Profile
Curriculum Vitae
Consultant Physician & Gastroenterologist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent since 1997.
Professional Membership
- General Medical Council
- Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland
- British Society of Gastroenterology
- American Gastroenterology Association
- Fellow of Royal College of Physicians
Qualifications
1984 BSc (2:1), University of London, in basic medical science with physiology
1987 MB BS degrees awarded by Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School
1990 Membership of Royal College of Physicians of London
1995 Doctor of Medicine, University of London. Thesis entitled "The effect of Helicobacter pylori infection on gastric acid secretion and duodenal bulb morphology".
2001 Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians of London
2010 Post Graduate Certificate in Strategic Leadership
Clinical Training
I attended Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, West London from 1981 until graduation in 1987. My post-graduate training in internal medicine and gastroenterology took place in Charing Cross, St Mary's, Central Middlesex, St Thomas' and St George's Hospitals in London and in Kingston, Epsom, Hillingdon and Harefield Hospitals in the Home Counties.
I spent two years (1993-5) in full time academic study as a research fellow investigating the relationship between infection with Helicobacter pylori, gastric acid output, duodenal bulb morphology and duodenal ulcer disease. This work was submitted as a thesis to the University of London leading to Doctor of Medicine higher degree.
From 1995 until 1997 I worked as Senior Registrar to Dr JJ Misiewicz and Professor D Silk at Central Middlesex Hospital, London. I completed my clinical training in dyspepsia, gastro-oesophageal reflux and developed particular expertise in the management of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases and functional abdominal conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome.
I was appointed as Consultant Physician & Gastroenterologist to the Kent & Sussex Hospital in 1997.
Medical Management
- Deputy Chair of Clinical Services & Standards Committee, British Society of Gastroenterology (2009-12)
- NICE Ulcerative Colitis Guideline Development Group (2011-12)
- British Society of Gastroenterology Lead for Revalidation (2009-12)
- Chair, British Society of Gastroenterology Independent Practice Committee (2009-11)
- Honorary Secretary to British Society of Gastroenterology (2005-9)
- Chair, Kent Inflammatory Bowel Disease Forum (2009-11)
- Clinical Lead for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, The Tunbridge Wells Hospital
- Divisional Director, Planned Care Services, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (2010-11)
- Clinical Lead for Endoscopy for South East Coast Strategic Health Authority (2005-8)
Awarded a National Bronze Clinical Excellence Award in 2007 (renewed in 2011) for "sustained and dedicated contribution to the NHS over and above any contractual requirement"