Dr Alissa Walsh

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Dr Alissa Walsh (DPhil FRACP) is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and Nuffield Health, The Manor Hospital, Oxford. Dr Walsh has extensive international experience in clinical gastroenterology and endoscopy, including diagnostic and therapeutic gastroscopy and colonoscopy. She has received training with the National Bowel Cancer Screening team. Dr Walsh has a sub-specialty interest in inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis).

Dr Walsh completed her gastroenterology training in Australia and was awarded her consultancy from the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 2006. In 2007-2008 Alissa was a Clinical Fellow at the John Radcliffe Hospital. From 2008 Alissa was the Head of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Unit at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney. In 2018 Alissa completed a PhD at the University of Oxford, focusing on Inflammatory Bowel Disease. She has subsequently become part of the Consultant Gastroenterology team at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

Dr Walsh is renowned for being a leader and is a compassionate doctor who delivers the best quality of care for her patients. Her clinical and research interests include patient-reported outcomes, chronic disease remote monitoring, disease activity indices, and faecal transplantation. Digital management and wearables to investigate the role of stress and abdominal symptoms is one of her current projects. Dr Walsh also has an interest in teaching and is an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

Dr Walsh is the cofounder and a current director of a medical charity, Crohn's colitis Cure. She is also a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology and European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation.