Dr Priyajit Bobby Prasad MBBS FACP
Dr Bobby Prasad is a Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London where he has been Clinical Lead Physician for Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He also consults at the Royal Marsden and Royal Brompton Hospitals in London. Bobby is a Founding Member of London Gastrointestinal Associates.

He trained at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London and Boston, USA completing prestigious Advanced Endoscopy Fellowships in Endoscopic Ultrasound at Yale University, USA and in Therapeutic Endoscopy and ERCP in Charleston, USA under Professors Peter Cotton and Robert Hawes. At Yale, he was on Faculty as an Attending (Consultant) Physician and was the recipient of a Yale New Haven Hospital All Star Award. He has also been awarded the American College of Gastroenterology National Fellows’ Prize and an Astra-Zeneca Gastroenterology Travelling Scholarship. He is also a recipient of the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine Teaching Excellence Award for 2009.

Bobby has particular expertise in all aspects of endoscopy, gastroenterology and hepatology. These include: gastrointestinal bleeding, jaundice, abdominal pain/dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome, gastrointestinal cancer screening, pancreaticobiliary disease, obesity, inflammatory bowel disease, gastro-oesophageal reflux, and general hepatology/liver disease. Bobby is a Faculty Member on the National Endoscopy Training Program at St Georges Hospital, London and regularly teaches advanced endoscopic techniques and colonoscopy to Consultants and trainees in the UK and internationally. He has recently co-chaired major international conferences on Cystic Neoplasms of the Pancreas held at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London and on Cholangiocarcinoma at the Royal Society of Medicine.  He was also recently invited to give a lecture on ‘Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding’ to over a hundred Consultants at the prestigious Royal College of Physicians Acute Medicine Update.  

Bobby is fully accredited on the UK General Medical Council’s Specialist Register for Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine (USA) and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.  He is a Representative on the International Committee of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and a regular reviewer for the journals GI Endoscopy and AP&T. Bobby has published in a number of gastrointestinal journals including Gastroenterology, Gut, PNAS, GI Endoscopy, AP&T, Oncology, Thorax and Endoscopy. He has achieved fluency in English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, French and German

2009 - IBS: Am I irritable or is it just my bowels?

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a chronic condition of the digestive system and the most commonly diagnosed gastrointestinal complaint, largely presenting with abdominal pain or changes in bowel habit. A substantial proportion of the population are estimated to suffer from IBS and seek medical care. The focus of this talk will be to identify potential causes and aetiologies of IBS, recognize common IBS symptoms, raise awareness of the association between ageing and IBS,  determine a diagnostic approach and broadly review the therapeutic options currently available and possibly in the future.