Editorial Board
BMJ Open Gastroenterology Editorial Board members have agreed and adhere to the BMJ Editor Roles and Responsibilities guidelines; including our Editor policy on competing interests.
Editor-in-Chief
Professor Mark Beattie, FRCPCH, MRCP, MBBS, BSc
University of Southampton
Southampton, UK
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Declaration of Interests
Areas of expertise: Paediatric gastroenterology, nutrition

Editorial office: info.bmjgast@bmj.com
Associate editors
Dr James Ashton, MRCPCH, BMBS, BMedSci PhD
University of Southampton
Southampton, UK
Areas of expertise: Paediatrics
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Dr Cathryn Edwards, DPhil, FRCP
University of Plymouth Medical School & Honorary Consultant
Torquay, UK
Institutional profile >>
Competing interests >>
Area of expertise: Inflammatory bowel disease
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Dr Simon Everett MBChB, MD, FRCP
Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Leeds, UK
Institutional profile >>
Competing interests >>
Area of expertise: Endoscopy, ERCP, pancreatic-biliary medicine, inflammatory bowel disease
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Dr James Farrell, MD, MBChB
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
Institutional profile >>
Competing interests >>
Area of expertise: Professor of medicine
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Dr Alastair O’Brien, PhD, MRCP, MBBS, BSc
University College London
London, UK
Institutional profile >>
Competing interests >>
Area of expertise: Cirrhosis, immune dysfunction, infection, clinical trials, albumin
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Professor Petr Protiva, MD, MPH
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
Institutional profile >>
Area of expertise: Professor of medicine
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Dr Freya Rhodes, PhD, MRCP, MBChB (hons), BSc (hons)
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
London, UK
Area of expertise: Cirrhosis, non-invasive fibrosis tests, early detection of cirrhosis, alcohol-related liver disease, liver transplantation
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Dr Christian Selinger, MD, MSc, MRCP
St James University Hopsital
Leeds, UK
Institutional profile >>
Competing interests >>
Area of expertise: Luminal gastroenterology, inflammatory bowel disease
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Dr Arjuna Singanayagam
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
London, UK
Institutional profile >>
Competing interests >>
Area of expertise: Cirrhosis, immune dysfunction, liver failure
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Dr. Trevor Smith, DM, FRCP
University Hospital Southampton
Southampton, UK
Institutional profile >>
Expertise: Gastroenterology, clinical nutrition
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Dr Ally Speight
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Newcastle, UK
Institutional profile >>
Competing interests > >
Area of expertise: Inflammatory bowel disease, coeliac disease and other enteropathies, immune checkpoint inhibitor enterocolitis/GI complications from cancer therapy, immunology and the GI tract
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Dr Dipesh Vasant, PhD, MBChB, MRCP
The University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
Institutional profile >>
Competing interests >>
Area of expertise: Luminal gastroenterology, GI physiology, motility, neurogastroenterology,
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Statistical Reviewers
Dr Natalia Permyakova
University of Southampton
Southampton, UK
Dr Sean Ewings
University of Southampton
Southampton, UK
Social Media Editor
Dr James Ashton
University of Southampton
Southampton, UK
Trainee Associate Editors
Dr Tarun Gupta
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Dr John Ong
Cambridge University
Cambridge, UK
Founding Editor
Professor Joseph Lim, MD
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
Editorial Board
Dr Adegboyega Akere
University of Ibadan
Ibadan, Nigeria
Dr Will Alazawi
Queen Mary University of London
London, UK
Dr Naima Amrani
Centre International de Formation
Rabat, Morocco
Dr Harry Antoniades
Imperial College London
London, UK
Dr Todd Baron
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Dr Damon Bizos
Wits University
Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr Ming-Jen Chen
Mackay Memorial Hospital
Taipei City, Taiwan
Dr Luis Colombato
Buenos Aires British Hospital
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr Jack DiPalma
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL, USA
Dr Ahmed Elsharkawy
University Hospitals Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
Dr Conrado Fernandez
Hospital Universitario Fundacion Alcorcon
Madrid, Spain
Professor Graham Foster
Queen Mary University of London
London, UK
Dr Robert Gish
Stanford University
Stanford, AL, USA
Dr Ji Dong Jia
Capital Medical University
Beijing, China
Dr David Kastenberg
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dr John Leeds
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Dr Lee Guan Lim
Raffles Hospital
Singapore, Singapore
Professor Seng Gee Lim
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Dr Rohit Loomba
UC San Diego School of Medicine
San Diego, CA, USA
Dr Guilherme Macedo
Centro Hospitalar S.João
Porto, Portugal
Professor Sara Montagnese
University of Padova
Padua, Italy
Dr Anil Nagar
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
Dr Manu Nayar
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Dr Mindie Nguyen
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA, USA
Dr Rahul Pannala
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA
Dr Ian Penman
Western General Hospital
Edinburgh, UK
Professor Richard Pollok
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and St George’s University of London
London, UK
Dr Eamonn Quigley
Houston Methodist
Houston, TX, USA
Professor Vlad Ratziu
University Pierre et Marie Curie Hospital La Pitié-Salpêtrière
Paris, France
Dr Bani Chander Roland
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY, USA
Dr Sammy Saab
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dr Eugene Schiff
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, FL, USA
Dr Mitchell Shiffman
Liver Institute of Virginia
Richmond, VA, USA
Dr Jonathon Snook
Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Poole, UK
Dr Richard Sterling
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
Richmond, VA, USA
Dr Hidekazu Suzuki
Keio University
Tokyo, Japan
Professor Akinobu Takaki
Okayama University
Okayama, Japan
Dr George Triadafilopoulos
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Dr Jacques Van Dam
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dr Thomas Wang
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Professor Kevin Waschke
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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