The 17th Annual Sheffield Gastroenterology Symposium
Crowne Plaza Royal Victoria, Sheffield
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Introduction
Just as you were thinking of summer holidays do one thing before – book your time off for this meeting!
Thank you for your continued support of this meeting!
Enjoy the new Hepatology Breakfast Club, see your friends and colleagues but most of all the fun and buzz of being at the meeting in person.
This is the 17th Sheffield GI Symposium (under the auspices of the BSG).
We are lucky to have the usual amazing array of international and national speakers. Sincerely, we hope that the talks are relevant and will influence your practice.
The programme provided covers
- Some very novel areas that are emerging
- New technology (live IBD Ultrasound!)
- New therapies
- Endoscopy practice points
- and some really difficult clinical problems.
Last year your feedback evaluation forms suggested a >95% Good to Excellent rating.
Many of you have made this a regular slot in your CPD calendar and we are grateful to you for your continued support.
Best wishes,
David S Sanders
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
5 points of cpd accreditation available
Who is this meeting for?
We really want to stress that this meeting is for everyone: trainees; consultants; associate specialists; nurses from endoscopy, clinics, or GI ward background; dietitians or even junior doctors who fancy a career in gastroenterology or just an update – in fact, anyone with an interest in gastroenterology!
So please share this brochure (click to view PDF) or this web page with anyone in your department who you think may be interested.
Where is it taking place?
The Symposium takes place at the Crowne Plaza Royal Victoria, Sheffield (see Location below for directions), in person only.
How much does it cost?
The Sheffield GI Symposium is entirely free (even the parking).
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Find out more
08:30-09:30 The Hepatology Breakfast Club
Dr Deepak Joshi, Dr Jeremy Nayagam, Dr Claire Salmon & Dr Huey Tan
09:30-09:55 Welcome, registration, and coffee
Introduction: Professor David S Sanders
10:00-11:00 Session 1: Endoscopic Controversy
Chair: Dr Fred Lee, Dr Jacobo Ortiz Fernandez—Sordo & Professor Andrew Hopper
Unusual lesions in the oesophagus
Dr Andreas Hadjinicolaou
Radiological GI Stents
Dr Naomi Hersey
Lower GI Bleeding when to scope and when to stop?
Professor John Leeds
Ergonomics in Endoscopy
Dr Michelle Lau
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:30 Session 2: Small Bowel Update
Chair: Professor Reena Sidhu, Dr Priya Oka, Dr Stephen McClements
Small Bowel & Multivisceral Transplant
Dr Charlotte Rutter
SIBO and its controversies
Dr Imran Aziz
The Bardhan State of the Art Lecture: ‘Through the cakehole’ (AKA a career by accident)
Professor Mark McAlindon
12:30-13:30 Lunch & Exhibition Fair
13:30-14:30 Session 3: New Horizons
Chair: Dr Ching Lam, Dr Nicoletta Nandi, Dr Priya Mothey
Things that Gastroenterologists do that annoy me’
Mr Keith Chapple
Innovating Care: A Research Guide for Gastroenterology and Hepatology Nurses
Dr Karen Kemp
Behold Intestinal Ultrasound
Dr Josh Chew, Wendi Harrison & Dr Shanika de Silva
14:30-15:00 Coffee
15:00-16:30 Session 4: On-call Nemesis
Chair: Dr Phil Smith, Dr Shanika de Silva, Dr Viv Sakellariou
BSG guidelines Coeliac Disease
Dr Hugo Penny
H. Pylori that won’t go away (what do I do and what do I tell the patient?)
Prof Mark Pritchard
IBD Surveillance
Dr Shahida Din
Janssen Satellite Symposium
Introduction: Dr David Tai
‘Shaping the future of IBD Treatment’
Professor Gordon Moran
16:30-16:40 Chair: remarks and close of meeting
Sheffield Consultant Gastroenterologist Recognized with Prestigious Rome Foundation Academic Fellowship
Dr Imran Aziz keeps bringing the awards in!
Dr Aziz was awarded the Rome Foundation Academic Fellowship in May 2025.
