Dr. Deepak Kejariwal

Dr Deepak Kejariwal is an experienced Consultant Gastroenterologist with more than 18 years of consultant practice. He works at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, where he is the lead consultant for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and has held a number of senior clinical and leadership roles within Gastroenterology, Medicine and Urgent & Emergency Care.

He has extensive experience in general gastroenterology and the investigation and treatment of gastrointestinal symptoms including abdominal pain, indigestion and reflux, altered bowel habit, diarrhoea, constipation and rectal bleeding. His particular areas of expertise include inflammatory bowel disease, endoscopy and gastrointestinal disorders requiring diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic treatment.

Dr Kejariwal is an experienced endoscopist performing gastroscopy, colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy, including therapeutic procedures such as polyp removal. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research Interests

Dr Kejariwal has a longstanding interest in clinical research and has been involved in both NIHR and commercial clinical studies. His principal research interests include inflammatory bowel disease, endoscopy, gastrointestinal cancer and nutrition. He has contributed to clinical studies and publications covering IBD therapies, iron-deficiency anaemia in IBD, Barrett's oesophagus and oesophageal cancer, endoscopic practice and gastrointestinal cancer.


Special / Clinical Interests

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) – Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy – gastroscopy, colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy
Bowel symptoms – rectal bleeding, diarrhoea, constipation and change in bowel habit
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and other functional gastrointestinal symptoms
Upper gastrointestinal disorders – indigestion, reflux, swallowing difficulties and peptic ulcer disease
Coeliac disease and nutritional gastrointestinal disorders
Liver disease and abnormal liver function tests
Colonic polyps and bowel cancer investigation/surveillance
Gastrointestinal cancer assessment, including oesophageal and stomach disorders