2023 Award Winners
Dietitian Recognition Award
Ms Catherine Hayes
Salford Care Organisation, Northern Care Alliance
Project Title: Impact of early dietetic intervention on nutritional outcomes for patients with oesophago-gastric cancer in Greater Manchester
Supervisor: Mrs Kellie Owen
Essay Prize Winner
Ms Ho Kiu Giselle Ngan
University College London Medical School
Project Title: A Genome-wide Association Study of Non-alcoholic Liver Disease in India
Supervisor: Professor Andrew McQuillin
Ms Rebecca Angus
University of Nottingham Medical School
Project Title: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between alcohol consumption and postoperative outcomes in gastrointestinal surgery
Supervisor: Dr David Humes
F1/F2 Research Award
Dr Charlotte Burford
King’s College Hospital, London
Project Title: Jejunal Mucosal Microbiome in Biliary Atresia
Supervisor: Dr Vandana Jain
Nurse Prize
Ms Pearl Avery
St Mark’s Hospital, London
Project Title: An Advanced Nurse Practitioner with a Special Interest in GI Evaluation of Patient Benefit
Supervisor: Dr Rachel Stow
Pharmacist Recognition Award
Mrs Kate Travers
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Project Title: A Three-Month Patient Review of Biologic Medicines for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Supervisor: Abbie Oglesby
Ms Rebecca Turley
Queens Hospital, Romford
Project Title: Pharmacist-led Interventions to Improve Compliance with Hepatitis B Screening Prior to Starting Rituximab
Supervisor: Mr Stuart Hill
SPR trainee Audit / Quality Improvement Award
Dr Nadir Abbas
University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust
Project Title: Liverdojo.com ‘Know your Liver’: A patient education website and YouTube channel that aims to provide video information on liver related conditions in commonly spoken languages in the UK.
Supervisor: Dr Neil Rajoriya
Student Prizes
Mr Advait Upadhyaya
Barts and the London School of Medicine
Project Title: The Development of unified Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome/Hypermobile Spectrum service for patients with concomitant Functional Dyspepsia and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Supervisor: Dr Asma Fikree
Ms Olivia Green
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
Project Title: The Clinical Utility of the FRAX Tool in Coeliac Disease: the Largest Biopsy-Proven Cohort Study
Supervisor: Professor David Sanders
Ms Radhika Shah
University of Southampton Medical School
Project Title: The role of matrix metalloproteinases in metabolic syndrome and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Supervisor: Dr Sylvia L. F. Pender PhD
Ms Veena Shivakumar
University of Sheffield Medical School
Project Title: Capsule Endoscopy is Safe, Effective and Avoids the Need for Gastroscopy in a Varices Surveillance Programme: An Observational Cohort Study
Supervisor: Professor M. E. McAlindon