Dr Joel Mawdsley
Consultant Gastroenterologist
- Available from
- London
About Joel Mawdsley
Dr Joel Mawdsley is a consultant gastroenterologist at Welbeck, specialising in luminal gastroenterology, endoscopy (having been an accredited Bowel Cancer Screening Colonoscopist) and inflammatory bowel disease.
His NHS practice is based in the internationally respected Inflammatory Bowel Disease Unit at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS trust, where he is joint clinical lead. This role focuses on delivering first class care to his patients with service innovation and research driven practice. Prior to this, he was an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College and a consultant at West Middlesex University Hospital, where he was training lead for endoscopy. Dr Mawdsley is active in medical education having been invited to take up roles in regional and national educational societies. He is currently president elect of the Gastroenterology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the organising committee of the London IBD forum.
In the development of Welbeck, Dr Mawdsley has advised on the implementation of the endoscopy reporting and IT systems to ensure our patients can enjoy seamless wrap-around care with quality assurance against key performance indicators.
“Being part of Welbeck will provide the unique opportunity to provide a truly specialist-led, first-class experience for our patients which is always the focus of my clinical care.”
Dr Mawdsley undertook his pre-clinical studies at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He graduated with a first class honours degree, becoming a foundation scholar and winning the prestigious Max Bull Prize for Medicine. For his clinical studies he moved to Bart’s and the Royal London medical school where he graduated with distinction in clinical pharmacology and merits in clinical medicine and pharmacology.
As a specialist registrar, he trained on the north west Thames gastroenterology rotation spending periods of training at St Mary’s Hospital, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospital, St Mark’s hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He returned to the Royal London Hospital between 2003-05 as a clinical research fellow. Here, he completed a Doctorate of Medicine on the role of stress and psychoneuroimmunology in inflammatory bowel disease, publishing several high impact papers on the subject.
In 2007, he took up a consultant’s position at the West Middlesex University Hospital where he was based for 10 years. During this time was clinical lead for Inflammatory Bowel Disease and training lead for endoscopy. In 2017, he moved to his current post as a gastroenterologist with a special interest in IBD and is joint clinical lead for the IBD unit.
Expertise
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Indigestion and Reflux
- Abdominal Pain
- Change in Bowel Habit
- Gastric and Oesophageal Cancer
- Colorectal cancer
Overview
- Age of patients seen
- 18+
- Languages spoken
- English
- Online profiles
- Research highlights
Dr Mawdsley has taken an active interest in research throughout his career. The IBD department at St Thomas’ places an emphasis on innovation and research and Dr Mawdsley is actively involved in clinical studies relating to understanding the cause and developing new treatments in inflammatory bowel disease. In his previous consultant post, he was the local principle investigator in several National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) registered studies.
Dr Mawdsley was a clinical research fellow in the department of Adult and Paediatric Gastroenterology at Queen Mary College, University of London from 2003 to 2005, under the supervision of Professor David Rampton. His MD project was titled “Psychological stress and hypnotherapy in ulcerative colitis”. It explored the psychoneuroimmunological mechanisms by which psychological stress might adversely affect, and hypnotherapy might beneficially affect GI inflammation in ulcerative colitis. It generated high impact first author publications and national and international presentations. Dr Mawdsley was awarded his doctoral Master’s degree in January 2008.
- Professional memberships
Royal College of Physicians
British Society of Gastroenterology
American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopists
Consultations and services
- Self-pay available from £275
- Health insurance
- Self-pay available from £175
- Health insurance
Insurers covered
- +5 more
- Allianz Partners
- Bupa International
- Cigna International
- Healix
- Henner
Tests & treatments
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