#GUTBlog: Early-life exposures and the microbiome: implications for IBD prevention

Professor El-Omar has selected Professor Tine Jess to do the next #GUTBlog. Professor Jess is Director of the National Center of Excellence for Molecular Prediction of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, PREDICT, at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark. She is MD from University of Copenhagen, DMSc from University of Copenhagen and Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, and Fellow of the Royal Danish […]

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#GUT Blog: Early management of acute severe UC in the biologics era: development and international validation of a prognostic clinical index to predict steroid response

Professor El-Omar has chosen Dr Alex Adams and Professor Jack Satsangi to do the next #GUTBlog.  Dr Adams and Professor Satsangi are from the Translational Gastroenterology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. The #GUTBlog focusses on the paper “Early management of acute severe UC in the biologics era: development and international validation of a prognostic […]

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#GUT Blog: Efficacy of biological therapies and small molecules in induction and maintenance of remission in luminal Crohn’s disease: systematic review and network meta-analysis

Professor El-Omar has chosen Professor Alexander Ford and Dr Brigida Barberio to do the next #GUTBlog. Professor Ford is from the Leeds Gastroenterology Institute, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, and the Leeds Institute of Medical Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK and Dr Brigida Barberio is from the Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology (DISCOG), Gastroenterology Unit, University of Padova-Azienda […]

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#GUT Blog: Predicting endoscopic remission in Crohn’s disease by the modified multiplier SES-CD (MM-SES-CD)

Professor El-Omar has chosen Dr Neeraj Narula and Ms Emily Wong to do the next #GUTBlog. Dr Neeraj Narula is Associate Professor of Medicine at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada and Ms Emily Wong is a Research Assistant at the same institution. The #GUTBlog focusses on the latest paper “Predicting endoscopic remission in Crohn’s disease by the modified multiplier SES-CD (MM-SES-CD)” which […]

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#GUT Blog: International consensus to standardise histopathological scoring for small bowel strictures in Crohn’s disease

Professor El-Omar has chosen Dr Ilyssa O. Gordon and Dr Florian Rieder to do the next #GUTBlog. Dr Ilyssa O. Gordon is Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Her research focus is the diagnosis and categorization of intestinal fibrosis in inflammatory bowel diseases.  Dr Florian Rieder is Vice Chair of the Department […]

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#GUT Blog: Multicentre derivation and validation of a colitis-associated colorectal cancer risk prediction web tool

Professor El-Omar has chosen Dr Kit Curtius and Dr Misha Kabir to do the next #GUTBlog. Dr Curtius is affiliated to the Centre for Genomics and Computational Biology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK and the Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA. Dr Kabir is affiliated […]

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#GUTBlog Adaptations to the British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on the management of acute severe UC in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a RAND appropriateness panel

Professor El-Omar has chosen Dr Peter Irving from the Department of Gastroenterology, Guy’s and Saint Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Trust, London and Dr Shahida Din from the Department of Gastroenterology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK, to do the next #GUTBlog. The #GUTBlog focusses on the paper “Adaptations to the British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on the management of […]

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#GUTBlog New UK Guidelines on the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Adults from the British Society of Gastroenterology

For our first #GUTBlog, Professor El-Omar has invited Dr Chris Lamb and Dr Barney Hawthorne who are together the first and senior author of the British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on the management of inflammatory bowel disease in adults published in Gut.     Dr Chris Lamb is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Newcastle upon Tyne […]

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