Gastroenterology research

The four main areas of research for the Gastroenterology department are hepatology, endoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease and translational nutritional science.

Hepatology research spans the clinical management of viral hepatitis (particularly type C), epidemiology, hepatocellular cancer therapy, non-invasive staging and prognostic markers of liver disease, and management of portal hypertension.

Endoscopy focuses on improving the safety and quality of colonoscopic practice and of polypectomy, and colorectal neoplasia in cystic fibrosis.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) research includes studies on optimising thiopurine therapy (with a focus on the use of allopurinol to improve efficacy and counteract side effects), the clinical utility of measurement of anti-TNF drug levels, and intestinal ultrasound.

The Translational Nutritional Science Group studies diet as a therapy in chronic intestinal disorders, including implementation of new approaches in the community.

Postgraduate students

14 PhD students
1 MD student

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Publications

Stopping nucleot(s)ide analogues in non-cirrhotic HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B patients

Hall, Samuel AL; Burns, Gareth S; Anagnostou, Despina; Vogrin, Sara; Sundararajan, Vijaya; Ratnam, Dilip; Levy, Miriam T; Lubel, John S; Nicoll, Amanda J; Strasser, Simone I; Sievert, William; Desmond, Paul V; Ngu, Meng C; Angus, Peter; Sinclair,

(2022), ALIMENT PHARM THER, 56(2), 310-320

DOI: 10.1111/apt.16968

DEMoS: a deep learning-based ensemble approach for predicting the molecular subtypes of gastric adenocarcinomas from histopathological images

Wang, Yanan; Hu, Changyuan; Kwok, Terry; Bain, Christopher A; Xue, Xiangyang; Gasser, Robin B; Webb, Geoffrey I; Boussioutas, Alex; Xian, Shen; Daly, Roger J; Song, Jiangning

(2022), BIOINFORMATICS, 38(17), 4206-4213

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac456

Cold snare polypectomy of colorectal polyps =¿10¿mm on clopidogrel: Australian and New Zealand randomized controlled trial

Ket, Shara; Tjandra, Douglas; Hewett, David G; Kheir, Ammar O; Metz, Andrew J; Moss, Alan; Ogra, Ravinder; Tam, William; Raftopoulos, Spiro; Reynolds, John; Secomb, Robyn; Cavalieri, Lauren; Urquhart, Paul; Gibson, Peter R; Brown, Gregor

(2022), Endoscopy International Open, 10(6), E745-E752

DOI: 10.1055/a-1813-1019

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