Dr Chris Fraser

Dr Fraser is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Spire Edinburgh Hospitals (Murrayfield and Shawfair Park) and The Edinburgh Clinic, Scotland. He was previously Consultant Gastroenterologist at St Mark's Hospital, Harrow for 10 years before his appointment to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He qualified MB ChB from Edinburgh University in 1992 with post graduate training in Aberdeen, Birmingham, Manchester and London. He achieved MRCP in 1996, was awarded an MD in 2004 for studies in the neurophysiologic control of swallowing and became FRCP in 2009. He undertook the 1st advanced endoscopy fellowship at The Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy at St Mark's Hospital in 2003. While at St Mark's, he was a nationally accredited NHS bowel cancer screening specialist in colonoscopy. He continues to perform colonoscopy for the Scottish National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in Edinburgh. Dr Fraser consults at The Spire Murrayfield and Shawfair Park Hospitals and The Edinburgh Clinic. Dr Fraser's endoscopic procedures are carried out in The Spire Shawfair Park Endoscopy Unit.

Dr Fraser's clinical interests include acid reflux and other functional gastrointestinal-type conditions and symptoms (e.g. heartburn, sore throat, voice loss, cough and wheeze; swallowing difficulty; burping, bloating and gassiness; nausea, vomiting and early fullness after eating; abdominal pain; diarrhoea, constipation and straining), food intolerance and allergy (e.g. coeliac disease), bowel cancer screening, prevention and surveillance; gut polyposis syndromes, iron deficiency anaemia, small bowel disorders, obscure gastrointestinal bleeding and obesity. His endoscopic interests include diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic techniques e.g. gastroscopy, transnasal endoscopy, small bowel and colon capsule endoscopy, double balloon enteroscopy, advanced colonoscopy and laparoscopically assisted endoscopy, to investigate and treat patients. He also has a special interest in endoscopic anti-reflux treatment using the Stretta procedure. Dr Fraser has recently introduced to his practice, the technique known as electrogastrography (EGG) for the investigation of patients with dyspepsia and gastroparesis (delayed gastric emptying). He provides the full range of state of the art GI physiology tests to ensure patients receive the best possible care and investigation including oesophageal pH-impedence and HRM, Restech, gastric emptying, ano-rectal physiology, Smart Pill and breath testing (for SIBO, colonic dysbiosis, H.pylori and lactose, fructose and sucrose intolerance).