2021 Award Winners
Dietitian Recognition Award
Lindsay Carnie
Christie NHS Foundation Trust
PROJECT TITLE: Establishing an Algorithm for Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy (PERT)
SUPERVISOR: Angela Lamarca
Helen Dumpleton
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust
PROJECT TITLE: An Audit of the Effectiveness of IBS Dietary Advice in a Cambridgeshire
Community Setting
SUPERVISOR: Mrs Kim Jones
Essay Prize Winner
Niraj Doshi
University College London Medical School
PROJECT TITLE: A Genome-Wide Association Study of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in
Trivandrum, India
SUPERVISOR: Professor Andrew McQuillin
F1/F2 Research Award
Dr Rebecca Jeyaraj
Institute of Liver Studies, King’s College Hospital, London
PROJECT TITLE: Variation in genes involved in bile acid homeostasis and their contribution to
paediatric non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
SUPERVISOR: Professor Richard Thompson
Dr Umair Akbani
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
PROJECT TITLE: Evaluating the performance of a novel classification system for irritable bowel
syndrome in predicting outcomes to gut-focused hypnotherapy
SUPERVISOR: Dr Dipesh Vasant
Nurse Prize
Sister Kim Shaw
East and North Herts NHS Trust
PROJECT TITLE: Establishing a New Nurse–run Early Diagnostic Upper GI service
Incorporating Cytosponge as Part of COVID Recovery and Service
Improvement
SUPERVISOR: Dr Danielle Morris
Laura Kent
Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
PROJECT TITLE: Implementing a Long Term Indwelling Abdominal Drain service to support
patients with advanced liver disease to have an improved quality of life
SUPERVISOR: Matron Kevin Jenner
SPR trainee Audit / Quality Improvement Award
Dr Flora Kokwaro
Intestinal failure and Transplant at St. Marks Intestinal rehabilitation and nutrition unit, London
PROJECT TITLE: My Tube Passport – ” Mind My Tube “. A hospital e-passport for the patient
with an enterostomy device
SUPERVISOR: Dr Mani Naghibi
Dr Tessa Cacciottolo
University of Cambridge & Department of Hepatology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
PROJECT TITLE: Using age-appropriate information to support adolescents and young adults
with liver disease as they transition from paediatric to adult services
SUPERVISOR: Dr Victoria Snowdon
Student Prizes
Wing Kiu Chou
University of East Anglia
PROJECT TITLE: Clinical and Genetic Determinates of Severe Acute Pancreatitis: A systematic
review and population based genetic association study in the UK Biobank
SUPERVISOR: Mr Bhaskar Kumar
Oluwatobi Adegboye
University of Manchester School of Medicine
PROJECT TITLE: Does Disruption of the Circadian Clock System Advance Liver Fibrosis?
SUPERVISOR: Professor Karen Piper Hanley
Monira Khatun
Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction at Imperial College London
PROJECT TITLE: Defining the Role of invariant Natural Kill T-cells (iNKT) and Interleaukin – 22 (IL-22) in the
Pathogenesis of Perianal Fistulising Crohn’s Disease
SUPERVISOR: Mr Sulak Anandabaskaran
Aala Mohammed Ali
University of Leeds Medical School
PROJECT TITLE: Characterising chronotype, sleep, and circadian disruption in inflammatory
bowel disease (IBD)
SUPERVISOR: Professor John McLaughlin
Kader Torbator
Imperial Collage London Medial School
PROJECT TITLE: The Association between Psoriasis and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease using
Transient Elastography to Assess Fibrosis and Steatosis: A Retrospective Study
SUPERVISOR: Dr Laith Al Rubaiy
Petra Paiz
Imperial College London Medical School
PROJECT TITLE: Developing a direct mass spectrometric assay for the identification of early
disease biomarkers for colorectal cancer
SUPERVISOR: Mr. James Kinross
Reuben Veysey-Smith
University of Liverpool Medical School
PROJECT TITLE: Investigating the Relative Impacts of Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) Therapy,
H. pylori-induced Gastritis and Gastric Mucosal Atrophy on Fasting Serum
Gastrin Concentrations
SUPERVISOR: Professor Mark Pritchard