Roger Williams

Who is Roger Williams?

Professor Roger Stanley Williams, CBE is a British medical doctor, born in 1930, specialising in hepatology. He is currently Director of the Institute of Hepatology, once part of University College London, and now private research Institute supported by the Foundation for Liver Research, and affiliated to Birkbeck College, University of London. Williams was part of the medical team that performed the first liver transplant in the UK in 1968.

He is well known for treating Northern Irish footballer 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.

Professor Williams attended St Mary's College as a child between 1945–1949.

Since 2010 Professor Williams, aged 80, is a Visiting Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which bankrolls a collaborative Biomarkers Research Program.