Consultant Profile
Dr Richard Pollok
Speciality
Gastroenterology
Qualifications
MBBS BSc PhD DTM&H FRCP
Year Qualified
1990
Languages
English
Consulting Address
New Malden Diagnostic Centre
171 Clarence Avenue
New Malden
Surrey KT3 3TX
Sub Speciality
gastroenterology, Luminal gastroenterology, Endoscopy, Hepatology
NHS Base
St. George’s Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Roehampton
Telephone
0870 626 0124
Fax
Website
Biography
He is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at St George's Hospital and Medical School. He is fully registered with the GMC and has specialist certification in Gastroenterology and General internal Medicine.
He trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital and was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship gaining my PhD on the topic of the gut immunity. His current research programme focuses on the causes of inflammatory bowel disease and improving diagnosis.
His clinical interests include inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) including Crohn's disease and Colitis, indigestion/ heartburn, chronic diarrhoea, gut infections, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and family screening for bowel cancer. He is an experienced therapeutic endoscopist and has performed several thousand gastroscopies and colonoscopies.