Meet our team:
Consultant Gastroenterologists
Dr Sunil Samuel
Dr Samuel graduated from Stanley Medical College in Chennai, India and trained in gastroenterology in the South West and East Midlands Deanery. He completed a PhD at the University of Nottingham studying intestinal stem cells in normal and diseased bowel. He also completed a 12 months advanced training IBD fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA. Dr Samuel has particular interests and expertise in clinical management of IBD and all aspects of IBD related research including commercial trials of novel agents. He currently is the lead clinician for IBD services in NUH and has clinics in both QMC and NCH campuses
Dr Tim Card
Dr Card graduated from the University of Bristol in 1992. He received his clinical training in gastroenterology in the Oxford region and undertook an MSc at the London School of Hygiene and a PhD in Nottingham between 2000 and 2003. He is currently a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of Nottingham and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist in NUH. He has research interests in the epidemiology of gastrointestinal diseases and in particular IBD. His major clinical interest is IBD, though he cares for patients with a wide range of luminal GI diseases.
Dr Nina Lewis
Dr Lewis trained in epidemiology at the London School before undertaking her PhD in coeliac disease at Nottingham. Dr Lewis is the City Hospital gastroenterologist for C. difficile and helped bring faecal transplantation to Nottingham to treat recurrent infections. Her routine clinical practice is assessing and diagnosing patients referred with suspected cancer in her role as NUH clinical lead for the ‘suspected cancer but of unknown primary site (two week wait) pathway’. She is the clinical diagnostic lead to the NUH geriatric-oncology service, assessing and managing geriatric patients referred with suspected cancer in a dedicated geriatric cancer diagnostic clinic. She is also the linked cancer physician to the NUH Acute Oncology Service contributing to in-reach assessments of NUH patients presenting as an emergency with new diagnosis of cancer. Additionally she is the lead gastroenterologist responsible for providing expert opinion on the assessment and management of cancer treatment complications affecting the gut. As Nottingham City Hospital’s Clinical Nutrition lead, Dr Lewis is responsible for providing expert assessment and management of patients with complex nutrition needs and or intestinal failure. She also delivers care in the Intestinal Failure Unit at Queen’s Medical Centre. Following dedicated training in her lectureship in inflammatory bowel disease, Dr Lewis has a busy inflammatory bowel disease clinical practice. Her practice supports national research studies and was co-author on the recently published PROFILE molecular biomarker study in Crohn’s disease.
Professor Y Mahida
Professor Yashwant Mahida is Professor of Medicine and Hon. Consultant Physician & Gastroenterologist at the University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. He obtained his medical qualification from Liverpool University and undertook higher medical training in London, Oxford and Nottingham. Following Medical Research Council (MRC)-funded research training in the field of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Oxford, he has held a number of clinical academic posts in Nottingham. He was also a visiting Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA) to carry out laboratory research relevant to IBD.
Professor Mahida’s current clinical and research interests are in IBD and C. difficile infection. His research has been funded by the MRC, charities (including Crohn’s & Colitis UK, Guts UK and the Wellcome Trust) and he has supervised 25 higher degrees (PhD and MD). He has previously served on the editorial board of the journals Clinical Science and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Currently he is a member of the Advisory Board of Clinical Medicine journal of the Royal College of Physicians. He was previously an elected member of Council of the British Society of Gastroenterology, Medical Adviser to the Nottinghamshire Group of Crohn’s & Colitis UK and a member of this charity’s Medical Research Awards Committee.
Dr Gordon Moran
Dr Moran is an academic gastroenterologist with a special interest in the clinical management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. He has completed his gastroenterology training in Birmingham, UK and his PhD studies at the University of Manchester in 2011. He advanced his clinical training in Inflammatory Bowel disease by undertaking a one year advanced clinical fellowship in Inflammatory Bowel disease at the University of Calgary, Canada.
He has been appointed as Clinical Associate Professor in Gastroenterology at the University of Nottingham in 2013 and has been Head of Service for IBD at NUH till 2022. He is a member of the IBD section for the British Society of Gastroenterology, leads IBD research at the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre and is an IBD expert member for the National Institute of Health Research Trent Clinical Research Network. He leads the 2024 IBD guideline development group of the British Society of Gastroenterology. To date he has received over £11 million pounds in grant research income, authored nearly 80 peer-reviewed academic chapters, gave a number of national and international lectures and supervised 10 PhD students and 3 IBD fellows. His research interest is mainly advanced imaging in IBD, early phase mechanistic studies and phase II-IV IBD trials. Dr Moran has a very large IBD practice, performs GI endoscopic procedures and treats complex paediatric and adult IBD across the Midlands.
