Clinical masterclass series - Episode 4: Making surgeons redundant

Dr Charles Murray is a Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust where he is also Clinical Director for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy. He served as Senior Secretary of the British Society of Gastroenterology from 2009-2013.

Dr Murray is currently Chair of the Education Committee of United European Gastroenterology, and Past President of the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Dr Murray was awarded the Moti L. and Kamla Rustgi International Fellowship by the American Gastroenterological Association in 2005, and in 2007 was the Functional Brain-Gut Research Group Young Investigator of the Year.

Mark gained experience as a clinician and researcher at specialist IBD centres in England, The Netherlands, Canada and the US. His international experience was undertaken as part of an “International IBD Clinical Trials Fellowship” with Robarts (now Alimentiv). He has participated in and led a broad spectrum of original IBD research projects and has been published in several high impact journals. In addition, he has co-authored several book chapters on IBD and worked as a Bibliographic Fellow on the IOIBD international consensus process regarding treatment targets in IBD (STRIDE).

He was awarded the ‘St George’s Young Researcher of the Year Award’ in 2015 and again in 2016. He was runner up for the 2016 ‘BSG Alistair McIntyre Prize’ for improving education by founding the London IBD SpR Training Group. In 2017 he received an ‘RCP/NIHR CRN Award for Outstanding Research Leadership in the NHS’ and an ECCO Travel Award. In 2018 he was named the ‘BSG Young Gastroenterologist of the Year for Clinical & Translational Science’ and received another ‘RCP/NIHR CRN Award for Outstanding Research Leadership in the NHS’. He was chosen as an ‘Advanced IBD Fellow’ for the Cornerstones program at DDW 2016, 2017 and 2018. In 2021 he was awarded an NIHR CRN Principal Investigator Greenshoots initiative award.

He was the trainee member of UK Clinical Research Network: Gastroenterology National Specialty Group for three years and now sits on the Young-ECCO (Y-ECCO) committee. He spent three years as Clinical Research Fellow at Guy’s and St Thomas’, investigating therapeutic drug monitoring for biologic agents in IBD, as part of an MD program at Kings College London. He is now a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Guy’s & St Thomas’ as well as Cleveland Clinic London.

Dr Rehan Haidry is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and interventional endoscopist at UCLH and CCL where he is the clinical lead of endoscopy. His main areas of clinical & academic interest are in pre-malignant and malignant disorders of the upper gastrointestinal tract, with a particular interest in Barrett’s neoplasia, Squamous neoplasia, oesophageal cancer and advanced interventional endoscopy for these conditions with ablation and resection.

He carries out minimally invasive treatments for acid reflux with Transoral incisionless Fundoplication (TIF) & Stretta and is among a few U.K. endoscopists to carry out metabolic & bariatric endoscopic procedures such as Duodenal mucosal resurfacing (DMR), POSE and Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty (ESG).

Dr Natalie Phillips is a Gastroenterologist specialising in Pancreatobiliary medicine. Dr Phillips graduated from Guy's and St Thomas' Medical School, London in 2003 with distinction and trained in London with a period of specialist training in Australia. She is also trained in advanced endoscopy including luminal stenting, Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS).

She has a Masters in Translational Medicine completed at Imperial. Currently she is involved in clinical studies for novel treatments in pancreatic cancer. Her roles include unit and endoscopy training lead at Hammersmith Hospital. Outside medicine she enjoys spending time with her family and travelling.