Professor Matt Rutter

Matt Rutter is Professor of Gastroenterology at Newcastle University and the University Hospital of North Tees. He specialises in advanced diagnostic colonoscopy, polypectomy and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. He sits on the BSG Endoscopy Research committee and the national Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Advisory committee. He is founder and ex-chair the ESGE Quality Improvement in Endoscopy committee and chairs the BCSP Research committee, JAG National Endoscopy Database committee and World endoscopy Organisation interval cancer subcommittee.

He has published and lectured worldwide on quality in endoscopy, screening and colonoscopic surveillance, receiving the BSG Hopkins Endoscopy Prize in 2006 and 2020 and the RCP Goulstonian Lectureship in 2008. He co-authored BSG (2010), NICE (2011), European (ECCO, 2012) and SCENIC (USA, 2015) colitis surveillance guidelines, was the lead author for the BSG/ACPGBI management of large non-pedunculated colorectal polyps guidelines (2015), and lead author for the BSG/ACPGBI/PHE post-polypectomy surveillance guidelines (2020).

He is regional screening lead for QA in colonoscopy, GI research lead for North East & North Cumbria LCRN and is one of the core faculty for the Northern Region Endoscopy Training Centre.

Chair, Northern Cancer Alliance Endoscopy Group

Founding Chair, European (ESGE) Endoscopy Quality Improvement committee;
Chair, National Bowel Cancer Screening Research committee;
Director, Tees Bowel Cancer Screening Centre;
Publications Board, Crohn's and Colitis UK;
Chair, Regional gastroenterology research network (LCRN)
Chair, National Endoscopy Database committee

Chair, World Endoscopy Organisation PCCRC subgroup