Lisa has over 20 years’ experience working as an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) nurse specialist and has been responsible for the creation and development of IBD nursing services at The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, St Mark’s Hospital/LNWH NHS Trust, and The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health.
Lisa has published on topics including IBD treatment and the contribution of specialist nurses to the management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease and has contributed to several collaborative publications looking at the provision of IBD care both nationally and internationally, including N-ECCO consensus statements for IBD nurses, the 2019 BSG guidelines and ECCO standards of care.
Since March 2019 she has been employed as Project Manager, IBD Nursing, with Crohn’s & Colitis UK, working with Isobel Mason and the charity’s Health Service Development Team on their campaign ‘More IBD Nurses – Better Care’, aiming to increase IBD nursing numbers throughout the UK and standardise training and support for nurses in post.
In April 2020 she started working as an IBD Nurse Consultant at St Mark’s Hospital in Harrow

Lucy has been an IBD Nurse Specialist since 2004 working in London and she is currently the Lead IBD Nurse at King’s College Hospital.
She has been running the Patient Education programme with CCUK for many years and is hoping to be able to restart in one form or another.

Glyn is Consultant Nurse for Gastroenterology & Endoscopy at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust.  Within this role he is the Trust Clinical Lead for the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Service.  He is working on developing and increasing the Trusts Nurse Led IBD service. Prior to this role he had a varied career in nursing working within IBD, nutrition, critical care, and management roles. Glyn is passionate about improving the patient experience and using evaluation strategies to continually monitor and improve the care delivered to the patient.  He has always had a keen interest in using the workplace to develop staff to support the delivery of the highest levels of care. He has a wide portfolio of conference presentations both nationally and internationally and is constantly inspired by the good practice shared by all the presenters.

My passion for nursing began as a teenager when I volunteered for a local charity looking after children with disabilities. My nursing career started in 2002 at Queens University Belfast. My first job as a paediatric staff nurse in 2005, was in a busy general paediatric medical ward in the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. I worked there for over thirteen years, and I absolutely loved it! There, I looked after children and adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). I really enjoyed working with the CF families, getting on especially well with the teenagers. I envisaged a specialist nurse in this field, never dreaming that I would become an IBD nurse, until I met Tracy Close, my partner in crime!
During my second maternity leave, Tracy contacted me, asking if I would be interested in an IBD nurse specialist post. Tracy was so persuasive and passionate about her role that she got her way. So here I am, five years later and I still love it (most days!). The job encompasses the care of children with IBD, hepatology and parenteral nutrition. I enjoy the multidisciplinary working of our team and how each professional inputs to deliver as good care as possible.

I am a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Queen’s Hospital and the Digestive Diseases Centre (DDC) London. I have a specialist interest in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ulcerative colitis (UC) and complex endoscopy, including lesion resection, ERCP and EUS. I completed my undergraduate training from University College London Medical School with distinction. My specialist training was in the London Deanery, including University College and Royal London Hospital, followed by an advanced fellowship in Sydney, Australia. During this time, I conducted research on endoscopy, UC, and the treatment of early gastro-intestinal cancer.
I enjoy teaching and training within Gastroenterology – I am clinical lead for Education and Training at my Hospital Trust and act as faculty on national teaching courses. I am also the London Endoscopy Academy NEL ICS Lead, JAG Regional Training Centre Lead and Associate College Tutor for the Royal College of Physicians London. I have multiple publications in peer-reviewed Gastroenterology journals and regularly present my work at international conferences.

Professor Richard Russell is Paediatric Gastroenterologist working in the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh.
He is the clinical lead of PGHAN services in the east of Scotland. He is current chair of the ESPGHAN “Porto” IBD group.
He was awarded a PhD for an investigation into the genetic determinants of PIBD in children in 2008.
He has published around 180 research papers the vast majority in PIBD including all major GI journals which include previous and forthcoming ECCO/ESPGHAN PIBD guidelines.
He is an active clinical researcher in PIBD with a strong interest especially in dietary treatment of Crohn’s disease.

Dr Philip Smith is an Honorary Consultant Luminal Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Liverpool being appointed in October 2018, having trained in London. His specialist interests include IBD, intestinal failure and transition. He was an NIHR Research Scholar in the North-West Coast CRN and Chair of the Mersey Gut Club. He did his research into IBD in London at UCL after getting an MRC research training fellowship.
He is the Chair of the BSG Elected Councillors and was a member of the BSG AYP committee and previous IBD section member and has written and co-authored BSG guidelines in transition and IBD. He is a group lead for the 2024 BSG IBD guidelines. Dr Smith is also the Digital and Education Editor of Gut, and Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology after being Trainee Editor in the past. He is the past Chair of the BSG trainees’ section and a previous BSG President’s Medal Winner. He was trustee of CICRA and GUTS UK until recently and remains trustee of IBD Passport. He has published over 180 papers as an author and co-author and written 5 books. He is a patient with Crohn’s disease himself, after being diagnosed almost 30 years ago as a teenager.

