Professor Richard Pollok : Gastroenterology , General (internal) medicine

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Professor Richard Pollok

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Overview

Specialises in

Endoscopy

Inflammatory bowel disease

Offers

Face-to-face consultations
Video and telephone consultations

About me

I am a Consultant Gastroenterologist and am Professor of Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Infection at St George's University Hospital and St George's University of London. I see patients privately at Parkside Hospital, SW19 5NX. I am fully registered with the GMC and have specialist certification in Gastroenterology and General internal Medicine.

I trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital and was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship gaining my PhD in the field of gut immunology and GI infection. I have an international reputation for my research in the field of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) diagnosis and treatment. I have more than 200 peer reviewed research publications in the field of Gastroenterology.

My clinical interests include inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, chronic diarrhoea, gut infections, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional gut disorders, indigestion & heartburn and screening for bowel cancer. I am an experienced endoscopist and have performed many thousand colonoscopies and gastroscopies.

For further information see:
www.GastroDoc.co.uk

Areas of interest

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS); GI infection; Colorectal (bowel) cancer (including those with a family history); Dyspepsia (indigestion); Reflux: Food intolerance/allergy/microbiome dysbiosis, Colonoscopy; Gastroscopy (aka endoscopy or OGD);
problems with: altered bowel habit; rectal bleeding; acid-related symptoms; adolescents (16 and above) and young people with gut problems including IBD.

Medical secretaries

Milos Nikolic
Parkside Hospital 53 Parkside LONDON SW19 5NX
020 3959 7733
07564 186426
020 8947 4783
info@gastrodoc.co.uk

About me

External resources

Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Gastroenterologist and Professor of Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Infection
St George's Univ. Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
St George's London SW17

Research interests

Prof Richard Pollok trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital and won a highly sought after Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship gaining his PhD in the field of the gastrointestinal immunology and infection. He was awarded The Digestive Disease Foundation (CORE) national research prize for his work. His current research programme focuses on early diagnosis inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), bowel cancer and GI infection. He has been the principal investigator for numerous clinical trials and is South London Gastroenterology Lead for the Clinical Research network and has sat on the British Society of Gastroenterology IBD and NICE approval committees.

Personal interests

He enjoys sailing and theatre

Awards received

FRCP Fellow Royal College Physicians (London)
DTM&H Diploma of Tropical medicine (Liverpool)
BSc Infection and Immunity
PhD Mucosal immunology
MB BS Medicine

Crohn's and Colitis UK research funding
Wellcome Trust clinical research fellow and career development funding
MRC funding
Digestive Diseases Fund national research prize

Publications

Selected publications:-

Blackwell J etal. Prevalence and duration of gastrointestinal symptoms before diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and predictors of timely specialist review: a population-based study. J Crohns Colitis. 2020 Jul 15:jjaa146.

Jayasooriya N, Pollok RC et al. Adherence to 5-aminosalicylic acid maintenance treatment in young people with ulcerative colitis: a retrospective cohort study in primary care. Br J Gen Pract. 2023 Oct 26;73(736):850-e857

Jayasooriya N et al. Systematic review with meta-analysis: Time to diagnosis and the impact of delayed diagnosis on clinical outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2023 Mar;57(6):635-652.

GBD 2019 Colorectal Cancer Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of colorectal cancer and its risk factors, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2022 Jul;7(7):627-647.

Blackwell J et al. Depression in individuals who subsequently develop inflammatory bowel disease: a population-based nested case-control study. Gut. 2021 Sep;70(9):1642-1648.

Alexakis C, Saxena S, Chhaya V..., Pollok R. Smoking status at diagnosis and subsequent smoking cessation: associations with corticosteroid use and intestinal resection in Crohn's disease. Am J Gastroenterol Oct 2018

Taylor SA, .. Pollok RC,... METRIC study investigators. Diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance enterography and small bowel ultrasound for the extent and activity of newly diagnosed and relapsed Crohn's disease (METRIC): a multicentre trial. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 Aug;3(8):548-558. doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(18)30161-4.

Alexakis, ...Pollok R. Systematic review and meta-analysis: the impact of a depressive state on disease course in adult inflammatory bowel disease. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2017 Jun 2. doi: 10.1111/apt.14171

4. Heap GA,...¦Pollok R,;..et al. Clinical Features and HLA Association of 5-Aminosalicylate (5-ASA)-induced Nephrotoxicity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. J Crohns Colitis. 2016 Feb;10(2):149-58.9

Chhaya V, .., Pollok RC: Steroid dependency and trends in prescribing for inflammatory bowel disease - a 20-year national population-based study. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2016 Sep;44(5):482-94.

JF Rahier..R Pollok et al. European evidence-based Consensus on the prevention, diagnosis and management of opportunistic infections in inflammatory bowel disease. Journal of Crohn's and Colitis 2013, 3 (2), 47-91

Courses offered to GPs

I regularly speak on aspects of Inflammatory bowel disease; GI infection and other aspects of Gastroenterology nationally and internationally. I am happy to accept invitations to speak with local health care professionals.

About my work

My qualifications & training

Qualifications

Diploma of Tropical Medicine & Hygeine Univ. Liverpool 1990
MB BS St Bartholomew's medical School 1989
BSc Infection and Imunology University of London 1986
PhD Mucosal immunology and intestinal infection University of London 2002
Felllow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) Royal College of Physicians (London) 1996

GMC registration

Reference number 3339181

Professional bodies (positions held - last 3 yrs)

South London Gastroenterology Lead Clinical research Network 2014
IBD committee British Society of Gastroenterology 2017

Details of entry to specialist register

Gastroenterology and General medicine , 2002

Affiliations / memberships

Royal College of Physicians
British Society of Gastroenterology
British medical Association
Medical Defence Union

My private practice

Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)

Procedures completed

X3510
IV sedation administered by operator - (>50)

Nuffield Health Parkside Hospital (1-5)
H2002
Diagnostic colonoscopy, includes forceps biopsy of colon and ileum - (>50)

Nuffield Health Parkside Hospital (1-5)
G8082
Diagnostic oesophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (OGD) and immediate colonoscopy includes forceps biopsies, biopsy test and dye spray (as sole procedure) - (5-50)
G6500
Diagnostic oesophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (OGD) includes forceps biopsy, biopsy urease test and dye spray - (5-50)
H2003
Therapeutic colonoscopy with snare loop biopsy or excision of lesion - (5-50)
20365
Follow-up out-patient consultation - remote - (1-5)
H2502
Diagnostic flexible sigmoidoscopy (including forceps biopsy and proctoscopy) - (1-5)
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