Dr Nick Thompson is a Consultant Gastroenterologist with a special interest in clinical nutrition and inflammatory bowel disease.
Dr Thompson trained in London and was a research fellow at the Royal Free Hospital where he completed an MD in the epidemiology of Crohn’s disease.
He came to the north-east as a senior registrar and was appointed as a Consultant in Newcastle in 1998. He helped develop the Freeman Hospital as a Specialist Centre for intestinal failure over the past 15 years, with one of the largest patient groups in the UK on Home Parenteral Nutrition.
Dr Thompson also helped develop the Northern Nutrition Network which was awarded the joint Shire/British Society of Gastroenterology prize for Excellence in 2012.
He has multiple publications in clinical nutrition and IBD and during 2017-19 Nick held the role of Senior Secretary of the British Society of Gastroenterology. Within the Trust Nick has been Clinical Director for Medicine and one of the Associated Medical Directors.
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