Qualifications

1981	BA (First class honours) from Oxford University in Physiological Sciences
1984	MB BS from St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School
1988	Membership of Royal College of Physicians
1994	Doctor of Medicine, Oxford University, with Thesis entitled “Adhesion molecules in the gastrointestinal tract”
1998	Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

     

Prizes and distinctions

• Major Scholarship to University of Oxford
• Martin Wronker prize, University of Oxford
• MRC Training Fellowship
• Leslie Parrott Research Fellowship, National Association of Colitis and Crohn's
   

Professional Memberships

• British Medical Association
• British Society of Gastroenterology
• American Gastroenterology Association
• Medical Protection Society
• Fellow of Royal College of Physicians
• European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation

Details of Clinical Training

My preclinical training and first degree in physiological sciences were at Oxford University. I studied Clinical Medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Postgraduate training involved jobs in London (St Thomas’ and the Royal Free Hospital), Oxford, and later Liverpool. I became committed to a career in Gastroenterology while working for Dr Derek Jewell and Dr Roger Chapman in Oxford.
I spent three and a half years gaining experience of research and molecular biology under the supervision of Dr David Simmonds in the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford. I was and remain particularly interested in the process of inflammation in the digestive tract leading to the diseases ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.
From 1994 to 1996, I was lecturer and senior registrar at the University of Liverpool under Professor Jonathan Rhodes and Professor Ian Gilmore.

I was appointed Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) in July 1996, and since then have kept my clinical and endoscopic skills honed by regular participation in postgraduate educational courses.