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Nicholas J. Talley

Nicholas J. Talley MBBS, PhD, MMed Sci (Clin Epi)

Healthcare Management, Gastroenterology
Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

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Laureate Professor Talley is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor, Global Research at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He previously held an appointment as Pro Vice-Chancellor (and Dean) of the Faculty of Health and Medicine at the University of Newcastle from 2010-2015. He was seconded to be the Deputy Vice-Chancellor-Research (Acting) at the University of Newcastle from June 2013 to March 2014.

He has published over 1,000 original and review articles in the peer-reviewed literature, and is considered one of the world’s leading gastroenterologists (H index 119, Scopus). He is also a leading clinician and educator, as well as the author of the highly regarded textbooks Clinical Examination and Examination Medicine with Dr Simon O’Connor. In June 2014, he was inaugurated as one of the first 15 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS) and was elected to the Executive of the Academy.

Nick was formerly Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida where he held the rank of Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at Mayo Clinic, and was the Foundation Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, Nepean Hospital for nearly a decade.

Nick is a Senior Staff Specialist at John Hunter Hospital and attends clinic and lists on a weekly basis. Heserves on a number of prominent boards, currently edits a major international journal (Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics), is a section editor for Up To Date, and currently holds adjunct research appointments as Professor at Mayo Clinic, University of North Carolina and the Karolinska Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (and President), the Royal College of Physicians (both London and Edinburgh), the American College of Physicians, the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Gastroenterological Association.

His research is primarily focused on functional gastrointestinal disorders, dyspepsia, Helicobacter pylori, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and eosinophilic disorders of the gut. He has recently described (with his team) a new disease entity in adults, eosinophilic duodenitis, linked to functional dyspepsia. His group has documented a genetic component in upper and lower functional bowel diseases. He is considered one of the world's leading authorities in clinical research on the stomach.
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