Dr Anthony Hobson

Clinical Scientist
PhD

Practising at

Spire Tunbridge Wells Hospital

Treatment information

Some of the principal treatments carried out by Dr Anthony Hobson at Spire include:

Gastroenterology at Spire Tunbridge Wells Hospital

Other treatments

High resolution oesophageal manometry 24 hour ambulatory pH and impedance monitoring Gastric emptying Hydrogen and methane breath testing SmartPill (the wireless motility capsule) for assessing pan-enteric function

Professional profile

I began my training as a GI Clinical Scientist in 1991 at Hope Hospital in Salford, under the tutelage of Mr John Bancewicz and Professor David Thompson. There I completed my training in a broad range of gastrointestinal physiological techniques, measuring pharyngeal, oesophageal, gastric, small bowel and ano-rectal function.

In 2003, under the supervision of Professor Qasim Aziz and in collaboration with Professor Paul Furlong at Aston University, I gained my PhD from Manchester University, using advanced brain imaging techniques to map oesophageal pain processing regions. I also pioneered the technique of oesophageal cortical evoked potentials for use in phenotyping patients with non-cardiac chest pain and non-erosive reflux disease into specific clinical sub-types.

Clinical Interests

Neurophysiology

Upper GI Physiology . High resolution oesophageal manometry. 24 hour ambulatory pH and impedance monitoring. Gastric emptying. Hydrogen and methane breath testing. SmartPill (the wireless motility capsule) for assessing pan-enteric function. Special clinical interests: Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. Non-Cardiac chest pain. Swallowing disorders. IBS. Dyspepsia. Gastroparesis.

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