Dr. Sarmed Sami

Consultant Gastroenterologist and Honorary Associate Professor

Sarmed Sami has practiced and trained at centres of excellence including The Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA and University College Hospital, London, UK. He currently holds honorary positions at UCLH and UCL as well as substantive positions at the Princess Grace Hospital and the London Clinic.

Sarmed completed a 3-year Core-Olympus National Endoscopy Research Fellowship at the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre. Following which, he undertook an advanced oesophageal fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA. His research focus is around screening for Barrett’s oesophagus and early cancer. He has over 50 peer reviewed publications in this field and has been a faculty member and speaker on several endoscopy courses and workshops. He is the lead author of the UK oesophageal dilatation guidelines.

Sarmed was the recipient of the Cook Medical Marsha Dreyer award from the American Society for GI Endoscopy (ASGE) in 2014; the BSG trainees section out of programme award; and more recently the Fellows-in-training award from the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG).