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Accredited endoscopist
Specialises in
- Endoscopy
- Hepatobiliary
Bupa specialist
- Accredited endoscopist
About me
Dr Huggett is a Consultant with specialist registration in Gastroenterology and Hepatology and practices within all areas of bowel and liver disease. He is 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 Honorary Secretary of the Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and is involved in training doctors in advanced endoscopy. He was appointed as a Consultant Gastroenterologist in Leeds in 2014.
Areas of interest
General Gastroenterology and Endoscopy; liver, biliary and gallbladder disease; hepatitis; gallstones; pancreatitis; pancreatic cancer; investigation of abdominal pain including Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction; reflux; heartburn; indigestion; hiatus hernia; peptic ulcer disease; coeliac disease; bloating; investigation of change in bowel habit; irritable bowel syndrome; diarrhoea; constipation; polyps; anaemia; gastroscopy; colonoscopy; flexible sigmoidoscopy; advanced therapeutic endoscopy; ERCP; endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)
Medical secretaries
- Mita Patel
- Department of Gastroenterology Level 4 Bexley Wing St James's University Hospital Beckett Street LEEDS LS9 7TF
- 0113 206 8749
- 07538 334850
- mita.patel2@nhs.net