The Bardhan Lecture

The Bardhan Lecture has been running since 2013, and its inspiration comes from Professor Karna Dev Bardhan, known to many as Chandu. He was born in 1940 and passed away in 2023. Professor Bardhan is the beloved grandfather of Sheffield Gastroenterology. He mentored and inspired many of the existing Trainees and Consultant group in Sheffield.

Karna Dev Bardhan: gastroenterologist who pioneered peptic ulcer treatments | The BMJ 

Professor Bardhan’s profile on the BRET website

Professor Bardhan received many awards including the British Society of Gastroenterology inaugural lifetime achievement award (2016) and the Queens OBE (2001). Most of all he will be remembered for his joyous nature, curiosity, intellectual rigour and kindness. All of us looked forward to the inevitable questions from Prof at the end of any of our presentations….

To honour his memory we invite inspirational and internationally recognised speakers in our field to give the Keynote Lecture at the Annual National Sheffield Gastroenterology Symposium every September.

Bardhan Lecture Award Winners

2023 Professor Pradeep Bhandari

‘Pioneering luminal endotherapy in the UK’

2022 Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald

‘Role of cytosponge in early detection of oesophageal cancer’

2021 Professor Ailsa Hart

‘Goal setting and optimising management of fistulising perianal Crohn’s disease’

2020 Professor Dame Parveen Kumar DBE

‘Caring for the Profession: who cares’

2019 Professor Raf Bisschops

‘Standards and pitfalls in the management of early oesophageal cancer’

2018 Professor Peter Green

‘What is the status of non-celiac gluten sensitivity’

2017 Professor Dermot Gleeson

‘Autoimmune Hepatitis: a life-long disease’

2016 Professor Robin Spiller

‘Imaging the irritable bowel: New insights from MRI’

2015 Professor Paul Swain

‘Small Bowel Endoscopy’

2014 Professor Matthias Lohr

‘Do whales have a pancreas’

2013 Professor Jon Rhodes

‘Intelligence based management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease’