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Staff Profile

Professor Matt Rutter

Professor of Gastroenterology

  • Telephone: 01642 624557
  • Address: University Hospital of North Tees
    Hardwick Rd
    Hardwick
    Stockton-on-Tees
    TS19 8PE
Background

Matt Rutter is Professor of Gastroenterology at the University Hospital of North Tees. He specialises in advanced diagnostic colonoscopy, polypectomy and bowel cancer screening/surveillance. He sits on the BSG Endoscopy Research committee. He founded and chairs the JAG National  Endoscopy Database committee and chairs the BCSP Research Committee.

 

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, and was the lead author for the BSG/ACPGBI management of large non-pedunculated colorectal polyps guidelines (2015) and the BSG/PHE/ACPGBI post-cancer and post-polypectomy surveillance guidelines (2019)

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.


Areas of expertise: gastroenterology, endoscopy, colorectal cancer, screening, inflammatory bowel disease, quality

 

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