Dr Richard Parker

 Professional experience

• More than 15 years of experience
• Consultant hepatologist, Spire Leeds Hospital (2024 – present)
• Consultant hepatologist and transplant physician at the Leeds Liver Unit of St James's University Hopsitals Leeds, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (2017 – present)

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 Sub-specialties

• Abnormal liver function test
• Alcohol-used dsorder
• Autoimmune liver disease

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 Positions in public associations

• Lead, BASL Special Interest Group for Alchol-related liver disease
• Lead, North of England Alcohol Team Research Partnership (National Institute for Health and Care Research funded)
• Visiting research scientist, National Institutes of Health in Washington D.C., USA (2016)

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 Teaching posts

• Clinical lecturer in Hepatology, University of Birmingham (2015 – 2017)
• Clinical lecturer in the Liver Transplant Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham (2011 – 2017)

 Education

• Doctorate of Philosophy, University of Birmingham (2015)
• MRC clinical research fellow, University of Birmingham (2011 – 2014)
• Visiting research scientist, ChemoCentryx in California, USA (2013)
• Academic clinical fellow, National Institute for Health Research (2009 – 2011)
• Membership, Royal College of Physicians (2009)
• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University of Bristol (2005)

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 Publications and conferences

• Dr Parker has done extensive research work that has been published and presented at conferences, and can be viewed via his ORCID page.

 Prizes and awards

• Senior Clinical Practioner Research Award fellowship, National Institute for Health Research (2024)
• Liver research partnerships award for North of England Alcohol Team, National Institute for Health Research (2023)
• Sheila Sherlock Physician Scientist Fellowship, European Association for the Study of the Liver (2015)

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 Professional membership

• Member of the Policy Public Health and Advocacy Committee, European Association for the Study of the Liver (2009​ ​– present)
• Member, American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (2011​ ​– present)
• Member, European Association for the Study of the Liver

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