Olivier James Garden, (born 13 November 1953) is a British

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and academic. He holds the Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery at the University of Edinburgh and the president of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association from 2012 to 2014. Garden performed Scotland's first liver transplant in Edinburgh in 1992 and founded the Scottish Liver Transplant Programme.

Early life and education

Garden was born on 13 November 1953. He was educated at

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, a

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in Lanark, Scotland. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc in 1974. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School and graduated with a MBChB in 1977 and a MD in 1987. He completed his postgraduate surgical training in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Paris from 1978 to 1988.

Career

Garden was appointed a Senior Lecturer in Surgery and Honorary Consultant Surgeon at the

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in 1988. He was appointed Personal Chair in Hepatobiliary Surgery in 1997. He was appointed Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery in 2000. He was appointed Surgeon to the Queen in Scotland in 2004. He is a visiting professor at a number of institutions including Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Cape Town. Garden founded the MSc in Surgical Sciences program at the University of Edinburgh. Garden is an editor of the textbook ''General Surgery: Principles and International Practice'' and ''Endocrine Surgery: Handbooks in General Surgery''. Garden was the surgeon who provided 2 liver transplants to

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Honours

He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2013. In the 2014 New Year Honours, Garden was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to surgery.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Garden, Olivier James British surgeons Living people Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Edinburgh Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians People educated at Lanark Grammar School 1953 births Place of birth missing (living people) Physicians of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Harvard Medical School faculty Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faculty Washington University School of Medicine faculty Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Academic staff of the University of Cape Town