Nick is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and an Exeter BRC Senior Investigator Fellow.
He undertook his postgraduate training in Adelaide, South Australia and Edinburgh, UK, where he also obtained a PhD. His clinical and research interests are in inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis), particularly in understanding treatment response in IBD. He is a member of the UK and International IBD genetics consortia and current chair of the British Society of Gastroenterology IBD clinical research group.
Nick has a broader interest in health data research and is his hospital’s Chief Research Information Officer and the Exeter Health Tech Research Centre’s co-theme lead for data and artificial intelligence. Nick is working within the Exeter BRC to take forwards pharmacogenetic findings made by the Exeter IBD Research Group. He is also engaged with the BRC and the Great Western Secure Data Environment in making routinely collected clinical data within Devon better available for research.