Consultant Nephrologist, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
Jennifer has been a consultant nephrologist at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust since 2011. She qualified from Queen's University Belfast and did her postgraduate training in Northern Ireland and at Vancouver General Hospital where she developed her special interest in vascular access. She has an interest in all aspects of interventional radiology and works closely with renal surgeons and interventional radiologists. She is keen on a collaborative approach to working for patients benefit in challenging and complex vascular access cases.
Mr Gavin Pettigrew
University Reader in Clinical and Experimental Transplantation
I am a reader in clinical and experimental transplantation within the department, having received a clinician scientist award from the Health Foundation in 2003. My research interests focus on the basic science of transplant rejection, with particular emphasis on how the specialised immune cells of the recipient – the T and B lymphocytes – coordinate in the development of antibody. We are increasingly aware that, after transplantation, the development of antibody directed against the transplant is associated with early failure of the transplant. Hence, a better understanding of how antibody develops will allow us to develop new strategies that aim to prevent the development of antibody, and in doing so, prolong transplant survival.