Dr Alistair McNair

I was appointed as a Consultant Gastroenterologist at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South East London in 1997. I manage a wide variety of disorders affecting the intestine and liver. I undertake many diagnostic endoscopic procedures of the stomach - gastroscopy and transnasal endoscopy, small bowel - capsule endoscopy and large bowel - colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy. Therapeutic endoscopic procedures undertaken include Polypectomy, stent insertions and balloon dilatations. I am an accredited bowel cancer screening colonoscopist. I was Clinical Director for Gastroenterology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital from 2016 to 2020. I was Secretary of the endoscopy section of the British Society of Gastroenterology from 2009 to 2012 and was the BSGE representative on the Royal College of Anaesthetists working party developing guidelines for ensuring safe sedation practice for healthcare procedures. I was Regional Gastroenterology Training Programme Director. In 2009 I was given a Bronze National Award for my research and work for national and regional organisations.

Interests include inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome - IBS, Coeliac disease, dyspepsia, heartburn - acid reflux, Barrett's oesophagus, abdominal pain, colorectal cancer - bowel cancer, gastric cancer - stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, gall stones, biliary colic, liver disease including abnormal liver function tests, fatty liver, cirrhosis.