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.
- Prof Alastair Watson (Service Director, Prof of Translational Medicine, UEA) – IBD
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
- Dr Andrew Douds (IBD, Clinical Governance Lead, Endoscopy Academy)
Secretaries: Juliette Smith, Lynn Rodford and Steph Hate
Contact Numbers: 01603 641186 and 01603 288534
- Dr Carl Hammond (Hepatologist, Liver transplant, HCC)
Secretaries: Lesley Sarstedt and Micah Ramos
Contact Numbers: 01603 288356 and 01603 641194
- Dr Nimzing Ladep (Hepatologist, IT lead, Deputy Audit Lead)
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
- Dr Alvin Ochieng (IBD, Capsule endoscopy lead, Faecal Transplant)
Secretaries: Juliette Smith, Lynn Rodford and Steph Hate
Contact Numbers: 01603 641186 and 01603 288534
- Dr Charlotte Pither – Lead consultant in Nutrition
Secretaries: Emma Beck/Sharon Davies
Contact Numbers: 01603 641189 and 01603 288345
- Dr Martin Phillips – hepatology, ERCP, therapeutic endoscopy
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
- Dr Arun Shankar – Service Director
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
- Dr Mark Tremelling – IBD genetics, diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy
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.