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Dr John Wong is a consultant gastroenterologist in Coventry and Leamington Spa. He specialises in treating abdominal pain and indigestion, and is an expert in endoscopy, conducting investigations and treatments with gastroscopy and colonoscopy. He also performs liver function tests.
Dr Wong qualified from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 1993. He underwent specialist gastroenterology training in the West Midlands, including a rotation at the Liver Unit in Birmingham. He later undertook a research fellowship at Peninsula Middle School, which culminated in a research project, “Optimising thiopurine use in inflammatory bowel disease”, for which he was awarded an MD in 2005. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the European Board of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
In his practice, Dr Wong offers services such as endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) using a shortwire system, cholangioscopy and EHL therapy, endoscopic upper GI stenting, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG). He is a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology, the British Association for the Study of the Liver, and the British Obesity and Metabolic Specialist Society.

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