Dr Charmian Banks

Dr Banks is a consultant gastroenterologist who has worked as a specialist consultant at the Royal Surrey since 2012. She is currently the lead for Inflammatory Bowel Disease seeing adults and adolescents transitioning from paediatrics. She specialises in luminal gastroenterology, meaning any part of the gut from the oesophagus, stomach, and small and large bowel. She also specialises in nutrition being a core member of the nutrition support team at the Royal Surrey.  She read medicine at the University of Southampton between 1994 and 2000 achieving & a first class Honours in her intercalated BSC and a Batchelor of Medicine. During specialist training, she rotated through London Teaching Hospitals including, Kings College Hospital, University College London Hospital and St George’s Hospital. During this time, she also completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Nutritional Medicine from the University of Surrey. She is an experienced endoscopist and endoscopy trainer and performs gastroscopy, colonoscopy and polypectomy, flexible sigmoidoscopy and placement of artificial feeding tubes. She recently qualified as a capsule reader to aid diagnosis of small bowel conditions and runs the breath test service at Royal Surrey diagnosing small bowel intestinal overgrowth. She is also an expert at treating bile salt malabsorption. 

Colonoscopy Flexible sigmoidoscopy Gastroscopy (or gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy) Diagnostic endoscopy Therapeutic Endoscopy Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy