Useful Medical Contacts

Organisations

This is a professional organisation of specialist doctors involved in the care of patients with pancreatic disease. The Society is allied to the European Pancreatic Club and the International Association of Pancreatology.
Write to: Mr Ross Carter
Secretary - Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Consultant Surgeon - Glasgow Royal Infirmary
84 Castle Street, Glasgow, G4 0SF
Tel: 0141 211 5129 Fax: 0141 211 4991
rcarter@clinmed.gla.ac.uk

MRI Pancreatitis Support Group, Pancreato-biliary administrator, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL. Provides support and advice to patients with pancreatitis in the Manchester region.
Contact Margaret O’Brien
Tel: 01457 873859.
email@email.com

Specifically supports basic and clinical research of all diseases of the pancreas.
Write to: Professor JP Neoptolemos - Division of Surgery and Oncology, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Daulby Street, Liverpool, L69 3QA
Tel: 0151 706 4175
http://www.liv.ac.uk/surgery/about.html
j.p.neoptolemos@liv.ac.uk

Supports research into digestive diseases.
Write to: 3, St Andrew's Place, London, NW1 4LB
Tel : 0207 486 0341
http://www.digestivedisorders.org.uk

European Register for Familial Pancreas Cancer and Hereditary Pancreatitis. The principal register in Europe providing advice and research in inherited pancreatic disorders.
Write to: EUROPAC Co-ordinator, Division of Surgery and Oncology, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Daulby Street, Liverpool, L69 3QA.
http://www.liv.ac.uk/surgery/europac.html
europac@liv.ac.uk