Professor Reena Sidhu

Professor Sidhu is a Consultant gastroenterologist. She qualified in Dublin, Ireland with honours and did her postgraduate degree in Sheffield. She is one of the most published in small bowel endoscopy in the UK and was awarded the prestigious Hopkins Endoscopy Prize by the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) in 2012, the first female gastroenterologist  to have ever won this.

She runs a tertiary small bowel endoscopy service which has won several awards and runs national training courses in capsule endoscopy. She is the first author of BSG guidelines on small bowel endoscopy and European guidelines of the same. She is the co-author of the BSG anaemia guidelines, Gut 2021. She recently led the national BSG Guidelines for sedation for GI endoscopy in the UK (Gut 2024).She has clinical fellows (national and international) under her training banner and is actively involved in research. She has > 150 publications in peer reviewed journals and regularly gets invited as an expert  speaker at national and international meetings and masterclasses. She continues to be active in clinical research, teaching and education. She also runs an annual international course on capsule endoscopy. She also delivers training on capsule endoscopy in Europe at the United European Gastroenterology Summer School.

She undertakes private clinics at Claremont Hospital on Tuesday evenings and sees a variety of gastroenterology complaints including IBS, reflux, IBD, anaemia, coeliac disease, gluten intolerance, SIBO and many others.  She is often asked to provide second opinions. She performs gastroscopy, colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy at Claremont Hospital.