Professor Nigel Heaton

Professor Nigel Heaton is a Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon with a specialist interest in living donor liver transplantation, complex hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, and the resection of cholangiocarcionomas.

Professor Heaton qualified as a doctor from King’s College Hospital in 1978 and spent seven months working at St James’ Hospital, Balham in 1980. After training as a general surgeon with an interest in adult and paediatric liver disease, he became involved in the liver transplant programme and was appointed Consultant Surgeon at King’s College Hospital NHS Trust in 1993. Professor Heaton has published over 200 papers on subjects relating to liver transplantation and surgery. He was awarded a personal chair in Liver Transplantation Surgery in 2005 by King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.