Gastro London

Professor Lovat was educated at University College London School of Medicine. He won a prestigious MRC Research Training Award to take an intercalated degree in Nutrition for which he was awarded 1st Class Honours. He then won an MRC Research Training Fellowship to do his PhD at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at the Hammersmith Hospital (now part of Imperial College). He was appointed as a senior lecturer at University College London and a consultant at UCH in 1999.

Specialist in:

• Indigestion
• Acid Reflux
• Barrett‘s Oesophagus
• Cancer Prevention
• Crohn‘s Disease
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Endoscopy
• Colonoscopy
• Therapeutic Endoscopy

Professor Lovat was a scholar at the City of London School. He qualified from University College Hospital Medical School having also gained a first class honours degree in nutrition. He received a prestigious MRC research fellowship to fund his PhD studies at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. He then trained in advanced therapeutic endoscopy at University College London Hospitals and was appointed a Consultant Gastroenterologist & Senior Lecturer in 1999. He was appointed as the first Head of the newly established Research Department for Tissue and Energy at UCL and was awarded his professorship in 2014 based on the quality of his research into complications of acid reflux disease and minimally invasive treatment to prevent and treat oesophageal cancer.

BSc MBBS PhD FRCP

Alexandra organises all procedures and is the central point of contact for all patient queries.

Consultant Gastroenterologist & Director of Endoscopy UCLH

Honorary Senior Research Associate, UCL

Dr. Haidry is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at University College Hospital, London, one of the country’s leading teaching hospitals. He trained at St Mary’s Hospital in London and completed his Gastroenterology training in North East London. He was then appointed to a prestigious two-year academic fellowship at UCLH where he examined state of the art diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic techniques in the gastrointestinal tract, including endoscopic treatment of early cancers. He is the director of endoscopy for the division of gastroenterology at University College Hospital, one of the largest units in the country. He has extensive on going expertise in general gastroenterology and hepatology. He continues to be involved actively in several national and international clinical trials in his field.

Specialist in

• Heartburn, indigestion and acid reflux
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Barrett’s Oesophagus and Radiofrequency Ablation
• Abdominal bloating and discomfort
• Diarrhoea & Constipation
• Inflammatory Bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s Disease)
• Small bowel bacterial overgrowth and the use of probiotic therapy
• Food intolerances

Consultant Gastroenterologist & Honorary Senior Lecturer

Farooq Rahman is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at University College Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London. He studied medicine at The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London and completed his Gastroenterology specialist training on the prestigious North East London rotation. He obtained his PhD studying the immunopathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. He remains actively involved in undergraduate/postgraduate teaching and research at UCLH/UCL, regularly presents at national and international meetings, and has multiple high impact peer-reviewed publications.

He is a luminal Gastroenterologist with extensive experience in general gastroenterology and hepatology. His subspecialty interests include inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal failure & clinical nutrition and endoscopy/polypectomy. He also regularly sees patients with irritable bowel syndrome, diverticular disease, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, bile salt malabsorption, radiation enteritis, and conditions such as dyspepsia, acid reflux, diarrhoea, constipation, abdominal pain, bloating, anaemia, and food intolerances.

Subspecialty interests

Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis), clinical nutrition & intestinal failure, irritable bowel syndrome, Coeliac disease, gastrointestinal cancers. Gastroscopy/colonoscopy/polypectomy

Dr Sweis is a specialist in endoscopy with particular expertise in investigating and managing complex benign and malignant upper gastrointestinal disorders.

He has particular expertise in conditions such as achalasia, oesophageal spasm as well as reflux-related disorders such as heartburn and regurgitation. He also has a specialist interest in using advanced endoscopic techniques to classify and treat Barrett’s oesophagus. Furthermore he is an experienced colonoscopist.

Dr Sweis is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at University College London Hospital. He completed his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1994) and his medical education from Edinburgh Medical School (1999). He trained in Gastroenterology at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, Kings College Hospital and South East Thames. He completed his PhD at Kings College London in 2012. He was appointed at UCLH in March 2014 as Consultant in Gastroenterology & Upper GI Medicine. He is also Upper GI Physiology Unit Lead at UCLH