Meet the Team

The Nurse Endoscopy team

The Gastro team is made up of 13 Nurse Endoscopists performing diagnostic endoscopy, Bowel Cancer Screening, Capsule Endoscopy, and two week wait Rectal Bleed clinics.

Currently we undertake approximately 50% of the diagnostic lists at the Quadram Institute. and cover Bowelscope Screening Lists at the JPUH and the QEH.

We have two nurse endoscopists whose key roles are as Specialist Screening Practitioners in the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme but who also support the Bowelscope Programme.

Nearly every diagnostic list performed by the four senior nurse endoscopists is a training list, with Registrars/Nurses in training allocated lists, they have all undertaken Train the Trainer in Endoscopy teaching.

Sarah El-Salamani is an Associate on the Health Education England non clinical endoscopist Training Programme and also teaching faculty at St Thomas’s hospital.

Jane Cook is a JAG (Joint Advisory Group) assessor, Nurse Faculty on the JAG approved courses, accredited Bowel Screening Colonoscopist and an associate lecturer at the University of East Anglia School of Nursing.

The gastro department is home to a team of specialist doctors and nurses. Please find below profiles of consultants within the department.

Secretaries: Sara Stickland, Megan Little and Chloe Leggett

Contact Numbers: 01603 641195 and 01603 288864

  • Dr Syed Alam – hepatology, transplant medicine, endoscopy

Secretaries: Jane Markland, Alisha Stewart and Suzanne Rickenback

Contact Number: 01603 641192 and 01603 641186

  • Dr Ian Beales (UEA Reader) – dyspepsia, medical education, clinical trials, acid-peptic disorders, IBD

Secretaries: Sara Stickland, Megan Little and Chloe Leggett

Contact Number: 01603 641195 and 01603 288864

  • Dr Neil Bowron (Nutrition, Intestinal Failure, Mediviewer link person)

Secretaries: Emma Beck, Amy Garner and Sharon Davies

Contact Numbers: 01603 641189 and 01603 288345

  • Dr Bernard Brett –  IBD, ERCP, Bowel Cancer Screening Luminal Gasteroenterology and Medical Management (currently Deputy MD)

Secretaries: Rachel Lane and Rob Thom

Contact Numbers: 01603 641188 and 01603 288610

  • Dr Simon Chan – IBD epidemiology, clinical IBD, diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy

Secretaries: Kim Clapham, Kerry Girdlestone and Chloe Leggett

Contact Numbers: 01603 288358 and 01603 641190

  • Dr Anups Desilva – IBD lead, Bowel Cancer Screening, therapeutic endoscopy and Medical Education

Secretaries: Sara Stickland, Megan Little and Chloe Leggett

Contact Numbers: 01603 641195 and 01603 288864

Secretaries: Juliette Smith, Lynn Rodford and Steph Hate

Contact Numbers: 01603 641186 and 01603 288534

Secretaries: Lesley Sarstedt and Micah Ramos

Contact Numbers: 01603 288356 and 01603 641194

Secretaries: Rachel Lane and Rob Thom

Contact Numbers: 01603 641188 and 01603 288610

  • Dr Sathish Mogan – ERCP/ EUS and advanced endoscopy and hepatobiliary disorders

Secretaries: Natalie Hardingham/Frankie Keller

Contact Numbers: 01603 641193

Secretaries: Juliette Smith, Lynn Rodford and Steph Hate

Contact Numbers: 01603 641186 and 01603 288534

Secretaries: Emma Beck/Sharon Davies

Contact Numbers: 01603 641189 and 01603 288345

Secretaries: Lesley Sarstedt and Micah Ramos

Contact Numbers: 01603 288356 and 01603 641194

  • Dr Simon Rushbrook  – hepatology, PSC genetics, endoscopic ultrasound, ERCP, hepatobiliary medicine and liver transplantation

Secretaries: Natalie Hardingham/Frankie Keller

Contact Numbers: 01603 641193

Secretaries: Jane Markland, Alisha Stewart and Suzanne Rickenback

Contact Numbers: 01603 641192 and 01603 641186

  • Dr Richard Tighe –  screening colonoscopy, endoscopy training, therapeutic endoscopy, IBD, ERCP

Secretaries: Rachel Lane and Rob Thom

Contact Numbers: 01603 641188 and 01603 288610

Secretaries: Kim Clapham, Kerry Girdlestone and Chloe Leggett

Contact Numbers: 01603 288358 and 01603 641190

A number of surgeons with expertise in gastroenterology also work within the department.