Holiday Inn, Victoria Quays, Sheffield Thursday April 26th and Thursday May 17th 2012

Dr Kumar Basu was appointed Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield in 2002. He has worked and trained in Gastroenterology units in Leeds,

Leicester and Derby. His main areas of interest include gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, therapeutic endoscopy and upper and lower GI dysmotility disorders. He was one of the first to publish on endoscopic ablation of Barretts oesophagus using APC

Dr Dermot Gleeson is a Consultant Hepatologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. His interests include alcoholic and autoimmune liver disease

Dr Andrew Hopper is a Gastroenterology Consultant at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. After an initial MD investigating the endoscopic diagnosis of coeliac

disease, Dr Hopper went on to perform an advanced endoscopy fellowship at Westmead University Hospital, Sydney, Australia. With this research and experience Dr Hopper currently specialises in diagnostic and interventional endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and complex endoscopic mucosal resection of the gastrointestinal tract.

Dr Mohammed Karajeh is a Consultant Hepatologist in Sheffield. He graduated from Dundee University in 1993 and undertook his gastroenterology and hepatology

training in Sheffield and Leeds. He has a special interest in functional biliary disorders.

Dr Alan Lobo has been a Consultant Gastroenterologist in Sheffield since 1994. He has developed a range of clinical services including the dyspepsia clinic, the GI haemorrhage

Unit and more recently an ambulatory care service. In addition, he has developed a large, multidisciplinary Inflammatory Bowel Disease service. He was a co-author of the British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines for the management of inflammatory bowel disease in 2004. Current roles include: member of the BSG

Inflammatory Bowel Disease committee, chairman of the NICE guideline development group for ulcerative colitis and member of the NICE guideline development group for Crohn’s disease.

Dr Mark McAlindon has been a Consultant Gastroenterologist in Sheffield since 1998 and trained in Nottingham, Stoke-on-Trent and Melbourne, Australia. He was

a British Digestive Research Training Fellow 1994-6 researching molecular mechanisms in inflammatory bowel disease. His current interests are in capsule endoscopy, nutrition and inflammatory bowel disease. He is chair of the UK Capsule and Device-assisted Enteroscopy Group, a member of the BSG Endoscopy Committee and co-directs the Lumley Castle Capsule Course with Carolyn Davison. In 1973 he was Haltemprice Egg and Spoon Champion.

Professor David S Sanders is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital & the University of Sheffield. He has published >200 papers. His

clinical research interests include coeliac disease, gastrostomy feeding, small bowel endoscopy, irritable bowel syndrome and gastrointestinal bleeding. In 2010 he was delighted to receive the European Rising Star Award in GI research and the Coeliac UK Healthcare Professional of the Year Award. He is fortunate to work as part of the Sheffield Small Bowel Service which won one of the inaugural BSG National GI Care awards in 2011. He is the recent recipient of the Cuthbertson Medal (2011) for research undertaken in clinical nutrition. He has no apparent friends or social life.

Dr Reena Sidhu graduated with honours from Ireland in 1999. Reena undertook her gastroenterology training in Sheffield. Her MD (awarded in 2009) was on small

bowel endoscopy and she has published widely on the subject. She is also part of the faculty of the national (Lumley) capsule endoscopy course. Reena is the first author of the BSG guidelines on Small Bowel Endoscopy (Gut 2008) and currently provides a tertiary CE and DBE service.

The Sheffield GI Primary Care SymposiaUpdate in Gastroenterology

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A New Primary Care & Secondary Care Interface Service:

Gastroenterology and Hepatology Ambulatory Care Service based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital The service is designed to provide rapid access, rapid throughput investigation and diagnosis for stable patients. Patients who are unstable, require resuscitation or those in danger of deteriorating should be admitted through the usual acute admissions channels at the Northern General Hospital.

has sponsored this meeting

Ambulatory Care Service• Monday - Friday• 8:30am - 4:30pm• Ward P1 - GI Clinical Investigation

Unit, Royal Hallamshire Hospital • First point of contact:

0114 226 8871A nursing sister on the Clinical Investigation Unit will immediately plan the care for your patient with the GI consultant of the day.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Royal Hallamshire Gastroenterology and Liver Unit wins one of the inaugural National Gastroenterology Care Awards.

Staff on the Gastroenterology and Liver Unit (ward P1 and P2) at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital were delighted to win one of the inaugural National Gastroenterology Care Awards. This was an open competition held by the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) for the first time and judged by the Chief Executive of the BSG and other experts in the field (prize £5000). For this reason we have used some of the award to sponsor a National Gastroenterology Primary Care Study day. This, we hope, will give us a chance to meet General Practitioners, GP Registrars and Nurse Practitioners and put names to faces and hopefully vice versa! Please take a moment to read on.

Secondary Care Services and InnovationFollowing reconfiguration, the Gastroenterology Services, at STH are sited at both the Northern General and Royal Hallamshire Hospitals. There are 5 consultants who work predominantly at the NGH site and 7 based predominantly at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital site. Both sites have in-patient beds, out-patient clinics and endoscopy facilities. Both sites are taking acute admissions and deal with any GI emergencies

Specialist services for inflammatory bowel disease, small bowel endoscopy (capsule endoscopy and enteroscopy), coeliac disease and nutrition are based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital site.

