Dr Alissa Walsh

Dr Alissa Walsh is a consultant gastroenterologist based at Nuffield Health The Manor Hospital in Oxford. She has specialist expertise in inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, blood in stool, colorectal cancer, and performing endoscopies and colonoscopies.

Dr Walsh graduated from the University of Queensland in 1999 and underwent gastroenterology training in Australia. After being appointed consultant by the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 2006, Dr Walsh came to the UK, where she undertook a year-long fellowship at the John Radcliffe Hospital. From 2008, she served as the head of the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) unit at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, and she was awarded a PhD from the University of Oxford with a focus on IBD in 2018. She has received training with the National Bowel Cancer Screening team.

In addition to her clinical practice, Dr Walsh is involved in medical research, clinical governance, and charitable work. She is the cofounder and current director of Crohn’s Colitis Cure, based in Australia. She is an associate fellow at Green Templeton College of Oxford, and is currently the clinical research lead at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, part of Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, where her research involves patient-reported outcomes, remote monitoring for chronic disease, disease activity indices and faecal transplantation. Recently, she has collaborated with Mt Sinai Hospital in New York City on researching digital management and wearables to investigate the role of stress and abdominal symptoms.