Roy Yorke Calne

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name = Sir Roy Yorke Calne

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caption = A bronze bust of Sir Roy holding a liver, outside the main operating theatres at Addenbrooke's Hospital
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profession = Surgeon
specialism = Organ transplantation
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years_active = 1959 -
education = Lancing College ((formerly College of St Mary and St Nicholas)
Lancing, West Sussex
England
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Sir Roy Yorke Calne, FRS is a British surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation; he performed the first liver transplantation operation in Europe in 1968. His surgical procedures also laid claim to many other pioneering successes in his career: the world's first liver, heart, and lung transplant in 1987; the first intestinal transplant in the U.K. in 1992, and the first successful combined stomach, intestine, pancreas, liver, and kidney cluster transplant in 1994. [citation|first=Amir|last=Amirani|title=Sir Roy Calne Pursues Higher Tolerance in Transplantatione|date=|publisher=The Thomson Corporation|url=http://www.sciencewatch.com/interviews/sir_roy_calne.htm|journal=Science Watch|date=May 1995|accessdate=2008-08-01]

Calne is a fellow of the Royal Society and was Professor of Surgery at Cambridge University between 1965 and 1968 where he initiated the kidney transplant program.CBE, RA in 1991.

Calne is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association [ [http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/contentViewArticle.asp?article=1162 British Humanist Association Distinguished Supporters of Humanism list] ]

He is currently the Yeah Ghim Professor of Surgery with the National University of Singapore, and an artist. He is also a member of the art group Group 90 in Singapore.

Art Gallery

Bibliography

* Ellis, Harold, 1926-, Calne, Roy Y. (Roy Yorke), Sir, 1930- and Christopher Watson (2006) "Lecture notes on general surgery (Eleventh edition)". Oxford : Blackwell Scientific. ISBN: 9781405139113.
* Calne, Roy Y. (Roy Yorke), Sir, 1930- (1970) "A Gift of Life: Observations on Organ Transplantation". New York : Basic Books. ISBN: 0465026753, 9780465026753
* Calne, Roy Y. (Roy Yorke), Sir, 1930- (1996) "Art, Surgery and Transplantation". London : Williams & Wilkins Europe. ISBN 0683230948, 9780683230949

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