Consultant Haematologist, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Clinical Lead for Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University

Dr Wilson graduated from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. General Medicine postgraduate training was undertaken in his native Trinidad and Tobago and specialist training in Haematology and Transplantation in London at St George’s, the Royal Marsden and St Helier Hospitals under the auspices of the South Thames Deanery.

From 1999 to 2006, Keith was the Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Programme at the University Hospital of Wales. This was a joint appointment with the Welsh Blood Service where he was the Lead Consultant for Apheresis and the Medical Director of the Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry. He led the merger of existing clinical programmes with collection and processing facilities to form the South Wales Blood and Marrow Transplant Programme in 2011, serving 2.5 million adults and children in south, mid and west Wales.

Keith has a wide range of research interests including the role of immunotherapy in cancer therapy, late effects of transplantation, funding and commissioning strategies, and quality management systems. He is a board member of Advanced Therapies Wales, one of the Welsh Government’s Precision Medicine pillars, established to encourage inward investment and to facilitate delivery of clinical trial and commercial ATMPs. Keith founded the Wales Cellular Therapy Consortium to further translational research into Advanced Therapies and to serve as a platform for interested researchers to benefit from the transplant database.