Dr Robert Mead

In the last year before taking up my consultant post in the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, I practiced at Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge, focusing on endoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease, and diarrhoeal illnesses. I have been in my current post over five years with a gastroscopy success rate of 99.9% and colonoscopy success rate of 99.6% in bowel cancer screening patients.

I studied at University College London gaining distinction in my final examination. I was awarded prizes in general academic study, pharmacology and medicine. I initially worked in the professorial hepatology and gastroenterology unit at the Royal Free Hospital before moving closer to my family in Dorset and Hampshire. While training as a specialist gastroenterologist I spent six years in four national centres of excellence, including Southampton University and Cambridge University Hospitals. I researched into the early detection of and surveillance for oesophageal and colorectal cancers becoming an academic Doctor of Medicine in 2013.

Endoscopy has been a long held interest of mine, with fellowships in Queen Alexandra Hospital Portsmouth, a national centre of excellence and in Tokyo Japan, a world centre of endoscopic excellence. I have published on endoscopic techniques aimed at improving the quality and comfort of procedures in the upper and lower gut.

I am responsible for teaching endoscopy to gastroenterology trainees and have been a faculty member and lecturer on courses, teaching advanced endoscopic techniques.