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Professor Anthony Axon

Name:
Professor Anthony Axon MB BS (Hons) Distinction in Medicine, MD, FRCP
Practising at:
Spire Leeds Hospital
Specialties:
  • Gastroenterology
    Special clinical interests:

    Medico-legal reports only

    Year of first medical qualification:
    1965
    Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
    British Society of Gastroenterology, President 2000 - 2001
    North of England Gastroenterology Society, President 1999 - 2001
    European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, President 2000 - 2002
    World Organisation of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, President 2005 - 2009
    United European Gastroenterology Federation, President 2006-2007
     
    Contact Details 
    Telephone number to make a private appointment:
    0113 218 5908/9 or 0113 269 3939 ext 2416
    Private secretary:
    Mrs Deborah Turner
    Private secretary telephone number:
    0113 269 3939 ext 2416, 07778 393 039
    Private secretary fax:
    0113 218 5975
    Private secretary email address:
     
    Background Information 
    Professional profile:

    Professor Anthony Axon qualified at Bart's, London University, in 1965 and moved to St Thomas' Hospital in 1968 for further postgraduate education. In 1975 he was appointed to The General Infirmary at Leeds as a general physician and consultant gastroenterologist, working in the NHS and privately in general medicine and gastroenterology. 

    Professor Axon retired from the NHS in 2006, but continued with his private practice until 2011.

    He now just undertakes medico-legal reports at Spire Leeds Hospital.

    Personal profile:
    Professor Anthony Axon is a Cornishman but attended Woodhouse Grove School, Bradford, from the age of nine until 18, returning to Yorkshire in 1975. He is married with three children and eight grandchildren. 

    Professor Axon enjoys gardening, reading and travel.

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    Professor Anthony Axon

    Professor Anthony Axon, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Endoscopy, Colonoscopy and Bowel Disease, Spire Leeds, Private Hospital, Roundhay, Leeds, Yorkshire

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