Dr Akeel Alisa

Dr Akeel Alisa is a Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist, Hepatologist and Physician based in London. He practises privately at Cromwell Hospital, Mayo Clinic Healthcare, Circle Health Hospitals, Spire Bushey Healthcare and Royal Free London Private Patients & Knightsbridge Digestive Care. Alongside his private practice, he works as a Consultant Gastroenterologist, Hepatologist and Physician at the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital.

Dr Alisa graduated in Medicine from the University of Cambridge, Girton College, in 1993. He subsequently trained at several leading London hospitals including King’s College Hospital, University College London and St George’s Hospital. He later completed an MD (Research) at University College London in 2012 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London.

He is the Founder and Director of Leaders in Gastrointestinal Care London (LGCL), a multidisciplinary consortium of gastrointestinal specialists providing services across a number of private hospitals in North and Central London. He also serves as Medical Director and Lead in Endoscopy and Gastroenterology for Elective Services. In addition, he is Lead in Endoscopy at Hadley Wood Hospital and Lead in Endoscopy Training at Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals. He is also faculty at St George’s National Endoscopy Training Centre and United European Gastroenterology.

Dr Alisa specialises in gastroenterology, hepatology and advanced endoscopy. His areas of expertise include irritable bowel syndrome, food intolerance, coeliac disease, acid reflux, abdominal pain, inflammatory bowel disease, anaemia, gastrointestinal bleeding, liver disease, cirrhosis, fatty liver disease, pancreatic disease and digestive tract cancer screening.

He performs both diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures, including gastroscopy, colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, capsule endoscopy, complex polyp removal by endoscopic mucosal resection, gastrointestinal stenting, stricture dilatation and PEG/PEJ feeding tube procedures. He also provides non-invasive liver assessment including FibroScan testing.

Alongside his clinical practice, Dr Alisa has undertaken research at the Institute of Hepatology, focusing on cirrhosis and the UK’s first living-related liver transplant programme. He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and regularly speaks at national and international meetings. He is a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology, British Association for the Study of the Liver, British Medical Association, United European Gastroenterology and the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.