Dr peter saunders biography of michael

Consultant Gastroenterologist

Adjunct Professor of Endoscopy

Professor Brian Saunders is a specialist gastrointestinal endoscopist and luminal gastroenterologist.

His main clinical interests are the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of intestinal diseases through flexible endoscopy. He has performed >20, colonoscopies and has a particular interest in therapeutic colonoscopy (especially advanced polypectomy), endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD).

Much of his work also involves colonoscopic screening and surveillance of those patients at increased risk of developing colorectal cancer.

Professor Saunders was appointed to the consultant staff at St. Mark&#;s Hospital in and became Chief of Endoscopy in In the same year he led the successful St.

Mark&#;s bid (£ million) to become a National Endoscopy Training Centre and he chaired a National workgroup looking at quality assurance and performance assessment for screening colonoscopy. As Dir