Adrian is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner and Senior Lecturer in Nursing at Brunel University London, dual registered in adult and mental health nursing. His clinical and academic work bridges pharmacology, addiction, and long-term condition management, with a particular focus on patient concordance and structural stigma in healthcare. Adrian leads educational programmes that connect evidence, compassion, and practice innovation. He is also active in international nursing networks, promoting equitable care and professional development across disciplines. He is also a peer reviewer for GIN

Amanda is a Senior Research Nurse in Gastroenterology based at the NIHR Nottingham Clinical Research Facility at the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospital. She has a background of Adult General Surgery and Endoscopy. She achieved her BSc in Nursing in Rome, Italy, in 2014. Her career in Gastroenterology Research started in September 2021 and she is very passionate about career progression and nursing education.

Angie Perrin is currently Clinical Education Lead for Salts Healthcare within this role she is responsible for developing a varied, information and educational programme for any health care professional keen to advance their knowledge within the specialist sphere of Stoma Care. Angie has over 30 years of experience working in Stoma Care speciality. She was the lead Nurse in Stoma/Colorectal Nursing in Oxford for almost 20 years before moving to Salts Healthcare. Angie has recently stepped down as ASCN UK Chairperson/Vice chairperson, a role she held since 2017. She is a true advocate for nurse education and empowers nurses to develop advanced skills and expertise needed to deliver quality care to patients.

Annelie Shaw is a registered dietitian with extensive experience in gastrointestinal disease, surgery, and transplant care. She has worked across acute and specialist services, managing complex enteral and parenteral nutrition and supporting multidisciplinary decision-making in challenging nutrition support cases. Annelie is now a Specialist Dietetics Lecturer and Clinical Tutor, combining clinical practice with postgraduate education and student supervision. Her professional interests include safe initiation of enteral feeding, complex nutrition support, and nutrition care across the pre and postoperative pathway. She is also actively involved in simulation-based education, using realistic clinical scenarios to enhance confidence and patient safety in nutrition support practice.

Dr. Laurenda Obeng is a Gastroenterology Specialty Registrar at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London. She has a special interest in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and leadership development within healthcare. Alongside her clinical training, Laurenda is the CEO and founder of LW Training, an organization dedicated to empowering healthcare professionals through leadership and personal development programmes. Passionate about advancing gastroenterology and nurturing future leaders in medicine, she combines her clinical expertise with a commitment to education, mentorship, and improving patient care through innovative leadership approaches.

Dr. Leigh Donnelly is the Endoscopy Education and Development Lead at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, with over 30 years in endoscopy as a nurse and clinical endoscopist. She completed her PhD in 2023 examiniting the lived expereince of trainee endoscopists. Leigh currently chairs the BSG Nurses Section and serves as an ESGENA elected board member, and is Consultant Editor for Gastrointestinal Nursing Journal. In 2024, she became the first nurse awarded the BSG Presiden's Medal for championing sustainability in endoscopy. Her main interests include nursing advancement, education, and sustainable practice.

Ellie is a registered mental health nurse with nearly 30 years of clinical, managerial, and national policy experience. She has served as both policy advisor and clinical lead in learning disability and mental health, contributing to national policy development and implementation. Ellie led the Baroness Mary Watkins Review of Mental Health Nursing in England, integrating data, stakeholder input, and clinical insight into a coherent national vision. As Chair of the RCN Mental Health Forum, she has championed the voice of mental health nursing in shaping policy, including Mental Health Act revisions. Ellie also maintains clinical practice as a non-medical prescriber in specialist addiction services.

Emma is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner with an extended scope of surgical practice currently working in General and Breast Surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead. Emma previously worked in various Nurse Practitioner/Specialist Nurse roles in hepatobiliary and gastroenterology services. Her earlier experience includes research and critical care nursing positions at the regional liver unit at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. In addition to her clinical practice, Emma is an experienced Expert Witness providing impartial expert opinion in clinical negligence cases with extensive knowledge of the medical-legal system.

Hazel is originally from the Philippines. She works at Northumbria NHS Trust for over 21 years. Hazel has started her career in specialist nursing as a Stoma Care Nurse Specialist, Colorectal Cancer Nurse Specialist and currently a Clinical Endoscopist trained to perform Upper GI and Lower GI endoscopy. Hazel is a Non - Medical Prescriber. She has led a Service Improvement Project on Patient Information. She has co-published articles on Review of Patient Information on Colorectal Cancer Patients, The Deborah James Effect on cancer referral and Barriers to Non- Medical Prescribing. She has recently been awarded Best Free Paper Prize in UEG 2025, Berlin. Currently facilitate 2ww cancer referrals via triage and nurse -led telephone clinic.

Julian has been a qualified nurse for fourteen years with over ten years’ experience within the endoscopy specialty, seven of those as a clinical endoscopist. He is an elected member of the British Society of Gastroenterology Nursing Committee member and Supporting Women in Gastroenterology Committee member (SWiG), and has a specialist interest in LGBTQIA+ patient care.

Lisa is the lead IBD Clinical Nurse Specialist at University College London Hospital and has been in the current post since 2011. She has worked predominantly in gastroenterology since qualification in 2000 which ranges from upper GI medicine, colorectal surgery, HPB and bowel cancer screening and has worked in different parts of the UK and Australia.

Lisa has an interest in adolescent care for patients with IBD and service development for which she won the British Society of Gastroenterology National Award in service development, she has also published in Gastrointestinal Nursing and is an active member of the IBD RCN network.

Natasha has been nursing since 1991 when she worked at St Thomas Hospital, having completed her training there and in a variety of post-registrtion roles, including stoma care nurse specialist.

After a career break and completing her 'back to practice' qualification in 2012, she took the Lead Stoma Care Nurse Specialist role at UHBW in 2017, and continues in her determination to bring service improvement and positive recognition to the team. She has co-led a national task-force committed to raising the profile of the stoma care nursing profession and protecting the role, co-authoring a paper and presenting regularly on the work. The project has been adopted as an ASCNUK project and as Honorary Chair of ASCNUK (elected 2025), this gives Natasha further opportunity to advocate for, and demonstrate the worth of, the specialist nursing profession.

Rebekah is the Chair of the RCN Gastrointestinal Forum and presents, with the Committee members, the work the group are undertaking to promote Gastrointestinal nursing in the UK.

Sarah has been a qualified nurse for 25 years, her career started in surgery at the Freeman Hospital, she then moved into the endoscopy department 20 years ago as a band 5 staff nurse, and is now the band 7 unit manager. Her passion for endoscopy lies within the PB endoscopy service that is delivered in the department. Over the last 15 years she has developed a national nurses course for endoscopy nurses, which covers EUS/ERCP. She is currently a co-opt member of the BSG nursing section, and is the Deputy training lead for NYETA.

Wendi is an experienced IBD Clinical Nurse Specialist with a background in Endoscopy nursing . She is an active member within the British Society Gastroenterology (BSG) IBD Section commitee and the BSG Nurse's commitee. She has contributed to NHS England IBD Rightcare Scenario publication . She is an advocate for improving IBD care and equalising IBD services. Locally, she provides training clinics for consultation skills and IBD management . Wendi has previously contributed to Gastrointestinal Nursing with her editorial.