Simon Knight

I undertook my undergraduate studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, gaining a BA in medical science in 2000 before studying clinical medicine at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. I qualified as a doctor in 2002, and moved to Nottingham for my Basic Surgical Training. I moved to Oxford in May 2006 to take up a position with the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation (CET) as a clinical research fellow in transplant surgery, during which time I completed my Master of Surgery (MChir) thesis with the University of Cambridge.
After completion of my surgical training, I took up a post as an Honorary Consultant Transplant Surgeon and Senior Clinical Research Fellow at Oxford in 2017. My clinical interests are in transplantation, living donation and vascular access surgery. I am the clinical lead for living kidney donation, and divisional medical informatics lead for SUWON division.
I have now taken over as Director of the CET. My research interests lie in evidence-based transplant surgery, transplant clinical trials and trial methodology. I have completed a large number systematic reviews relating to the optimisation of post-transplant immunosuppression and other topics in transplantation. I have also been involved in a number of investigator-led and industry funded international clinical trials, including the design of the Consortium for Organ Preservation in Europe (COPE) trials of novel organ preservation techniques, and am co-PI for a number of ongoing clinical trials in organ preservation including the DeFAT study and the PLUS study.

I am also currently working with the Oxford Computational Health Informatics lab (CHI), investigating the use of Artificial Intelligence in helping to make decisions about organ offers.

For more information on my work, and that of the CET, please visit the CET website.