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Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
This podcast is focused on the paper "Pancreatitis in children: practical management from the BSPGHAN Pancreatitis Working Group”, published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in February 2025. Dr Oliver Tavabie, Deputy Editor at FG and Hepatology Consultant at the Leeds Liver Unit, interviews the authors Drs Vangelis Giamouris and Tassos Grammatikopoulos from King's College Hospital Read the paper on the Frontline Gastroenterology website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/16/2/155
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Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Increased international travel has brought infectious diseases, once rarely encountered, into a broader setting. One such disease is Amoebiasis, which can be dangerous due to its possible presentation as inflammatory bowel disease. Deputy editor Dr. Aditi Kumar speaks with the authors of a recent paper on this subject, Dr. Joseph Cooney¹, Prof. Peter Chiodini² and Prof. Richard Pollok¹, titled "Recent advances in the diagnosis and management of amoebiasis"
1. Department of Gastroenterology, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
2. Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, London, UK
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Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
This special podcast highlights the papers chosen to be part of the #FGCup, the annual Frontline Gastroenterology competition to choose the readers favourite review paper in 2024.
Dr Giovanna McGinty, a Trainee Associate Editor for FG and Gastroenterology Registrar at North Bristol Trust interviews (and contributes to the discussion) Dr Philip Smith, Editor in Chief of FG and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, Dr Aditi Kumar, Deputy Editor for FG and Consultant Gastroenterologist at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK and Dr Oliver Tavabie Deputy Editor for FG and Consultant Hepatologist at Leeds Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK.
They discuss the following papers:
Improving management of eosinophilic oesophagitis in adults in the UK: proposal for an integrated care pathway
British Society of Gastroenterology Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) Quality Improvement Programme: minimum service standards and good practice statements
From O’Shaughnessy to opportunity: innovating Hepatology Trials in the UK
Chronic abdominal pain in inflammatory bowel disease: a practical guide
Colonic stents: who, where, when
Investigation of abnormal liver blood tests in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Recent advances in the diagnosis and management of amoebiasis
Neuroendocrine tumours found at endoscopy: diagnosis and staging
We hope you enjoy the #FGPodcast and join the #FGCup on X starting 6th January 2025. Please follow @FrontGastro_BMJ
Tuesday Dec 17, 2024
Tuesday Dec 17, 2024
This podcast is focused on the paper "Investigation of abnormal liver blood tests in patients with inflammatory bowel disease”, published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in September 2024. Dr Oliver Tavabie, Deputy Editor at FG and Hepatology Consultant at the Leeds Liver Unit, and Dr Giovanna McGinty, Trainee Associate Editor at FG and Gastroenterology SpR at North Bristol Foundation Trust, interviews the authors Drs Jenny Scott, Consultant Gastroenterologist at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, and Varinder Athwal, Consultant Hepatologist at Manchester University Hospital Foundation Trust.
Read the paper on the Frontline Gastroenterology website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/15/6/516.info
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Friday Nov 22, 2024
Friday Nov 22, 2024
Dr Aditi Kumar, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Consultant Gastroenterologist in Wolverhampton, UK interviews Dr Benjamin Zare, Gastroenterology registrar and a clinical research fellow undertaking his PhD at St Marks Academic Institute, London UK and Dr Mark Samaan who is a Consultant Gastroenterologist with a sub-specialist interest in IBD working at Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust in London, UK, on the paper 'Effectiveness of risankizumab induction and maintenance therapy for refractory Crohn’s disease: a real-world experience from a preapproval access programme and early access to medicines scheme' published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in October 2024.
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Monday May 20, 2024
Monday May 20, 2024
Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor and Associate Editor of FG and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Sandeep Joshi, Specialist Registrar in Oral Medicine, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London and Dr Joel Mawdsley, Consultant Gastroenterologist and IBD specialist in the Department of Gastroenterology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London on the paper 'Oral manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease: a guide to examination’ published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in March 2024 - https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2024/04/25/flgastro-2023-102619 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Dr Vivek Goodoory, trainee associate editor at Frontline Gastroenterology and Gastroenterology registrar at Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, Leeds UK, Dr Philip Dunne, Trainee Associate Editor at Frontline Gastroenterology trainee editor and Gastroenterology registrar in the West of Scotland deanery, Glasgow UK and Dr Giovanna McGinty, Trainee Associate Editor at Frontline Gastroenterology and a gastroenterology registrar at North Bristol Trust, Bristol, UK interview Dr Elizabeth Ratcliffe, Gastroenterology registrar and ex-chair of the BSG trainees' section committee, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK and Dr Emma Saunsbury, Gastroenterology registrar and Severn and Peninsula BSG representation to the trainees' section, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, UK on the paper "UK-wide survey of gastroenterology and hepatology trainees in 2022: endoscopy, workforce planning and the Shape of things to come published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in October 2023 - https://fg.bmj.com/content/15/1/35 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Dr Philip Smith, Associate and Education Editor of BMJ Open Gastroenterology and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Yago González Lama from the IBD Unit, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain, on the paper "Controversies in the management of anti-TNF therapy in patients with Crohn’s disease: A Delphi consensus" published in BMJ Open Gastroenterology - https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/content/11/1/e001246
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Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Sailish Honap, post CCT Clinical Research fellow in IBD based at King’s College London and Dr Kamal Patel, Consultant Gastroenterologist and IBD specialist in the Department of Gastroenterology, St. George’s Hospital, London, UK, on the paper 'JAK Inhibitors for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Recent Advances’ published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in September 2023: https://fg.bmj.com/content/15/1/59Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK and Dr James Kennedy, Trainee Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology, and Academic Research Fellow and Registrar in Gastroenterology in the Thames Valley Deanery, UK interviews Dr Glenys Jones, Deputy Chief Executive of the Association for Nutrition, London, UK, on the paper 'Teaching medical students about nutrition: from basic principles to practical strategies’ published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in June 2023 - https://fg.bmj.com/content/14/5/422Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229