Andrew is a consultant transplant surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He specialises in Kidney, Pancreas and Islet Cell transplantation as well as laparoscopic living donor nephrectomies.  He is clinical lead of the Scottish Pancreas Transplant Unit and is a National Research Scotland clinician and MRC CARP fellow.  Andrew graduated from Edinburgh Medical School in 1999 before embarking on his basic and higher surgical training in Oxford. During this time he completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford researching how ‘Hypoxia Inducible Factor’ can protect organs from ischaemia-reperfusion injury.

He then moved back to Edinburgh in 2012 to finish his higher surgical training and was appointed a consultant in 2016.  It is during this time that he joined the team pioneering normothermic regional perfusion in Edinburgh.  His research interests include ischaemia reperfusion injury, ischaemic preconditioning and novel technologies in organ preservation.