NIHR Clinical Lecturer in HPB and Transplantation Surgery & Honorary Specialty Registrar (General Surgery)
Research interests
• Immunology (adaptive immune responses, innate lymphocytes, sterile inflammation)
• Hepatic inflammation (Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Paracetamol-Induced Liver Injury, Concanavalin A hepatitis)
• Therapeutic targeting of Immune pathways
• Pancreatitis
• Vascular Access Surgery
• Clinical Transplantation (liver, kidney, pancreas, tissue)
• Medical Devices
Teaching
I also have a significant interest in the delivery, assessment and organisation of both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, which has been recognised by a number of local and regional awards. This experience has been gathered at various medical schools [Cambridge, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Glasgow, Queensland], as well as in the postgraduate setting across several postgraduate deaneries.
Key publications
Richards J, Sherif A, Butler A, Hunt F, Allison M, Watson C, Oniscu G. Model for Early Allograft Function is predictive of early graft loss in DCD liver transplantation. Clinical Transplantation May 2020. Doi: 10.1111/ctr.13982.
Ayorinde J, Webb G, Richards J. To NRP or not to NRP, that is the question…. Transplantation 2019. Doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000002877.
Richards J et al. A study protocol for the Surveillance Of arterioveNous fistulAe using ultRasound (SONAR) trial.BMJ Open. 2019 Jul 23;9(7): e031210. Doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031210.
Taylor R, Allen E, Richards JA, Goh AM, Neuberger J, Collett D, Pettigrew GJ.Significant survival advantage from accepting an early circulatory death liver transplant offer. Journal of Hepatology 2019; 70 (5): 855-865. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2018.12.033.
Mylonas K, Anderson J, Sheldrake T, Hesketh E, Richards J, Ferenbach D, Kluth D, Savill J, Hughes J. Granulocyte Macrophage-Colony Stimulating Factor- A key modulator of renal mononuclear phagocyte plasticity. Immunobiology 2019; 224 (1): 60-74. doi: 10.1016/j.imbio.2018.10.007.
Siu JHY, Surendrakumar V, Richards JA, Pettigrew GJ. T Cell Allorecognition Pathways in Transplant Rejection. Frontiers in Immunology 2018; 5 (9): 2548. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02548.
Richards J, Wigmore SJ, Anderton SA, Howie SEM. NKT cells are important mediators of hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury. Transplant Immunology 2017; doi:10.1016/j.trim.2017.08.002 (Epub August 2017).
Lyall MJ, Cartier J, Richards JA, Cobice D, Thomson JP, Meehan RR, Anderton SM, Drake AJ. Methyl donor deficient diets cause distinct alterations in lipid metabolism but are poorly representative of human NAFLD. Wellcome Open Research 2017; Wellcome Open Res 2017, 2: 67; doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.12199.1.
Richards JA, Jones K, Moinuddin Z, Pettigrew GJ.Response to: Prophylactic Ureteric Stents in Renal Transplant Recipients: A Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial of Early Versus Late Removal. American Journal of Transplantation 2017; doi: 10.1111/ajt.14378.
Richards J, Bucsaiova M, Hesketh EE, Ventre C, Henderson NC, Simpson K, Bellamy COC, Howie SEM, Anderton SM, Hughes J, Wigmore SJ (2015) Acute liver injury is independent of B cells or Immunoglobulin M. PLOSone September 2015.
Areas of expertise
General surgery, clinical surgery, HPB surgery, transplantation surgery, medical education, immunology, innate T cells, cytokines, ischemia-reperfusion injury, acute liver injury, liver inflammation, sterile tissue injury, pancreatitis, translational research, clinical trials
