Dr Laurence Lovat

Dr Laurence Lovat
Consultant Gastroenterologist & Reader in Laser Medicine

Dr Lovat was educated at University College London School of Medicine. He won a prestigious MRC Research Training Award to take an intercalated degree in Nutrition for which he was awarded 1st Class Honours. He then won an MRC Research Training Fellowship to do his PhD at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at the Hammersmith Hospital (now part of Imperial College). He was appointed as a senior lecturer at University College London and a consultant at UCH in 1999.

Dr Lovat has won multiple large grants for his research. Click on the buttons for more information on Dr Lovat's research grants and research publications

He has been appointed to numerous national and international bodies:

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• 2000-2 Member, Committee, British Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Group (BASO)
  
  
• 2002-5 Member, Oesophageal Section Committee, British Society of Gastroenterology
  
  
• 2002-5 Member, Research Committee, British Society of Gastroenterology
  
  
• 2002-4 Member, Fundraising Committee, Barrett’s Oesophagus Foundation
  
  
• 2002 - Member, Scientific Advisory Group, UK Barrett’s Oesophagus Registry
  
  
• 2003 - Member, UK National PDT Advisory Board
  
  
• 2004 - Convenor and advisory board, PROBE (Patient Research Network for Oesophageal Cancer and Barrett’s Epithelium)
  
  
• 2005 - Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Barrett’s Oesophagus Foundation
  
  
• 2006 - Topic Lead, Barrett's Oesophagus, National Electronic Library for Health, Gastroenterology & Liver Diseases Specialist Library
  
  
• 2006-7 Member, Evaluation Board, Gastroenterology & Hepatology Faculty, Faculty of 1000 Medicine
  
  
• 2005-8 Member, Committee, Imaging and Advanced Technology Section, American Gastroenterology Association
  
  
• 2005-8 Specialist Advisor to NICE’s Interventional Procedures Programme.
  
  
• 2009-10 Member, NICE Guideline Development Group for Ablative Therapy in Barrett’s Oesophagus