Professor Daniel Forton

Consultant in Gastroenterology and Hepatology in London

BSc MB BS PhD FRCP

GMC: 4024332

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Professor Daniel Forton is a respected London-based consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist. Specialising in diseases of the liver and gastrointestinal system, he holds appointments at St George's University Hospital and Medical School. His special interests include the medical and endoscopic management of diseases of the liver, pancreas and bile ducts. He is a skilled endoscopist, performing diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, including ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography) in addition to upper GI endoscopy and colonoscopy. He maintains a busy practice, always aiming to make his patients feel comfortable whilst offering them the most up to date and effective care possible. He is motivated to accurately understand symptoms in order to move rapidly to the correct diagnosis and treatment. He is often asked to give second opinions.

Professor Forton qualified in medicine at University College London in 1993 and then undertook specialist training in London teaching hospitals and performed important scientific research and clinical trials in the area of viral hepatitis. After gaining his PhD at Imperial College London, he was appointed a Consultant in 2005 and now has many years of experience in managing both common and complex clinical conditions. He takes a special clinical interest in abnormal liver function tests, fatty liver, alcohol-related liver disease, cirrhosis, Fibroscan, liver and pancreatic cancer and viral hepatitis. He also treats indigestion, bowel symptoms, colonic polyps and investigates gastrointestinal cancer.

Currently Associate Medical Director for Research at St Georges Hospital and reader in hepatology, he publishes extensively in peer-reviewed journals and lectures at international meetings. He was awarded the Dame Sheila Sherlock Research Medal for his research in liver disease. Professor Forton is a keen advocate of evidence-based medicine and continues to be a leading investigator in clinical trials of novel treatments in a range of liver diseases. He is a founding partner at the London Gastroenterology Partnership and consults privately at Parkside Hospital and Spire St Anthony's, all in London. He complies with insurance company fee schedules.

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GMC: ‍4024332

Professional experience

• More than 30 years of experience
• Consultant Hepatologist / Gastroenterologist, Parkside Hospital, London (present)
• Consultant Hepatologist / Gastroenterologist, Spire St Anthony's Hospital (present)
• Consultant Hepatologist / Gastroenterologist, St George's University Hospital (2005 - present)
• Consultant Hepatologist / Gastroenterologist, London Gastroenterology Partnership (present)

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Sub-specialties

• Abdominal pain
• Abdominal ultrasound
• Alcohol related liver disease
• Alcoholism
• Ascites
• Autoimmune hepatitis
• Barrett's oesophagus
• Biopsy
• Bloated stomach
• Cholelithiasis (gallstones)
• Chronic diarrhoea
• Cirrhosis
• Coeliac
• Colic
• Colitis
• Colon cancer
• Colonoscopy
• Colorectal cancer
• Constipation
• Diverticulitis
• Drug induced liver injury
• Dysphagia
• Endoscopy
• ERCP
• Fatty liver
• FibroScan
• Food intolerance
• Gastric reflux
• Gastrointestinal bleeding
• Gastrointestinal endoscopy
• Gastroscopy
• Halitosis
• Helicobacter pylori
• Hepatic encephalopathy
• Hepatobiliary
• Hepatorenal syndrome
• Hiatal hernia
• Indigestion (dyspepsia)
• Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
• Lactose intolerance
• Lactose intolerance test
• Liver biopsy
• Liver cancer
• Liver cyst
• Liver disease
• Liver function tests
• Liver surgery
• Liver transplant
• Malnutrition
• Obesity
• Oesophageal varices
• Pancreatic cancer
• Pancreatitis
• Polypectomy
• Polyps
• Radiofrequency treatment
• Rectal cancer
• Rectosigmoidoscopy
• Second medical opinion
• Stent
• Stomach cancer
• Stomach ulcer
• Ultrasound
• Viral hepatitis
• Cryosurgery
• Haemangioma
• Haemochromatosis
• Hepatocellular carcinoma
• Pruritus (itchy skin)
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Positions in public associations

• Associate Medical Director at St Georges Univerity Hospital, London (present)
• Co-chair of South London Hepatitis Operational Delivery Network (present)
• Board member of the South London Clinical Research Network (present)

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Teaching posts

• Lecturer on the undergraduate MBBS course, St George's Univeristy of London
• Endoscopy trainer within the National Endoscopy Training Centre at St George’s University Hospital
• Educational supervisor for doctors training in Gastroenterology
• Former external examiner for Medicine Finals at Imperial College (three years) and the Gastroenterology module at Swansea University
• Clinical Lecturer in Medicine, Imperial College (2003-5)
• Professor of Practice (Hepatology) at St George's University of London

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Education

• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London (2007)
• PhD, Imperial College, London (2004)
• Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London (1996)
• MB BS, University College, London (1993)

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Prizes and awards

• Dame Sheila Sherlock Research Medal, British Association for the Study of the Liver (2002)
• Research Fellowship awarded by European Association for the Study of the Liver (2001)

Professional membership

• Royal College of Physicians
• British Association for the Study of the Liver
• American Association for the Study of the Liver
• British Viral Hepatitis Group

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Languages spoken

English
French
German