Professor Prof James East

Prof James East MD(Res) FRCP is one of Europe’s leading colonoscopists. He works as a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Endoscopist, and is an Associate Professor, based at the Translational Gastroenterology Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford. He is the Clinical Lead for Endoscopy and Clinical Director of Bowel Cancer Screening Oxfordshire. He trained in Edinburgh, Cambridge and London, with a research fellowship at St. Mark’s Hospital leading to an MD(Res) from Imperial College. He received the British Society of Gastroenterology’s Hopkins Prize on the basis of this work. His research interests include quality in endoscopy, serrated polyps, endoscopy in IBD, and advanced endoscopic imaging and therapy. He was elected to the British Society of Gastroenterology Endoscopy Committee in 2015 and advises the UK National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and is the inaugural chair of the JAG research committee.

Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (OGD); heartburn; gastro-oesophageal reflux; Barrett's oesophagus; nausea; vomiting; swallowing problems; abdominal pain; stomach ulcers; diarrhoea; constipation; irritable bowel syndrome (IBS); small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO); coeliac disease; gluten intolerance; inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); colonoscopy; flexible sigmoidoscopy; colonic polyps; adenomas; serrated polyps; iron deficiency; rectal bleeding; blood in stool; bowel cancer screening; faecal occult blood test (FOBT); faecal immunochemical test (FIT) endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR); family cancer; genetic risk;