Roger Williams (hepatologist)

Professor Roger Stanley Williams, CBE is a British medical doctor, specialising in hepatology (treatment of the liver). He is currently Director of the Institute of Hepatology, once part of University College London, and now private research Institute supported by the Foundation for Liver Research. Williams was part of the medical team that performed the first liver transplant in the UK in 1968. [1]

He is recently well known for treating Northern Irish footballer George Best, who suffered various liver ailments after a battle with alcoholism. Williams supervised a liver transplant on Best in 2002. [2]. Best died in 2005.

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

References

• Best in line for liver transplant, BBC News, 10 December 2001.
• Goodbody, John: Best battles to the end, The Times, 25 November 2005.