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Dr Raj Rameshshanker
Consultant Gastroenterologist
MBBS, MD(Res), MRCP
Specialises in:
- Heartburn, reflux, abdominal pain, belching, weight loss, jaundice
- Diarrhoea, constipation, bloating, rectal bleeding, gallstones
- Abnormal liver function tests (LFTs)
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) treatment
- Liver disease treatment
- Bowel cancer screening
- Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease treatment
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Small bowel capsule endoscopy
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Colonoscopy
- Colonic polypectomy
- Upper GI endoscopy (gastroscopy)
Professional profile
Dr Rameshshanker is Consultant Gastroenterologist and advanced therapeutic endoscopist. He has a special interest in the following areas: advanced colonoscopy and polypectomy, interventions using fluoroscopy including stent placements, stricture dilatation, capsule endoscopy and ERCP; complex inflammatory bowel diseases, upper Gastro intestinal disorders, pancreato biliary disorders, complications of post cancer therapy.
He completed his specialist training in Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine within the Northwest London region. He has completed Doctorate in Medicine degree from Imperial college London in 2020. He spent four years at the Wolfson Academic Medical Institute, St. Marks Hospital, to attain advanced skills in Endoscopy including enteroscopy, capsule endoscopy and advanced colonoscopy. He had the opportunity to complete one year fellowship in ERCP at Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College NHS Trust. He was appointed as a full time NHS Consultant at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London in 2018.
He is an honorary clinical lecturer at the Imperial College London and Brunel Medical School and involved in several, multi-centre clinical research in early detection, characterisation, and treatment of colo rectal polyps and cancer. His current research interests are colorectal cancer in the young, polyp detection and removal and green endoscopy.
He is the lead clinician for Endoscopy at the Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He leads the advanced endoscopy services for the NHS Foundation Trust including advanced colonoscopy resections and ERCP. He has a wealth of experience of managing a wide range Gastrointestinal, Hepatology and pancreato biliary problems. He provides Outpatients and inpatients services at his NHS Trust. He is part of the emergency gastrointestinal bleed services team at his trust and neighbouring Harefield Hospital. He has published extensively on interventional endoscopy and quality assurance in endoscopy in peer reviewed articles for international journals. He is committed to promote endoscopy research and training.
He has given lectures on endoscopy practice at national and international conferences including British Society of Gastroenterology, European Gastroenterology and European Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and American Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
