Prof James East MD(Res) FRCP FJGES FESGE works as a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Endoscopist, and is an Associate Professor, based at the Translational Gastroenterology Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford.
For the last decade he was Clinical Lead for Endoscopy and is currently 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 AI in endoscopy, quality in endoscopy, serrated polyps, endoscopy in IBD, and advanced endoscopic imaging and therapy. He advises the UK National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and authored the chapters on endoscopy for the Oxford Textbook of Medicine. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and 10 international guidelines.