Gastroenterology

The Wakefield Gastroenterology Centre is a specialist centre in which surgeons and physicians work alongside each other in an effort to provide the highest standards of care for patients with gastrointestinal diseases. The investigation, treatment and care of patients are combined with teaching programmes and associated research.

The Centre's medical staff are committed to the highest standards of clinical practice. They are highly qualified and experienced gastrointestinal surgeons and physicians and currently include:

Dr Vinton Chadwick MA, MD(Cantab), MSc, FRCP, FRACP	Mr John Groom BSc, MBChB(Otago), FRACS
Gastroenterologist-endoscopist; previously Head of Gastroenterology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK; former Professor of Medicine and Director of Wellcome Medical Research Institute, University of Otago. Special interests include inflammatory bowel disease, allergic and functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.	Gastrointestinal surgeon; also visiting surgeon to Hutt Hospital. Formerly Fellow of St Mark's Hospital, London, UK. Special interests include laparoscopic surgery, colonoscopy, colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, disorders of defaecation and perianal problems.

Mr Richard Stubbs MBChB, MD(Otago), FRCS, FRACS	Dr Ian Wilson BSc MBChB(Otago), FRACP
Hepatobiliary, pancreatic and upper gastrointestinal surgeon; previously of Wellington School of Medicine and formerly the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK and UCLA, Los Angeles, USA. Special interests include liver cancer, hydatid disease, pancreatic disease and surgery for severe obesity.	Gastroenterologist-endoscopist; formerly Fellow at the Liver Transplant Unit, Melbourne, Australia. Special interests include ERCP. Hepatology, and inflammatory bowel disease.