Dr Neil Ikin

Dr Neil Ikin is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Trust. He cares for patients with gastroenterological conditions, with a special focus on stomach and bowel problems, in particular those with functional and inflammatory bowel disease.

Having graduated from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School he undertook junior doctor training in both East and West London, working and studying at many world-renowned centres such as St Mark’s Hospital in Harrow and Imperial College. This experience has shaped his medical practice to this day. During this period, he became proficient in upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, oesophageal manometry and lower GI tract physiology.

Having been Clinical Lead for Gastroenterology in recent years, he now leads the upper GI Physiology and Functional Gut Services at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital, key aspects of his work in Neurogastroenterology.

In addition, he is a core member of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease and a member of the Upper GI Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Teams.

He has supported junior colleagues throughout his career, becoming a specialist registrar training programme director and a JAG certified endoscopy trainer, a role he still enjoys currently.

More latterly he has taken on responsibility for training and supervising colleagues in Upper Gastrointestinal Physiology and is also a supervisor for groups of Imperial College and St Georges Medical School students as they rotate through the hospital.

Gastroenterology:

• Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), gastro-oesophageal reflux, heartburn, dyspepsia, bloating, bowel issues such as constipation, diarrhoea or both, Coeliac disease and inflammatory bowel diseases such as Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s disease.

Liver:

• Abnormal liver function tests, liver cirrhosis and liver diseases such as alcoholic liver disease (ALD), non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), primary biliary cholangiopathy (PBC), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and autoimmune hepatitis

Procedures:

• Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
• Upper Gastrointestinal Physiology

• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London)
• British Society of Gastroenterology
• British Medical Association