Qualifications
- Medical School: University College Hospital, London
- Qualification: MB BS
- Date of award: 1988
- Other degree or qualification: University of London
- Qualification: MD - Doctor of Medicine
- Date of award: 1996
Awards and Prizes
Hopkins Endoscopy Award British Society of Gastroenterology 1996
Video Prize British Society of Gastroenterology 1999
J. Edward Berk Award American College of Gastroenterology 2004
Oration award Indian Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2006
Professional profile
Dr. Brian Saunders is a specialist gastrointestinal endoscopist and luminal gastroenterologist. His main clinical interests are the diagnosis and prevention of intestinal diseases through endoscopy (colonoscopy, gastroscopy, capsule enteroscopy, push enteroscopy) and the management of inflammatory bowel disease. He has particular expertise in therapeutic endoscopy including polypectomy, endoscopic mucosal resection, stenting, stricture dilatation and thermal ablation of bleeding lesions as well as the screening and surveillance of those at increased risk of colorectal cancer due to a family history, personal history of polyps or longstanding colitis. Dr. Saunders was appointed to the consultant staff at St. Mark’s Hospital in 1997 and became Chief of Endoscopy in 2003. In the same year he led the successful St. Mark’s bid to become a National Endoscopy Training Centre. As Director of the Kennedy-Leigh Academic Endoscopy Unit at St. Mark’s he supervises a team of 12 research clinicians working on new techniques to improve the management of gastrointestinal diseases through the use of flexible endoscopes. In 2005 he also became Dean of the Academic Institute at St. Mark’s Hospital and is responsible for post-graduate education within the hospital and for the organisation each year of a major International conference on luminal gastroenterology. Dr. Saunders qualified from University College Hospital in 1988 and was trained in general medicine and then gastroenterology and endoscopy in London and Melbourne Australia. He achieved MRCP in 1991 (FRCP 2002) and was awarded an MD from the University of London in 1996 for his work into “making colonoscopy easier” which formed the basis of his award for the Hopkin’s Endoscopy prize from the British Society of Gastroenterology in 1996. He has authored more than 80 scientific papers, written 13 book chapters and has given more than 100 invited lectures or live demonstrations of Endoscopy throughout the World. In 2002 he gave the Foundation lecture at the British Society of Gastroenterology on “therapeutic colonoscopy” and was the J Edward Berk lecturer at the American College of Gastroenterology in 2004.
Research interests
Therapeutic colonoscopy
Endoscopy Education
Enhancing neoplasia (polyp) detection at colonoscopy
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