Professor Miles Parkes

Professor Miles Parkes is a consultant gastroenterologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. He qualified from Oxford University (BA, 1st Class) and Imperial College, London (MBBS) and worked in London for three years before returning to Oxford for specialist training. He was appointed as a consultant gastroenterologist at Addenbrooke's in 2001, and as Director of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy in 2004.

• He has a particular interest and expertise in diagnostic gastroenterology, including endoscopy and colonoscopy, and management of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, coeliac disease and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).  
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Professor Parkes holds a Bronze National Clinical Excellence Award in recognition of his services to the NHS.

Research interests include trials of new therapies in gastrointestinal disease and investigating the molecular genetic basis of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Professor Parkes heads an internationally renowned IBD research group and chairs the UK IBD genetics research consortium. This work has mainly been funded by the Wellcome Trust, the MRC and Crohn's and Colitis UK, and has resulted in a large number of publications and articles in high impact journals including Nature, Cell and Nature Genetics. He has also authored chapters for many textbooks, including the Oxford Textbook of Medicine which is widely regarded at the doctors bible, and is regularly invited to teach and lecture at home and at conferences in Europe, the USA and Australia.