Immunosuppression and gastrointestinal disease and trainees’ prize meeting

Dr Emma Nicholson is a consultant haematologist with a specialist interest in stem cell transplantation and acute leukaemia. She graduated from Glasgow University in 2020 and undertook her postgraduate haematology specialist training in Glasgow and London. She was awarded a PhD in 2013 from University College London and her research focused on T cell receptor gene therapy. She was appointed as a consultant haematologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital in 2016 and has been the transplant programme director since 2020. She is clinical lead for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and stem cell transplant in teenage and young adult patients, for clinical trails in stem cell transplant for chimeric antigen receptor T cells in haematological malignancies.

Dr Lucia Possamai graduated from Edinburgh University in 2004. She undertook post-graduate training in Edinburgh and Cambridge, where she discovered her fascination and commitment to hepatology as a specialty. She undertook an Academic Clinical Fellowship at Imperial College in Gastroenterology and Hepatology and was awarded an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 2010. Her PhD investigated genetic and immunological factors affecting outcome in paracetamol induced acute liver failure. Post-doctoral research as a Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College involved the development of in vivo models of drug induced liver injury, novel intravital imaging techniques and the study of immunotherapy related hepatitis. Dr Possamai is currently a Consultant Hepatologist at St Mary’s Hospital and continues a clinical and research interest in immune-mediated and drug-induced acute liver injury. She runs a specialist liver injury clinic and has developed guidelines on the management of immunotherapy related liver injury for Imperial College NHS Trust and The Royal Marsden Hospital.

Professor Richard Pollok is Gastroenterologist working at St George’s University of London. He has a longstanding interest in GI infection and IBD having published widely in this field.

Dr Doug Macdonald is a consultant hepatologist at the Royal Free Hospital and Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. He has been running a specialist clinic for GI and liver complications of immunotherapy since 2017.