Prof. Adnan Sharif is a Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham.

He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2002 and underwent his medical and nephrology training in Cardiff and Birmingham respectively, including an observing post at Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, USA) before starting his Consultant post in 2011.

He retains an active research focus and has >180 peer-reviewed scientific publications and numerous book chapters. He is currently Chief Investigator on a number of prospective cohort and randomized clinical trials related to dialysis and kidney transplantation.

He currently serves as Co-Director of the UK Organ Donation and Transplantation Research Network.

He is on the Board of Trustees for Give A Kidney and the Global Kidney Foundation, and is a long-term member of the National BAME Transplantation Alliance.

Prof. Sharif has represented Transplant Nephrology on the British Transplantation Society Council for 2020-2023 and currently serves as Councillor for EDI. He currently sits on the DESCaRTES working group for the European Renal Association.

Prof. Sharif is an expert speaker for national and international meetings. He supports educational courses including the Advanced Nephrology course (UK Kidney Association), Transplant Live (European Society of Organ Transplantation) and the International Transplant Network (Turkish Transplant Foundation).

In addition to his clinical and research interests, he is the secretary of the non-Government Organization Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) which campaigns against illegal and unethical organ procurement around the globe.

The group was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016, 2017 & 2024 and received the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice in 2019.

Areas include:

Renal medicine (nephrology), renal transplantation, inflammatory kidney disease, hypertension and chronic kidney disease.