Roger Williams obituary
by Penny Warren from Science | The Guardian on (#56R6F)
Physician who created the UK's first liver transplant programme and worked with George Best to highlight the dangers of alcohol
The six-decade career of Roger Williams, who has died at the age of 88 after suffering a heart attack, lay at the heart of an astonishing transformation in liver medicine.
In 1968, while a hepatologist at King's College hospital in London, he teamed up with the Cambridge surgeon Roy Calne to form the Cambridge-King's transplant programme and carry out the UK's first liver transplant.
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