of the European Liver and Intestinal Transplant Association (ELITA/ESOT) and co-organised the 13th Intestinal Transplant Association symposium in Oxford (2013).