The Inflammatory Bowel Disease service is one of the largest in the UK and Dr Alan Lobo remains an active researcher in inflammatory bowel disease and is currently involved in developing NICE guidelines for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

The Coeliac specialist clinic has the largest patient cohort in the UK and was the recipient of the Coeliac UK (National Patient Charity) Health Care Award (2010).

Dr Mark McAlindon, Professor David Sanders & Dr Reena Sidhu provide the small bowel endoscopy service which has the largest capsule endoscopy experience in Europe. They are all co-authors of National guidelines.

The Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage Unit is based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and receives referrals directly from across South Yorkshire. It has one of the lowest mortality rates for GI bleeding in the country.

Dr Dermot Gleeson and Dr Mohammed Karajeh run the sub-regional Liver Unit based on Ward P2 on the Hallamshire site. The Unit attracts large numbers of referrals from throughout the region with challenging liver disease, including viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis and variceal bleeding. Plans for 2012 include developing a service for Trans- Jugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts, and acquiring a fibroscan for non invasive assessment of fibrosis. Dr Gleeson is a co-author of the National (BSG) guidelines on the management of patients with Auto-immune hepatitis

Dear Friends & Colleagues,

We hope you will consider taking part in these 2 half-day meetings exclusive to General Practitioners, GP Registrars and Nurse Practitoners in Primary Care.

The idea behind this meeting is to try and provide an update in many different areas of our practice. These two symposia provide an opportunity to discuss topics relevant to primary care with Consultants who have an interest or expertise in these fields. The topics have been selected by General Practitioners and we hope they reflect GI problems/consultations occurring every day in General Practice. We hope to provide an update in these areas with an evidence based overview as well as case based discussions.

The meeting is entirely free. There are 100 places available for each meeting. We have to pay for the delegates upfront and for this reason I really want to make a plea that if you have registered and are not able to attend please let us know so we can let someone else use that place.

To register please email Deborah.French@sth.nhs.uk with your name, practice, contact number and email address. Please stipulate whether you are coming to (a) the first symposium on Thursday April 26th, or(b) the second symposium on Thursday May 17th, or (c) both.

The venue is easily accessible (just off the A57 on the outskirts of Sheffield City Centre, thus avoiding traffic). Parking will cost the reduced delegate rate of £5 (normally costs £8) and is the only thing you will need to pay for. This is done on entrance or exit to the hotel. All delegates will be provided with relevant papers and reviews which will hopefully augment talks (on the day). Places are limited to the first 100 applicants for each meeting.

We do hope you will attend - thank you in anticipation.

Best wishes,

David S Sanders, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Why are we holding this meeting?The Sheffield GI Primary Care Symposia

Thursday April 26th, 2012 Thursday May 17th, 2012

1.30-2.00 Welcome and Registration (Tea, coffee and biscuits available)

Chairs: Dr Jayne Atkinson and Dr Reena Sidhu

2.00-2.20 Advances in IBS Casebaseddiscussion Professor David S Sanders

2.20-2.40 Bowel cancer screening and polyp follow-up - What’s it all about?! Dr Andrew Hopper

2.40-3.00 How do I manage Non-Alcohol Associated Fatty Liver (NAFLD) Casebaseddiscussion Dr Mohammed Karajeh

3.00-3.15 PanelDiscussion

3.15-3.45 Break (Tea, coffee and biscuits available)

3.45-4.00 How to recognise IBD in patients with non-specific GI symptoms Dr Mark McAlindon

4.00-4.20 Management of low vitamin B12, folate or ferritin - Who to investigate and when? Casebaseddiscussion Dr Reena Sidhu

4.20-4.30 H. Pylori Test, treat, test, treat, test! Dr Alan Lobo

PanelDiscussionandChairs’closingremarks

Closeofmeeting and evaluation forms (please!)

1.30-2.00 Welcome and Registration (Tea, coffee and biscuits available)

Chairs: Dr Susie Lupton and Dr Alan Lobo

2.00-2.20 But Doctor, I am sensitive to gluten! Professor David S Sanders

2.20-2.40 Primary care treatment options for an Inflammatory Bowel Disease flare-up Dr Alan Lobo

2.40-2.50 Small Bowel Endoscopy - What’s it all about? Dr Reena Sidhu

2.50-3.00 A patient with persistent reflux Casebaseddiscussion Dr Kumar Basu

3.00-3.15 Panel Discussion

3.15-3.45 Break (Tea, coffee and biscuits available)

3.45-3.55 Management of suspected GI bleeding in primary care Dr Andrew Hopper

3.55-4.15 Abnormal liver function tests Casebaseddiscussion Dr Dermot Gleeson

4.15-4.30 An update on the ambulatory care service Dr Alan Lobo

PanelDiscussionandChairs’closingremarks

Closeofmeeting and evaluation forms (please!)