Richard Parker is a transplant hepatologist at the Leeds Liver Unit and a senior lecturer at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. He received his medical degree in 2005 from the University of Bristol and completed his specialist hepatology training at the Birmingham Liver Transplant Unit. His post-graduate training included a PhD at the University of Birmingham, UK, focussing on inflammatory pathways in liver disease in steatotic liver disease, and a period as a visiting scientist at the NIH in Maryland, USA.
Dr Parker’s clinical and research interests are focussed on Alcohol related Liver Disease. He has led international collaborative groups to explore the natural history of ArLD and worked with multiple stakeholders to promote greater research activity in ArLD, especially in areas with high prevalence of disease but historically poor access to research. He leads the UK ArLD special interest group and is local principal investigator for a number of phase II and III clinical research studies.