O. James Garden

Olivier James Garden (born 13 November 1953) is a British surgeon and academic. He held the Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery at the University of Edinburgh until 2018, and was president of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association from 2012 to 2014. Garden performed Scotland's first liver transplant in Edinburgh in 1992 and founded the Scottish Liver Transplant Programme.

Early life and education Garden was born on 13 November 1953. He was educated at Lanark Grammar School, a secondary school in Lanark, Scotland. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc in 1974. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School and graduated with a MBChB in 1977 and a MD in 1987. He is a visiting professor at a number of institutions, including Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Cape Town. Garden is an editor of the textbook General Surgery: Principles and International Practice and Endocrine Surgery: Handbooks in General Surgery. Garden was the surgeon who provided 2 liver transplants to Jim Baxter.

Honours He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2013. In the 2014 New Year Honours, Garden was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to surgery.