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Dr Matthew Huggett was appointed as a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Leeds Teaching Hosptials NHS Trust in 2014. He has specialist registration in both Gastroenterology and Hepatology and practises within all areas of bowel and liver disease. He is also one of the few physicians in the UK with a major interest in pancreaticobiliary disease and performs advanced level endoscopy including EUS and ERCP, as well as general endoscopy and colonoscopy.

His training involved experience at major centres in London including the Royal Free Hospital, King's Liver Unit and St Mary's Hospital; followed by a fellowship in advanced endoscopy at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. His ongoing research interests include gastrointestinal cancer, chronic pancreatitis, autoimmune pancreatitis and sphincter of oddi dysfunction, and he was awarded a PhD from University College London in 2014 following his work into DNA replication in pancreatic cancer.

He is involved in training UK and overseas doctors in advanced endoscopy. He is Chair of the British Society of Gastroenterology Pancreatic Section committee and is Honorary Secretary of the Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Endoscopy

Gastroscopy

Colonoscopy

ERCP

Endoscopic ultrasound

General Gastroenterology

Hepatology

Pancreatic diseases

Sphincter of oddi dysfunction