Brian Saunders MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCS

Professor Brian Saunders is a Consultant Gastroenterologist, Specialist Endoscopist and Partner at OneWelbeck, specializing in diagnostic and screening colonoscopy, and advanced polypectomy. He has performed more than 30,000 colonoscopies, is the Director of Bowel Cancer Screening for North West London; and has pioneered many of the major developments in colonoscopy in the last 20 years. After qualifying from University College Hospital in 1988, he joined St Mark’s Hospital as a consultant in 1997. By 2003, he was appointed their head of endoscopy.

Part of the team that led the successful bid for St Mark’s to become a National Endoscopy Training Centre, he is now Director of the Kennedy-Leigh Academic Endoscopy Unit. Here, he supervises a team of research clinicians dedicated to improving the management of gastrointestinal diseases through the use of flexible endoscopes – pioneering procedures which can significantly improve cancer prevention and patient safety. Professor Brian Saunders partnered with OneWelbeck in 2018 to collaboratively develop the OneWelbeck Digestive Health Centre. He used his extensive experience to help select the most modern equipment utilizing the latest technology to enhance polyp detection and cancer prevention.

Professor Saunders has authored or co-authored 160 scientific papers and written more than 15 book chapters. He is also the co-author of the highly renowned, Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and has been a guest editor of the North American Clinics of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy journal.