Mr Francis Calder

Mr Francis Calder is a Senior Consultant Transplant and Dialysis Access Surgeon, based at Guy's and St Thomas', King's College and Great Ormond Street Hospitals and he also sees patients privately, including at The London Bridge Hospital. He specialist interests include in living donation, paediatric transplantation and vascular access.

Mr Calder has played a leading role in the development of adult vascular access services in South London and in paediatric dialysis access for the UK. He has been involved in many major trials in new vascular access technologies and has co-authored the first European guidelines for Paediatric Dialysis Access. He sits on the council of the Vascular Access Society of Great Britain & Ireland and the NHSBT Kidney advisory Paediatric sub group. He is also a member of the court of examiners of RCS England.

He has a long-term commitment to medical education, having contributed to the MRCS curriculum and in development of the Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient programme. He is also a faculty member for the Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons course. Mr Calder is also a keen advocate for human factors and non-technical skills in healthcare. This includes being a consultant in Human Factors training to the Simulation and Interactive Learning centre (SaIL) at Guy's and St Thomas', King's College and University of London.

• Vascular Surgery
• Kidney Transplant

• Paediatric Transplantation
• Living Donation
• Vascular access in children and adults