Dr Mark Scott PhD is our Director of Lower GI Physiology. He has over 25 years’ clinical and academic experience relating to the physiological assessment of functional colorectal disorders, primarily constipation and faecal incontinence.
Mark is also a principal investigator at the Blizard Institute at Queen Mary University of London, the largest institute of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
He is a founding director of the internationally renowned GI (Colorectal) Physiology Unit at Barts. Every year, around 1,000 patients undergo diagnostic investigations there, providing the resources for allied research.
Mark is currently a member of the European Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility Working Team, which sets guidelines for the management of constipation. He is also one of the leads on an international anorectal physiology working group into the standardisation of diagnostic testing.
He has supervised numerous postgraduate students (both clinical and scientific) to the successful completion of their higher degrees.
Publications
Mark is the UK’s most widely published colorectal gastrointestinal physiologist, having written 160 original articles and 11 book chapters. He has been guest editor of 3 journal supplements on the subject of chronic constipation.
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