Professor Bu Hussain Hayee
Consultant
- Year Qualified
- 1999
- Qualifications
- BSc; MBBS; PhD; FRCP; AGAF; FASGE
- Specialty
- Gastroenterology
Special Interests
- Bowel cancer screening
- Endoscopic submucosal dissection
- Endoscopic treatments for type 2 diabetes and obesity
- GI complications of cystic fibrosis
- Inflammatory bowel disease (Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease)
- Intestinal graft versus host disease
- Magnification endoscopy
- Per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM)
- Therapeutic endoscopy
Biography
Professor Hayee is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at King’s College Hospital and has been Clinical Director since October 2022. He trained at Guy’s Hospital (GKT Medical School), graduating in 1999, and was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2015. His PhD, awarded in 2010, examined the role of innate immunity and neutrophil function in Crohn’s disease. In 2011, he was awarded a travelling fellowship to Yokohama, Japan, to study advanced endoscopic techniques with Professors Haruhiro Inoue and Shin-ei Kudo.
He is a Professor in Gastroenterology at King’s College London and maintains an active research interest, supervising several PhD fellows and basic scientists.
He is nationally-accredited for bowel cancer screening colonoscopy and has specialist interests in therapeutic endoscopy, robotics and artificial intelligence, supported by NIHR project grant funding.
Professor Hayee is a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology (for whom he serves as a member of the Endoscopy section committee), the American Gastroenterological Association, the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation, the American and European Societies for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the Association for Bariatric Endoscopy.
He is also Co-director of the King’s Institute of Therapeutic Endoscopy and Training Academy. In the past, he has held national positions of responsibility including Clinical Lead in Digital Innovations at NHSX, Director of the London Endoscopy Academy and one of three Clinical Leads for the Greener NHS Programme in London as well as initiating the Green Endoscopy initiative alongside the British Society of Gastroenterology.
Research
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