This website was created by Dr Venkat Mahesh to increase awareness of gastroenterological conditions in the general public. Healthcare professionals please access ''journalguru.com'' and ''mrcpguru.com'' for latest updates in the field of medicine. Managers in the NHS trust please visit http://aacres.co.uk/ for waiting list management advice and support.

 

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About me

I graduated from the medical school in the year 2000, subsequently have spent 12 years training initially in 'General Internal Medicine' and later in 'Gastroenterology and Hepatology' in various hospitals in the UK, mostly North West, both in liver transplant tertiary university hospitals and district general hospitals, thereby acquiring broad knowledge and experience. This was further supplemented by my advanced interventional endoscopy fellowship in Australia. I have started as consultant gastroenterologist at Blackpool Victoria hospital in 2012. I am the lead clinician for nutritional related issues in the hospital and lead therapeutic endoscopy provider for 'Lancashire and South Cumbria cancer network'

External resources

Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Gastroenterologist and Physician, Blackpool Victoria hospital
Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist and Physician, Royal Preston hospital
Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Buckingham University
Medical Performance Assessor, General Medical Council

Research interests

Barrett's Oesophagus
Clinical Nutrition
Interventional endoscopy ( Endoscopic Ultrasound, ERCP and other interventions)

Personal interests

Sports- Tennis, Badminton
Travel- mainly to historical sites
Spend time with my young kids !

QUALIFICATIONS

    • MBBS BANGALORE UNIVERSITY 2000
    • MRCP- UK- GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS - UK 2005
    • MRCP- UK- GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS - UK2010
    • FEBGH EUROPEAN BOARD OF GASTROENTEROLOGY 2012
    • PGDip -(Gastro / Hepatology) Salford University 2012
    • PGDip- Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism- European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition- 2016

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

  • Advanced Interventional Endoscopy fellowship Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia 2012

DETAILS OF ENTRY TO SPECIALIST REGISTER

  • Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine, 2012

AFFILIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS

British Society of Gastroenterology
American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
Manchester Medical Society

AWARDS RECEIVED

FEBGH- 2012

Languages spoken

English
South Indian languages and Hindi

Publications

Many gastroenterology and hepatology journals

Courses offered to GPs

I am happy to talk about general gastroenterology, liver and nutritional issues

Areas of interest

  • Dyspepsia;
  • Barrett's Oesophagus;
  • Irritable bowel syndrome-IBS;
  • Chronic abdominal pain;
  • Colonic microbiota
  • Inflammatory bowel disease- IBD;
  • Gastrointestinal cancer;
  • Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy

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