Hugh McMurtry
Job Title: Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist
Department: Medicine
Telephone Number: 01257 245496
Primary Medical Qualification: MB ChB
Other Qualifications: FRCP
Year of Registration: 1993
GMC Number: 3585944
Career History: Qualified from the University of Manchester in 1992. Undertook specialist training in gastroenterology and general medicine in North West England, including period of time as Clinical Training Fellow in Health Services Research, Centre for Cancer Epidemiology, University of Manchester. Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals (2004-present)
Specialist Areas: General gastroenterology and hepatology including endoscopy; inflammatory bowel disease; chronic liver disease; pancreatobiliary disease; dyspepsia; irritable bowel syndrome and other functional GI disorders
Specialist Interests: Advanced endoscopy (ERCP, colonoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound); upper gastrointestinal and pancreatobiliary cancer; education and training of junior doctors (Royal College of Physicians Tutor at Chorley)
Research Interests: Barrett's oesophagus - principal investigator in the trust for the Multicentre Barrett's Oesophagus Surveillance Study (BOSS)
Clinics: Gastroenterology Clinic
Languages Spoken: English
Awards and Prizes: British Society of Gastroenterology grant to attend Advanced Endoscopy Update 2008, Digestive Disease Center University of South Carolina