The Winners
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2023 Award Winners

Dietitian Recognition Award

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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

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Essay Prize Winner

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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

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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

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F1/F2 Research Award

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Dr Charlotte Burford

King’s College Hospital, London

Project Title: Jejunal Mucosal Microbiome in Biliary Atresia

Supervisor: Dr Vandana Jain

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Nurse Prize

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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

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Pharmacist Recognition Award

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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

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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

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SPR trainee Audit / Quality Improvement Award

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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

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Student Prizes

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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

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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

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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

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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

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