Inflammatory bowel disease

Ayesha Akbar joined the St Mark’s consultant physician staff in 2010. Her clinical interests include general gastroenterology with a focus in inflammatory bowel disease. She also has an interest in abdominal pain and irritable bowel syndrome, especially in the overlap cases with inflammatory bowel disease, and sits on the British Society of Gastroenterology Neurogastroenterology committee. She is involved in service development including setting up a community gastroenterology service with the …

He qualified from Imperial College, London in 2005 and undertook specialist training in the North West Thames London rotation. He has completed a fellowship in advanced endoscopy at St Mark’s Hospital and is skilled at diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy. He took time out of his training to pursue a PhD on the impact of ethnicity on epidemiology, metabolic and microbial profiling. He has collaborated with the Centre for Digestive Health at Imperial College to study how the microbiome changes in …