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Gastroenterologist
London, SW1W 8RH
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Marcus Harbord was appointed a Consultant Physician & Gastroenterologist at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in 2006, specialising in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), colorectal cancer and colonoscopy. He was lead clinician of the Gastroenterology Department 2007-2016.
He was previously a consultant physician at the Royal Free Hospital. After leaving Eton College, he completed medical studies at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1992, with further training at UCL, the Royal Free, and St Mark's Hospital. He was awarded a PhD in biochemistry by UCL in 2002. He was an editorial board member of Inflammatory Bowel Disease 2006-2016; chairman of the New Consultants' Committee at the Royal College of Physicians 2009-2011; an elected member of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) guidelines committee 2013-2016 and chairman of this committee 2015-2016. He is responsible for two new European guidelines, Extra-intestinal manifestations in IBD (2016) and Ulcerative colitis (2017).
He is the main author of the ECCO e-guide, a web-based global learning resource that has converted all ECCO guidelines into an interactive, algorithmic learning tool. He is co-author of a textbook, Emergencies in Gastroenterology & Hepatology, published by Oxford University Press in 2013. He is principle investigator for the UK twin IBD registry, undertaking collaborative studies with other European centres in epigenetics and metabolomics. In 2019 he founded WikiMed LDA, a not-for-profit, Med-Tech initiative to provide medical diagnosis and healthcare advice for the poorest people in the world. He lives between London and Lisbon.
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I can recommend Dr Harbord most highly as a very respected, experienced and knowledgeable gastroenterologist. He is respected and well liked by his peers and always shows wise and sensible clinical judgement.
Dr Simon Anderson