- Roy Yorke Calne
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name = Sir Roy Yorke Calne
caption = A bronze bust of Sir Roy holding a liver, outside the main operating theatres atAddenbrooke's Hospital
birth_date = bda|1930|12|30
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profession =Surgeon
specialism =Organ transplantation
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years_active = 1959 -
education =Lancing College ((formerly College of St Mary and St Nicholas)Lancing, West Sussex England
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relations =Sir Roy Yorke Calne, FRS is a British
surgeon and pioneer inorgan transplantation ; he performed the firstliver transplantation operation in Europe in 1968. His surgical procedures also laid claim to many other pioneering successes in his career: the world's first liver, heart, and lung transplant in 1987; the first intestinal transplant in the U.K. in 1992, and the first successful combined stomach, intestine, pancreas, liver, and kidney cluster transplant in 1994. [citation|first=Amir|last=Amirani|title=Sir Roy Calne Pursues Higher Tolerance in Transplantatione|date=|publisher=The Thomson Corporation|url=http://www.sciencewatch.com/interviews/sir_roy_calne.htm|journal=Science Watch|date=May 1995|accessdate=2008-08-01]Calne is a
fellow of the Royal Society and was Professor of Surgery at Cambridge University between 1965 and 1968 where he initiated the kidney transplant program.cite journal|title=Sir Roy Calne to give Strauss Lecture|journal=University Week|publisher=University of Washington |volume=15|issue=No.35|year=1998|date=1998-08-20|accessdate=2008-08-01|url=http://depts.washington.edu/uweek/archives/1998.08.AUG_20/_article14.html] . He wasHarkness Fellow atHarvard Medical School from 1960-61 [http://www.theprivategallery.com/artist_calne.html]Much of his subsequent work focused on the improvement of immunosuppression techniques aimed at prolonging the life of liver transplant recipients. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1974 and knighted
Knight Bachelor , in 1986.His portrait commissioned by the National Potrtrait Gallery, was painted by
John Bellany CBE, RA in 1991.
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