Dr Victoria Jennings
Dr Victoria Jennings graduated from medical school in 2009 with a degree from the University of Wales Cardiff. Prior to attending medical school she attained a BA Economics Degree from the University of Nottingham, graduating in 2002. During her medical training she undertook a fellowship in Clinical Leadership and achieved a Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Leadership. She undertook an additional fellowship in IBD and Clinical Nutrition at the University Hospital Wales in Cardiff. Dr Jennings is a luminal gastroenterologist who looks after a varied range of gastrointestinal complaints. She has a particular interest in managing Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Dr Tanya Monaghan
Dr Monaghan graduated from the University of Southampton Medical School in 2002. Whilst an Academic Clinical Fellow in Gastroenterology, she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellowship to study for a PhD in the molecular immunology of C. difficile infection. Following completion of an NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship in 2017, she continued to pursue her research interests in enteric infection and Global Health as an Anne McLaren Fellow and now as a Clinical Associate Professor in Gastroenterology at the University of Nottingham. Dr Monaghan has a particular interest in infectious and inflammatory bowel diseases, drug development and microbiome studies. She also has a keen interest in medical education and has co-authored four Oxford University Press Handbook titles
Other consultants include Dr Matthew Shale, Dr Aida Jawhari and Dr Frank Phillips
Clinical Nurse Specialists
Wendy Roome
Wendy qualified at Nottingham school of nursing in 1994. She started out as a staff nurse in dermatology before moving to the gastroenterology team in 1996. She worked as deputy sister on the gastroenterology medical ward before moving to endoscopy. She then took up her current role as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) nurse specialist in 2002. She is responsible for nurse led clinics, patient advice line and management of the nursing team. Wendy has completed a specialist degree module in IBD and is a non- medical prescriber.
Stephanie Melia
Steph qualified in 1997 from the University of Nottingham with a Diploma in Adult Nursing followed by a BSc in Nursing 2000 and an MSc in Advanced Nursing Practice 2005. Steph also qualified as a non-medical prescriber in 2018. Steph’s nursing background is acute medicine & gastroenterology working in the City ward areas, with short secondments to Alcohol Liaison & Haemochromatosis before a permanent position as IBD Nurse Specialist in 2008
Shellie Radford
Shellie is a Clinical Academic IBD Nurse specialist. She qualified with her Degree in Nursing in 2013, and has worked in Gastroenterology since 2016. Shellie gained her Masters degree in 2020 by undertaking research into the lived experiences of patients living with IBD, also achieving her Postgraduate Certificate in Gastrointestinal disorders in 2021. Shellie's role incorporates delivery of clinical care to patients with IBD and conducting and facilitating clinical research into IBD, possible treatments and the impact of IBD on patients' lives. Shellie works part time in the IBD nursing team, as she is also undertaking her PhD at the University of Nottingham. Shellie is a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology Nurses association, and is the Nurses representative for the 'IBD' and 'Research' sub-committees.
Sarah O’Rouke
Sarah is an IBD Nurse Specialist graduated from the University of Derby in 2012, and started my role as a registered nurse in Endoscopy. She worked in Endoscopy as a senior nurse until 2016, she subsequently took on a new role as a biosimilar medication switch coordinator within the IBD service, which lasted for 12 months. The role increased her knowledge and interest around IBD, this lead to her taking on the role of IBD Nurse Specialist in 2017.
Deborah Trout
Deb qualified in 2013 from the University of Nottingham with a Diploma in Adult Nursing. Working in Endoscopy before taking a temporary role within the IBD service in 2015, becoming a permeant IBD Nurse Specialist in Feb 2016. Deb attends the majority of our paediatric transition clinics to ensure smooth transition from paediatrics to adult service for 16-18 year olds. Other roles include nurse clinics, both telephone and face to face, patient IBD helpline service and patient education. Deb will be commencing the non-medical prescribing course in 2022.
Rebecca Ryan
Becs qualified from Nottingham University with a Masters of Nursing Science in 2017. She began her career working in Critical Care in Nottingham looking after an array of specialities on the surgical high dependency unit. Becs also undertook the nutritional lead whilst in this role. She then went on to work in endoscopy at the Treatment Centre where her passion for gastro began. Whilst here Becs was the resuscitation trainer for the department. From here, she gained a role as an IBD nurse specialist in 2021 where she remains and continues to gain new skills.
Maxine Horner
Maxine qualified as a staff nurse at Derby School of Nursing in 1994. Her first Job as a staff nurse was at Nottingham urology services. In 1995 Maxine Started working in acute Medicine specialising in Gastroenterology were she became deputy sister before getting her job as an IBD nurse in 2010. Along the way Maxine has had experience with bed management across the trust,Tissue viability, Home parental nutrition and endoscopy.
Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner Gastroenterology
Azma Malik - Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner Gastroenterology
Azma qualified with MRPharmS with a First Class Honours degree in Pharmacy. She commenced her role as a junior pharmacist in gastroenterology in 2005 at Nottingham City Hospital. She later obtained her Clinical diploma and Independent Prescribing, Pharm IP and PG diploma whilst working her way up as a specialist clinical pharmacist in gastroenterology. Azma has served Gastroenterology as a Lead Specialist Pharmacist at NUH for more than 15 years, developing the pharmacy gastroenterology service. Azma has a specialist interest in IBD and TPN.
In 2017 Azma moved on to join the IBD specialist team as an Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner. A very unique role for the service taking on developing the virtual biologics prescribing across site for over 3000 patients. Azma provides specialist pharmacist support to our IBD patients as well as specialist advice to healthcare professionals.