I am a qualified paediatric nurse with 24 years’ experience in the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. I qualified from Queens University Belfast June 1999. My background is surgical, and it is here I developed my love for IBD.
I have been in this role now for 15 years, providing regional care for NI patients with inflammatory bowel disease, liver conditions, liver and small bowel transplants and home parenteral nutrition.
As well as my work, I have love for the charity Dreamflight, which take 192 children with chronic, long-term illness to Florida for 10 days every year.
My greatest achievement has always been my career, but now it is becoming a foster mum this year, whilst completing the dreaded Nurse Prescribing course… which I can now say with a smile, I did so successfully! I MISS my sleep!

Lucy graduated from the University of Surrey in Nutrition and Dietetics before completing an MSc in Public Health with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Lucy undertook a Nutrition Fellowship year in Haiti in child malnutrition before moving to London and working in the NHS in Dietetic roles specialising in gastroenterology and colorectal surgery. Lucy worked at St Marks Hospital as a Specialist IBD Dietitian until recently moving to Homerton University Hospital as Lead Dietitian for parenteral nutrition and surgery. Lucy is currently enrolled in the Non-Medical Prescribing course and is a member of the British Dietetic Association gastroenterology specialist group and Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Specialist group. Lucy maintains a specialist interest in IBD and is passionate about promoting the role of the Dietitian in IBD care.

Mr. Kapil Sahnan is is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at St Mark’s Hospital, London and a Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Surgery & Cancer, at Imperial College London.
He specialised in inflammatory bowel disease, complex proctology and robotic surgery. He has trained as a surgeon in Oxford, Bristol, London and completed the prestigious ESCP/Intuitive accredited fellowship in robotic surgery at the Val D’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona.

Fiona graduated from University of Brighton in 2006 and trained at Chelsea & Westminster and Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals completing her Post-Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy and Non-Medical Prescribing course. Fiona has been within the University Sussex Hospitals Gastroenterology team since 2019, and now leads the team with a focus on autoimmune hepatitis, viral hepatitis and IBD. High-level educational skills have been developed via roles at Health Education England Pharmacy teams, University of Sussex, General Pharmaceutical Council and Royal Pharmaceutical Society. In 2015 Fiona was awarded RPS Faculty Level 2; Advanced Practice and in 2020 the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Global Health Fellowship. Fiona is a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) Inflammatory Bowel Disease committee and UK Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA) Gastroenterology committee and has led and contributed to publications via BSG, European Crohn’s & Colitis Organisation and International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP).

Professor Arebi is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at St Mark’s National Bowel Hospital in London. As the Director of the IBD Service, she leads a team of specialist doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and dietitians. On a national and international level, she was an elected member of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) as chair of the Adult and Young Persons committee, and the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) as the chair of the EpiCom committee. Her academic activities include lectures, setting up courses and supervision of research students. Her research interests cover the epidemiology of IBD, evolution of stricture in Crohn’s disease, improving quality of care in IBD and optimising therapeutics. She is currently a lead on section of the BSG guideline development group, as well leading a Priority Setting Partnership with the James Lind Alliance on research priorities for digital technologies for adolescents and young people with IBD.

I am a Consultant Gastroenterologist working at King’s College Hospital, London. I have a specialist interest in inflammatory bowel disease and advanced endoscopic techniques. During my specialist training I have gained experience managing patients with complex IBD at several London teaching hospitals. My PhD thesis focused on advanced endoscopic imaging techniques, including the role of these technologies in ulcerative colitis to predict microscopic disease activity. I have several peer review publications and international conference presentations relevant to the field of IBD.

I have been a nurse for 21 years in the field of colorectal surgery and stoma care. My first nursing role was as a military nurse serving in the Royal Air Force. In 2002, I joined St Mark’s Hospital in London, working on the colorectal ward before joining the stoma team in 2004 as a Specialist Nurse, managing patients with stomas, ileoanal pouches and enterocutaneous fistulae. I spent 12 years developing the ileoanal pouch service. In 2018, I became a Consultant Nurse, where I remain dedicated to contributing to pre and post graduate nurse education, publishing in a variety of medical and nursing journals and presenting at national and international conferences. In 2020, I completed a secondment with NHS Supply Chain working on a national project aimed to identify factors that could improve efficiencies and processes within stoma care. I was awarded the British Journal Nurse of the Year Award 2023 for innovation and digitalisation of services during the pandemic.