Professional experience

• More than 35 years of experience
• Gastroenterologist, Dr Stuart Bloom LTD (present)
• Gastroenterologist, Platinum Medical Centre, Wellington Hospital (present)
• Gastroenterologist, Physicians Clinic, Devonshire Street (present)
• Gastroenterologist, Admitting Rights at King Edward VII hospital and The London Clinic (present)
• Consultant Gastroenterologist, University College London Hospitals (UCLH) (1996 - present)
• Medical Research Council Training Fellow, Institute of Molecular Medicine (1991 - 1994)
• Senior House Officer and later Medical Registrar, the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

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 Sub-specialties

• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Reflux/Heartburn/Ulcer
• Digestive problems
• Food intolerance
• Anal fissure
• Barrett's oesophagus
• Bloated stomach

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 Positions in public associations

• Chair, UK IBD Registry (2012 - present)
• Chair, UK NIHR GI Specialty group (2008 - 2013)
• Chair of Consultants Committee , UCL Hospitals (2008 - 2010)
• Chairman, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Section of the British Society of Gastroenterology (2006 - 2009)
• Chairman of the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, University College London (2006 - 2008)
• Clinical Director, Department of Gastroenterology, University College London Hospitals (2001 - 2006)
• Chair, NE Thames Training Committee in Gastroenterology (1997 - 2001)
• National chair of trainees in Gastroenterology (1994 - 1996)

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 Teaching posts

• Reader in the department of Medicine at University College London (2008)
• Lecturer and Senior Registrar in the Royal Liverpool Hospital (1994 - 1996)
• Tutor, medical undergraduates from the Royal Free and University College London Medical School; twice been cited as a ‘valued teacher’
• Designed the day release programme for North East Thames’ trainees ‘Day Release’ Training in Gastroenterology (1997; still in use)

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 Education

• Medical Research Council Training Fellow, Institute of Molecular Medicine: researching the role of adhesion molecules in the gastrointestinal tract, with a special interest in Inflammatory Bowel diseases (IBD). (1991 - 1994)
• MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery), St Thomas Hospital (1981 - 1984)
• First Class Degree, Physiological Sciences, Oxford University (1978 - 1981)

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 Prizes and awards

• President's medal, British Society of Gastroenterology for services to gastroenterology (2013)
• Leslie Parrott Prize, National Association of Crohn’s and Colitis (1994)
• Martin Wronker Prize, University of Oxford (1981)
• Scholarship, University of Oxford (1978)

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 Professional membership

• Member, Specialist Training Committee in Gastroenterology for NE Thames (1997 - 2006)
• American Gastroenterology Association
• British Society of Gastroenterology

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