Stuart Bloom MD

Stuart Bloom has been a consultant gastroenterologist at UCLH since 1996. Stuart studied medicine at Oxford and St Thomas’s and trained in general Medicine and gastroenterology in Oxford and Liverpool. He was an MRC training fellow at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, and was awarded his doctorate for work on adhesion molecules in the gastrointestinal tract.

He was clinical director of gastroenterology at UCLH from 2001-2006 and was chair of the inflammatory bowel disease section of the British Society of Gastroenterology from 2006 to 2009. He was chair of the consultants committee at UCLH from 2008 - 2010. In March 2008 he was appointed GI specialty lead for the central and east London comprehensive research network and from 2008-2013 he was national GI specialty lead to the UK clinical research network.

He is currently chair of the UK IBD Registry His key interests are research into gut inflammation, the clinical care of patients with inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students and in progressing electronic health records.