We are delighted to extend our congratulations to our new Deputy Guidelines Lead Prof Anjan Dhar!

Anjan Dhar is Professor of Medicine at Teesside University and Consultant Luminal Gastroenterologist at Darlington Memorial and Bishop Auckland Hospitals in County Durham. He graduated from the University of Delhi MBBS, with a Presidential Gold Medal and completed his Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology fellowships at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi with a doctoral DM degree, and a MD thesis in Radiation Induced proctopathy. He came to the UK as a Commonwealth Fellow for IBD research at Oxford University with Professor Derek Jewell. This was followed by advanced Gastroenterology and Endoscopy training in the UK at the University of Oxford and the University College London Hospitals working with Professors Stuart Bloom and Laurence Lovat. He was appointed as a Consultant in Co. Durham in 2003, member of the academic faculty at Durham University (2010-18) and Professor of Medicine at Teesside University in 2019.

His research interests in Luminal Gastroenterology include - Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Oesophageal diseases (Eosinophilic oesophagitis, reflux disease and Barrett’s oesophagus) and advanced therapeutic endoscopy (EMR, RFA, POEM and ESG). He has been a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Clinician Investigator and has been involved in several national and international clinical trials at County Durham (over 20 clinical trials completed in the last 20 years). 

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, American Gastroenterology Association Fellow and a life member of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology. He is a recipient of the British Society of Gastroenterology Endoscopy Advanced Endoscopy travelling fellowship to Charleston (2008) and Tokyo (2010) and the BSG Service Success commendations (2021, 2022, 2024). He has been an elected member of the Oesophageal Section, the IBD Section and the Clinical Research Group for IBD at the British Society of Gastroenterology and currently is a member of both the Oesophageal and Endoscopy Sections. He was the Chair of the Eosinophilic Oesophagitis Guideline Group of the BSG and a member of the IBD guidelines Group and the IBD CRC Surveillance Group. He is the immediate past Chair of the Education Committee of the BSG, previous Deputy Chair of Education (2021-23), and Executive Council member between 2022-25. He has been the Co-Chair of Specialist Certificate Examination Question Writing Group since 2020.

He has over 130 publications in peer reviewed international GI journals and is a reviewer to many GI Journals. His h-index is 33(2025), i10-index 52 with over 5000 citations.