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The Hon. Peter Benson, LVO, FCA, is chairman of a trends research company, acts as consultant to a London-based international investment house and is non-executive director of Spectrum Interactive. He was previously a senior partner at the chartered accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers for many years. He is also much involved with the world of theatre. Peter has been a Trustee and Hon. Treasurer of St. Peter’s Trust since August 2000 and is Chairman of the Finance Committee. |
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Prof. John Cunningham, CVO, is Professor of Nephrology at UCL Medical School and Consultant Nephrologist at the Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust, London. He also holds the posts of Physician to HM The Queen and Head of the Medical Household. His education in medicine was at Cambridge, Oxford, London and the USA. He is an active physician-scientist with clinical and research interests covering a wide range of kidney and related disorders. He has been a Trustee since November 2003. |
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Mr. Mark Emberton is Reader in Interventional Oncology at UCL Medical School with a special interest in non-invasive treatments of the prostate. He holds posts as Consultant Urologist and Divisional Clinical Director of Cancer Services at UCL Hospitals NHS Trust, London and Consultant Urologist at the Princess Grace Hospital. He is Clinical Director of the Clinical Effectiveness Unit at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and also Associate Professor at Middlesex University, London. He has been a Trustee since April 2007. |
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Mr. Roger Henderson, QC was a scholar at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, graduating in 1964 with a first class degree in law. He took silk in 1980 at the age of 36 and has a varied legal practice but is best known in the field of public law, local government and public inquiries. He was chairman of the St Peter’s Special Committee, formed to negotiate the relocation of the St Peter’s Group of Hospitals to the Middlesex Hospital site in 1992. He has been a Trustee since February 1993. |
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Mr. David Hunter has extensive experience of global securities markets and is a director of Smith & Williamson Investment Management. He has been a Trustee since July 1994 and is a member of the Trust’s Finance Committee. |
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Mrs. Kate Jemmett was a very active volunteer for the Trust for several years before becoming a Trustee in February 2001. She has direct experience of what is involved in coping with kidney disease, as one of her daughters had a disorder which led to the need for a kidney transplant. This operation was successfully carried out at the St Peter’s Hospitals. It was very much a family affair as her other daughter was the donor. |
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Mr. Christopher Johnson-Gilbert is managing partner of the London office of Conyers Dill & Pearman. Prior to joining Conyers he spent 25 years with the city law firm Linklaters where he became a partner in 1986. He has been a Trustee since August 2004. |
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The Hon. Hector McDonnell is the younger son of the late Earl of Antrim, who was the first Chairman of St Peter’s Trust. Hector is an acclaimed artist whose work is exhibited regularly. He is also a writer and an active promoter of the cultural history of Ireland. He has been a vital member of the Trust for over 30 years, having become a Trustee in 1977. |
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Prof. Guy Neild was the first holder of the St Peter’s Trust Chair of Nephrology, inaugurated in 1991 at the Institute of Urology & Nephrology, UCL Medical School. He retired from this post in 2003 but continues as professor at UCL, pursuing his research interests in the causes of renal failure in young adults, disorders associated with genetic anomalies, chronic kidney disease and renal transplantation. He has been a Trustee since March 1992. |
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Dr. Caroline Parks has now retired, but worked at UCH and St Marks Hospitals before working for many years as a consultant radiologist at the St Peter’s Hospitals and consequently has extensive knowledge of urinary tract disorders and their diagnosis and treatment, particularly in relation to the use of ultrasound and associated techniques. She became a Trustee in April 2007. |
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Mr. David Seligman spent 25 years at SG Warburg and its successor firms before forming Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity Select in 2002. The firm manages fund-of-funds targeting the Western European lower mid-market buy-out segment. He became a Trustee in October 1996 and is a member of the Trust’s Finance Committee. |
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Mrs Janet Wolfinden was the administrator of the Institute of Urology & Nephrology for 19 years from 1974. She then transferred to the central administration of UCL Medical School when the Institute merged with UCL and, at the time of her retirement in 2004, she held the post of Director of Administration of the Medical School. She became a Trustee in June 2005. |
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Prof. Christopher Woodhouse trained in urology at the St. Peter's Hospitals and Institute of Urology & Nephrology, London, and held the post of Senior Lecturer/Hon. Consultant and then Reader in Urology at the Institute until he became Professor of Adolescent Urology at UCL in 2006. He is a Consultant Urologist at UCL Hospitals NHS Trust and the Royal Marsden Hospital. He is also Chairman of the British Journal of Urology International. His interests are in the treatment of cancer, reconstructive surgery, and the subsequent management in later life of patients treated for congenital abnormalities of the urinary tract. He has been a Trustee since July 1994. |
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Mr. Peter Worth retired from his post as Consultant Urologist at The Middlesex Hospital, London, after serving the hospital and the Institute of Urology & Nephrology for many years. He undertook his postgraduate urology training at The Middlesex, St. Peter’s and St. Mary’s Hospitals and had his first contact with the Trust in 1977, when he was awarded a major grant for research on incontinence. He has been a Trustee since February 2001 and Chairman since 2002. He also serves on our Medical Advisory Committee, which reviews grant applications and makes recommendations to the Trustees. |