James Hunter
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James Hunter
Associate Professor of Transplant Surgery
James is an academic transplant and vascular access surgeon who has a joint contract with University Hospital Coventry and University of Oxford. His clinical interests include live donor kidney transplant and complex vascular access. His research interests include mechanisms of kidney injury and repair, kidneys preservation and assessment prior to transplant and clinical trials in vascular access. He is the first appointment to the Coventry Oxford transplant network (CoXNet), which is a UK transplant collaborative aimed at improving patient access to transplant by resource sharing between centres.
Recent publications
Scoping Review of the Photographic Assessment of Donor Liver Steatosis in Transplantation Using Artificial Intelligence.
Journal article
Kourounis G. et al, (2026), Clin Transplant, 40
Comparison of "Continuous" and "End-ischemic" Approaches of Oxygenated Hypothermic Machine Perfusion for Pancreas Preservation.
Journal article
Elzawahry MAME. et al, (2026), Transplant Direct, 12
Urine Recirculation During Normothermic Kidney Preservation Improves Energy Balance Involving the Urea and TCA Cycles
Preprint
Weissenbacher A. et al, (2026)
Improving outcomes in kidney transplantation through advances in donor organ perfusion.
Journal article
Hunter J. et al, (2025), Nat Rev Nephrol, 21, 818 - 832
Effect of a Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy in Healthy Living Kidney Donors on the Acute Phase Response Using Either Propofol or Sevoflurane Anesthesia.
Journal article
Brattinga B. et al, (2025), Int J Mol Sci, 26