I am a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Head of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Section at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NE Sector) in Manchester, UK and Professor of Clinical Gastroenterology at the Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester. I am also Hon. Professor at the Manchester Metropolitan University and Deputy Director of Research &Innovation at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester.

I qualified in 1993 and completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology in Yorkshire and Manchester, followed by a period of research at the ICMS, Barts and The London, and University College Hospitals, London. My clinical research interests in IBD include translational research, clinical trials, IBD therapeutics, diet, gut permeability and nutriceuticals, early diagnosis and outcomes, IBD in older persons, neuromotility in IBD, exercise and IBD and women’s health related issues in IBD.

I am a Principal and Chief Investigator to several IBD studies, Associate Editor of the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases journal, Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology, Drugs Context and Frontline Gastroenterology. I hold Editorial board and peer review appointments with leading gastroenterology journals and have published and lectured widely in the field. I have participated in several national and international peer review processes, Delphi panels and co-authored national and international IBD guidelines. I was previously BSG representative to the Association of Coloproctologists of GB&I, the BSG Food and Function CRG and the UK National Representative at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) between 2012 and 2021.

I am currently a member of the World Congress of Gastroenterology IBD Committee, BSG IBD Committee, BSG IBD Section Representative to the BSG Education Committee, BSG Education Representative to the International Committee, BSG National representative to the Americas and The Caribbean and the UK National Representative to the ACG.