Background
Williams, Roger Stanley was born on August 28, 1931 in Beckenham, Kent, England. Son of Stanley George and Doris Dagmar (Clatworthy) Williams.
Williams, Roger Stanley was born on August 28, 1931 in Beckenham, Kent, England. Son of Stanley George and Doris Dagmar (Clatworthy) Williams.
Bachelor of Science with honors, U. London Hospital Medical School, 1953; Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, U. London Hospital Medical School, 1957; Doctor of Medicine, U. London Hospital Medical School, 1960; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, U. London Hospital Medical School, 1966; FRCPE, U. London Hospital Medical School, 1990; FRACP, U. London Hospital Medical School, 1991; FACP (honorary), 1992.
He is currently Director of the Institute of Hepatology, an independent research organisation supported by the Foundation for Liver Research, a United Kingdom registered charity which he set up in 1973. The Institute of Hepatology is self standing and affiliated to Birkbeck College, University of London. In January 2014, the Trustees of the Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with King"s College Hospital and King"s College London and the Foundation is now in the process of buying a plot of land on the King"s campus on which a new Institute will be built.
This new Institute will be part of KCL. Roger Williams was part of the medical team that performed the first liver transplant in the United Kingdom in 1968.
Today, he continues to be active and he administers an extensive programme of research at the Institute of Hepatology, led by four principal investigators, Salvatore Papa, Wing Kin Syn, Shilpa Chokshi and Jane I. Cox. He is known for treating Northern Irish football player George Best, who suffered various liver ailments after a battle with alcoholism.
Williams supervised a liver transplant on Best in 2002. Best died in 2005, despite Williams teams treatments.
Professor Williams attended Street Mary"s College as a child between 1945–1949.
He trained at the London Hospital Medical College, University of London. Since 2010 Professor Williams, aged 83, has been a Visiting Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, exploiting a generous funding from the Saudi Biomarkers Research Programme.
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Member Conservative Medical Society (Executive Committee 1991, chairman 1994), Royal College Physicians (2d vice president 1991), Saints & Sinners Club London, Royal Ocean Racing Club, Royal Yacht Squadron, Carlton Club.
Married Lindsey Mary Elliott (divorced 1977). Children: Fiona, Robert, Anne, Deborah, Andrew. Married Stephanie Gay de Laszlo, 1978.
Children: Clemency, Aiden, Octavia.