The Rome Foundation is an independent organization comprising a committee of world-renowned experts dedicated to supporting the creation of scientific data and educational information to assist people living with conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
The awards ceremony, held in the United States, acknowledged Dr Aziz as a key opinion leader within the field, having contributed significantly to the services of the Rome Foundation and achieved international recognition for his work. This is on the back of Dr Aziz already being the recipient of the UEG Rising star award in 2021.
We are delighted to introduce you to Dr Mo Abdelrahim
Mo is a Consultant Interventional Endoscopist whose remit it is to expand our existing Endo-Surgery Services.
Here is Mo’s repertoire: EMR, ESD, RFA, POEM, EFTR. More awards than letters in his name! BSG UKBOR Award 2023, BSG Barbers’ Company award for trainees in Gastroenterology 2023, ESGE Innovation of The Year Award 2022, ESGE-Medtronic AI Research Award 2021, ESGE Research Champions Awards 2021 & the BSG Gut Award 2021.
So, if you are looking for advice on complex endoscopic resection or third space endoscopy cases, or perhaps to refer a case, you know who to contact. Finally, if you are looking for an advanced endoscopic fellowship, travel no further than South Yorkshire!
Our very own Professor Mark McAlindon the UK pioneer of capsule endoscopy!
Professor McAlindon is a Consultant Gastroenterologist in Sheffield. He has clinical, research and educational interests in capsule endoscopy, contributing to the development of a service which has received Movetis, Health Service Journal, Medipex, BMJ and Royal College of Physicians awards and for which he was awarded the BSG Hopkins Endoscopy prize.
Current research includes studies of small and large bowel and magnet robot-controlled upper GI capsule endoscopy. He has over 150 research publications in peer-reviewed journals, written several book chapters, contributed to national and international guidelines and co-edited the Handbook of Capsule Endoscopy (Springer, 2016).
He was a member of both BSG Small Bowel and Nutrition and Endoscopy Committees, the national Quality Improvement Lead for Small Bowel Endoscopy and represented the UK on the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Small Bowel Endoscopy Research Group. Most recently, he was a member of the NHSE advisory board overseeing the roll out of the colon capsule endoscopy pilot across England, the outcomes of which were recently published (https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.70046).
NATIONAL FACULTY
Dr Shanika de Silva Dudley Group Hospitals, Birmingham
Dr Andreas Hadjinicolaou Addenbrookes Hospital & University of Cambridge
Wendi Harrison University Hospitals Morecambe Bay Trust
Dr Deepak Joshi King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation, London
Dr Karen Kemp Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Professor John Leeds Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Dr Stephen McClements East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Blackburn
Dr Priya Mother Doncaster Royal Infirmary
Dr Pradeep Mundre Bradford Teaching Hospitals
Dr Jeremy Nayagam King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation, London
Dr Priya Oka Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Jacobo Ortiz Fernandez—Sordo Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham
Prof Mark Pritchard University of Liverpool & Liverpool University Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust
Dr Charlotte Rutter Addenbrookes Hospital & University of Cambridge
Dr Viv Sakellariou Chesterfield Royal Infirmary
Dr Phil Smith University of Liverpool & Royal Liverpool Hospital
LOCAL FACULTY
Dr Imran Aziz
Mr Keith Chapple
Dr Josh Chew
Dr Naomi Hersey
Professor Andrew Hopper
Dr Ching Lam
Dr Michelle Lau
Dr Fred Lee
Professor Mark McAlindon
Dr Nicoletta Nandi
Dr Hugo Penny
Dr Claire Salmon
Professor David S Sanders
Professor Reena Sidhu
Dr David Tai
Dr Huey Tan
Please note: The venue is now called Crowne Plaza Royal Victoria (previously Holiday Inn).
The venue – postcode S1 2AU – is easily accessible (just off the A57 on the outskirts of Sheffield City Centre, thus avoiding traffic).
This is very close to the Sheffield train station so jumping on a train from where you are brings you to within a 5 minute taxi drive or 15 minute walk to the venue. Parking is free of charge.
Turn right when you see the Metropolitan Hotel and bear left.
Continue under the archway which says “Royal Victoria”
Carry on up the driveway to the car park straight ahead.
The Sheffield Royal Victoria
The Sheffield Victoria Railway used to terminate where the meeting is being held. Thus passengers disembarked and saw the Royal Victoria Hotel.
As a result the war memorial is situated here – if you have a moment please have a look.
