This programme was started by Professor Dame Parveen Kumar DBE, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Professor of Medicine and Education. While Professor Kumar no longer teaches on the programme, you will benefit from her previous input and years of continuous improvement.
Professor Dame Parveen Kumar is known around the world as co-founder and co-editor of the textbook “Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine” (currently in its tenth edition), which is core reading for many medical students around the world. Her research interests have been in disorders of the small bowel particularly coeliac disease in which she completed her MD and published widely on the topic. Her interests turned to education, recently teaching on the MSc Gastroenterology. Professor Kumar has many other notable achievements and is currently the President of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund which helps to support doctors, medical students and their families. In the past, she has been President of the British Medical Association, President of the Royal Society of Medicine, President of Medical Women's Federation, and academic vice president of the Royal College of Physicians. She was the Chair of the Medicines Commission UK and a founding non-executive Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). In 2017, she was awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to medicine and medical education.
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Professor Nick Croft is now programme director on the course. His work has largely been in leading and supporting clinical and translational research in the field of paediatric gastroenterology. His research interests focus on paediatric gastroenterological diseases, with a particular interest in inflammatory bowel disease and paediatric endoscopy. This includes patient-based studies, both industry and non-industry, of which he has held multiple Chief and Principal Investigator roles. He is an active member of the ESPGHAN-Porto PIBD Working group and represents the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology within the European Medicines Agency. He is the Paed GI lead in Connecting4Children, an international children’s trials network. A founding co-director of the NIHR London and South East Medicines for Children Clinical Research Network, he developed a fully staffed Children’s Clinical Research Facility based in Tthe Royal London Children’s Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust.
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Dr Alicia Green is the lead for our online PGDip and MSc, and of the dissertation module Clinical Case Report. Dr Green lectures on and co-convenes three of the core modules including Liver and pancreatic diseases, Endoscopy and GI investigations, and Adult GI diseases. She delivers practical endoscopy simulation practice for our on-site students. She is a member of the Neurogastroenterology group with active participation in clinical research activities within the Wingate Institute team.
Professor Qasim Aziz is a Professor of Neurogastroenterology and co-lead for the Neurogastroenterology module. He is also the Director of the Wingate Institute of Neurogastroenterology. His research is aimed at understanding the neurophysiological basis of human brain-gut communication. He has obtained national and international awards for his research such as the British Society of Gastroenterology Research Gold Medal and the American Gastroenterology Association, Janssen Award for Basic and Clinical Research. He has held the position of Chairman of the Neurogastroenterology and Motility Section of the British Society of Gastroenterology, member of the United European Gastroenterology Federation Education Committee and is the current President of the European Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility. He is currently co-lead for the World Health Organisation’s ICD-11 coding for visceral pain and past Chair of the Abdominal and Pelvic Pain Special Interest Group of the International Society for the Study of Pain. He has been a member of Rome III and Rome IV Committees for criteria for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. He is also a member of the Association of Physicians and Surgeons of UK and Ireland. He is currently gastroenterology speciality lead for North Thames Clinical Research Network.
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Professor Daniel Sifrim is a Professor of Gastrointestinal Physiology and contributes to the Neurogastroenterology module. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles, chapters and reviews of oesophageal disorders. He received the American Gastroenterology Association, Janssen Award 2003 for Basic and Clinical Research.
Professor James Lindsay is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Barts Health NHS Trust and module director for the Inflammatory Bowel Disease module on the programme. He runs the adolescent and adult Inflammatory Bowel Disease service at The Royal London Hospital with a full multidisciplinary team. He serves on the BSG IBD Clinical Trials Steering Group and is Chief Investigator for a series of investigator-led and commercial clinical trials in IBD. In 2019 he was recognised as one of London’s most influential people in the Evening Standard’s Progress 1000 list for his work on trialling stem cell transplants to grow a new immune system for people with untreatable Crohn’s disease. As well as the Gastroenterology programme at the Blizard, he holds positions within the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (ECCO), such as Education Officer, e-learning ambassador, and a member of the Governing Board. He is also the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) national societies representative to United European Gastroenterology.
Professor Graham Foster is a Professor of Hepatology and runs the internationally recognised liver unit at Queen Mary/Barts Health NHS Trust. He is the national clinical lead for the NHS England Hepatitis C programme and the Chairman of the NHSE Hepatobiliary Clinical Reference Group. He is also the sub-editor of the Journal of Viral Hepatitis.