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Specialises in

• Endoscopy

• Hepatobiliary

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

After completing degree courses in Dundee University, Scotland and the Gregorian University, Rome, Italy I studied medicine in London in 1985, qualifying from University College Middlesex School of Medicine, University of London in 1990. I have been fortunate in having excellent teachers and clinicians during my early formative clinical training in Bournemouth & Poole Hospitals, Conquest Hospital Hastings, The Middlesex Hospital London, and Oldchurch Hospital Romford before gaining my general medical training qualification from the Royal College of Physicians, London in 1994. I entered higher specialist training in Wessex for Gastroenterology, training in Swindon, Southampton and Portsmouth from 1995 - 2000. For 3 years I was privileged to scientific research with clinician scientists in Southampton University studying liver and pancreatic fibrosis in the Molecular Biology Liver Unit, Southampton for a Doctorate in Medicine. I took two years out from my final training to work full time as a gastroenterology registrar working for 5 consultants in St Vincent’s Hospital Medical School, an inner city teaching hospital in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia from 2000 – 2003. Here I was given a rare opportunity to work with outstanding and inspirational clinicians in a tertiary referral viral hepatitis and advanced endoscopy training centre where I learned specialist endoscopy techniques such as EUS & ERCP. After commencing my consultant post in 2003 I led the department of Gastroenterology from 2008 to 2013 and now lead the specialist services in Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) Medicine whilst providing a regional service for Endoscopic Ultrasound. I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London. Recently I have been part of designing a national training course for trainee endoscopists in EUS as well working closely with the national endoscopy and gastroenterology body for quality in training (JAG).

Areas of interest

Common abdominal (Gastrointestinal or GI) complaints including abdominal pain, difficulty in swallowing, heartburn, pain on eating, losing weight, change in bowel habit, liver problems, pancreatitis, and diagnosis of gastrointestinal cancer.

Medical Conditions: Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis, Coeliac Disease, Dyspepsia, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD), General Internal Medicine, Hepatitis, Hiatus Hernia, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Liver disease (Hepatology).

Specialist Endoscopy Procedures: Gastroscopy (Diagnostic and Therapeutic), Flexible Sigmoidoscopy, Colonoscopy including removal of colonic polyps and Enteroscopy. Advanced Endoscopic techniques such as ERCP & EUS

Anaesthetists worked with

• Dr Martin X Clark Not Fee Assured
• Dr Christopher Loew Not Fee Assured
• Dr John E H Ward Not Fee Assured
• Dr Nigel White Not Fee Assured
• Dr James Berrington Not Fee Assured
• Dr Douglas Tunney Not Fee Assured

• Dr Matthew Taylor Not Fee Assured
• Dr Robert Wiltshire Not Fee Assured
• Dr Alison McCormick Not Fee Assured
• Dr Nigel Beauchamp Not Fee Assured
• Dr Richard James Green Not Fee Assured
• Dr Robert N McCormick Not Fee Assured