Archives: Team Members

Colin White 
National Projects Manager with the Irish Kidney Association

Colin is from Ireland and is the National Projects Manager with the Irish Kidney Association. He is also currently the Honorary Treasurer of the World Transplant Games Federation and Honorary Secretary of the European Transplant & Dialysis Sports Federation. He has extensive experience speaking about organ donation to a variety of audiences both in Ireland and internationally. With a background in teaching and working with not for profit organisations he is passionate about empowering patients to take an active role in their own healthcare and sees transplantation as a step on their treatment journey, not the final destination.

Fiona Loud, Kidney Care UK, UK
Fiona Loud has been policy director of Kidney Care UK since 2013. Previously Director of the Kidney Alliance, she led and co-authored a kidney community review of kidney care, Kidney Health: Delivering Excellence. She is involved with numerous other groups, working to improve standards of care for kidney patients. She set up and chairs the UK Renal Registry patient council and has contributed as a lay representative to many of the kidney guidelines produced by NICE (the National Institute of Health and Social Care). She is lay chair of a local hospital organ donation committee and vice chair of her local kidney patient association at another local hospital. Fiona spent 5 years on dialysis after her kidneys failed, before receiving a transplant from her husband in late 2006. She has a genetic condition called tuberous sclerosis which alongside 2 episodes of kidney cancer led to her kidneys failing. She is a Fellow of the British Renal Society and was one of the Health Service Journal Top 50 patient leaders. She was profiled in the Lancet.

Peter Carstedt (Sweden) is the founder and leader of MOD–More Organ Donation, a non-profit advocating that no one should die on the waiting list in Sweden. He is the co-founder of Forum Lead Patient, another NGO to empower and support the patient movement in Sweden; and he was recently appointed by the government to be a member of the Swedish Task Force for Healthcare and Life Science. He received a kidney 10 years ago and has a Master’s degree in business management.