Prof Bu Hussain Hayee
Elected Councillor, June 2025 - 2028
Professor Hayee is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at King’s College Hospital and has been Clinical Director since October 2022.
He is a Professor in Gastroenterology at King’s College London and maintains an active research interest, supervising several PhD fellows and basic scientists.
He is nationally-accredited for bowel cancer screening colonoscopy and has specialist interests in therapeutic endoscopy, robotics and artificial intelligence, supported by NIHR project grant funding.
Professor Hayee is a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology (for whom he serves as a member of the Endoscopy section committee), the American Gastroenterological Association, the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation, the American and European Societies for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the Association for Bariatric Endoscopy.
He is also Co-director of the King’s Institute of Therapeutic Endoscopy and Training Academy. In the past, he has held national positions of responsibility including Clinical Lead in Digital Innovations at NHSX, Director of the London Endoscopy Academy and one of three Clinical Leads for the Greener NHS Programme in London as well as initiating the Green Endoscopy initiative alongside the British Society of Gastroenterology.
