Schedule
17.30 – Tea reception
17.50 – Seats
18.00 – Presenting of Awards
18.30 – Lecture
19.30 – Drinks reception
The Awards ceremony and lecture are free to attend and open to all, but registration is required in advance – please RSVP to Fran Bertolini (f.bertolini@imperial.ac.uk)
Lecture abstract
Inflammatory gut conditions such as inflammatory bowel diseases, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, whilst ultimately incurable, are treatable. However their treatment is not without challenges, primarily due to these diseases’ highly variable clinical manifestations.
In order to predict severity and tailor treatment, Tim Orchard, Professor of Gastroenterology at Imperial College London and his colleagues are part of an international effort to make better use of metabolic analysis and genetics. This work has so far demonstrated over 100 genes associated with IBD and includes Tim’s own work on ethnic variations within London. Taking a metabolomic approach, and given the need for uninvasive testing, their most recent work has focused on urinary metabolomics, and has shown promise in identifying the various inflammatory diseases, suggesting strongly that gut microbes are key to the development of IBD.
In his inaugural lecture, Professor Tim Orchard will discuss his career investigating the genetic and metabolic causes of inflammatory bowel disease. Drawing on his experience as both an educator and an academic he will also discuss the challenges of balancing teaching and research, and the importance of role models in medical education.
About the speaker
Tim Orchard is a Consultant Physician & Gastroenterologist, Professor of Gastroenterology at Imperial College London and Director of the Division of Medicine at say Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
He qualified from the University of Cambridge and London University before undertaking training in internal medicine and gastroenterology. He undertook research at the University of Oxford with Professor Derek Jewell, and has continued his research interests in inflammatory bowel disease and extraintestinal manifestations since coming to London. He and his colleagues have also been examining the role of metabonomics in relation to IBD and the microbes in the gut, and have developed an interest in IBD in the large South Asian population in West London. He has published papers on phenotype determining genes and EIMs in IBD, urinary metabonomics and other aspects of IBD and written a number of book chapters.
He has previously been the Emanoel Lee Junior Research Fellow at St Cross College, Oxford, and the Sidney Truelove Lecturer at the University of Oxford. He has been a member and Chair of the British Society of Gastroenterology IBD Section, and one of two national representatives to the European Colitis and Crohn’s disease Organisation (ECCO), as well as chairing the BSG IBD Clinical Studies Group. He also has a particular interest in education and training and was previously Director of Clinical Studies at St Mary’s Hospital, London.
Outside medicine he has a long term interest in choral music, both performing and conducting, and he is president of the Imperial College School of Medicine Music Society.