Historically patients with alcohol-related liver disease have received poor quality of care during their admission. In 2014, a guidance bundle was released by the the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL) to address this issue. This toolkit has recently received an update to incorporate recent advances in care and improve its usability as well as accessibility. A panel of guests join the podcast to discuss the perils of "bundle fatigu...
Jun 18, 2025•37 min•Ep. 17
The use of anti-diabetic medications such as pioglitazone or GLP-1 receptor agonists in the management of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is discussed in this podcast. Dr Oliver Tavabie, Deputy Editor at FG and Hepatology Consultant at the Leeds Liver Unit, interviews Drs Scott Isaacs and Paul Brennan. Dr Scott Isaacs is the President of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, U...
May 28, 2025•23 min•Ep. 16
This podcast focusses on the Frontline Gastroenterology review paper on anti-obesity medications, authored by Dr Lisa Sharkey. From GLP1-RA GI side effects to nutritional risks, MASLD management and endoscopy considerations — this is a must-listen for every practicing and trainee gastroenterologist navigating the metabolic medicine revolution. Read the manuscript on this link: Anti-obesity drugs for the gastroenterologists We hope you enjoy the #FGPodcast . Please follow @FrontGastro_BMJ . List...
Apr 23, 2025•23 min•Ep. 15
This podcast is focused on the paper "Pancreatitis in children: practical management from the BSPGHAN Pancreatitis Working Group”, published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in February 2025. Dr Oliver Tavabie, Deputy Editor at FG and Hepatology Consultant at the Leeds Liver Unit, interviews the authors Drs Vangelis Giamouris and Tassos Grammatikopoulos from King's College Hospital Read the paper on the Frontline Gastroenterology website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/16/2/155 We hope you enjoy...
Mar 18, 2025•18 min•Ep. 14
Increased international travel has brought infectious diseases, once rarely encountered, into a broader setting. One such disease is Amoebiasis, which can be dangerous due to its possible presentation as inflammatory bowel disease. Deputy editor Dr. Aditi Kumar speaks with the authors of a recent paper on this subject, Dr. Joseph Cooney¹, Prof. Peter Chiodini² and Prof. Richard Pollok¹, titled " Recent advances in the diagnosis and management of amoebiasis " 1. Department of Gastroenterology, St...
Feb 18, 2025•19 min•Ep. 13
This special podcast highlights the papers chosen to be part of the #FGCup , the annual Frontline Gastroenterology competition to choose the readers favourite review paper in 2024. Dr Giovanna McGinty, a Trainee Associate Editor for FG and Gastroenterology Registrar at North Bristol Trust interviews (and contributes to the discussion) Dr Philip Smith, Editor in Chief of FG and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, Dr Aditi Kumar, Deputy Editor for...
Jan 08, 2025•26 min•Ep. 12
This podcast is focused on the paper "Investigation of abnormal liver blood tests in patients with inflammatory bowel disease”, published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in September 2024. Dr Oliver Tavabie, Deputy Editor at FG and Hepatology Consultant at the Leeds Liver Unit, and Dr Giovanna McGinty, Trainee Associate Editor at FG and Gastroenterology SpR at North Bristol Foundation Trust, interviews the authors Drs Jenny Scott, Consultant Gastroenterologist at Stockport NHS Foundation Tr...
Dec 17, 2024•22 min•Ep. 11
Dr Aditi Kumar, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Consultant Gastroenterologist in Wolverhampton, UK interviews Dr Benjamin Zare, Gastroenterology registrar and a clinical research fellow undertaking his PhD at St Marks Academic Institute, London UK and Dr Mark Samaan who is a Consultant Gastroenterologist with a sub-specialist interest in IBD working at Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust in London, UK, on the paper ' Effectiveness of risankizumab induction and maintenance the...
Nov 22, 2024•21 min•Ep. 10
Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor and Associate Editor of FG and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Sandeep Joshi, Specialist Registrar in Oral Medicine, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London and Dr Joel Mawdsley, Consultant Gastroenterologist and IBD specialist in the Department of Gastroenterology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London on the paper 'Oral manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease: a guide t...
May 20, 2024•17 min•Ep. 9
Dr Vivek Goodoory, trainee associate editor at Frontline Gastroenterology and Gastroenterology registrar at Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, Leeds UK, Dr Philip Dunne, Trainee Associate Editor at Frontline Gastroenterology trainee editor and Gastroenterology registrar in the West of Scotland deanery, Glasgow UK and Dr Giovanna McGinty, Trainee Associate Editor at Frontline Gastroenterology and a gastroenterology registrar at North Bristol Trust, Bristol, UK interview Dr Elizabeth Ratcliffe, Ga...
Feb 13, 2024•30 min•Ep. 8
Dr Philip Smith, Associate and Education Editor of BMJ Open Gastroenterology and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Yago González Lama from the IBD Unit, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain, on the paper "Controversies in the management of anti-TNF therapy in patients with Crohn’s disease: A Delphi consensus" published in BMJ Open Gastroenterology - https://bmjop...
Jan 26, 2024•12 min•Ep. 7
Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Sailish Honap, post CCT Clinical Research fellow in IBD based at King’s College London and Dr Kamal Patel, Consultant Gastroenterologist and IBD specialist in the Department of Gastroenterology, St. George’s Hospital, London, UK, on the paper 'JAK Inhibitors for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Recent Adv...
Jan 15, 2024•31 min•Ep. 6
Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK and Dr James Kennedy, Trainee Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology, and Academic Research Fellow and Registrar in Gastroenterology in the Thames Valley Deanery, UK interviews Dr Glenys Jones, Deputy Chief Executive of the Association for Nutrition, London, UK, on the paper 'Teaching medical students abou...
Dec 14, 2023•9 min•Ep. 5
Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK and Dr Mohsan Subhani, Trainee Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Gastroenterology Registrar in the East Midland Deanery, Nottingham, UK interview Dr Dina Mansour, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, UK and Dr Coral Hollywood, Consultant...
Nov 16, 2023•21 min
Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, and Dr Philip Dunne, Trainee Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Gastroenterology Registrar in the West of Scotland deanery, Glasgow UK interviews Dr Dina Mansour, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, UK and Dr Lynsey Corless, Consultant ...
Oct 18, 2023•28 min•Ep. 4
Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK and Dr Gio Sheiybani, Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor and Gastroenterology Registrar in the Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK interview Dr Dina Mansour, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, UK and Professor Dhiraj Tripathi, Consultant Hepatologis...
Sep 20, 2023•23 min•Ep. 3
Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK and Dr Rex Wan-Hin Hui, Trainee Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology, Clinical practitioner and Honorary Resident at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong interviews Dr Rebecca O’Kane, from Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK, on the paper 'Hepatitis C: recent advances and practical management’ pub...
Aug 16, 2023•18 min•Ep. 2
In this co-interview, both Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of FG and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, and Dr Vivek Goodoory, Frontline Gastroenterology trainee editor, Clinical Research Fellow and Registrar in Gastroenterology at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, interview Dr Nasar Aslam, Endoscopy Research fellow at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, on the paper 'Minimally invasive endoscopic thera...
Apr 28, 2023•15 min
Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of FG and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Simon Everett, Consultant Gastroenterologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK and BSG ERCP and EUS Quality improvement Lead, on the paper 'Individualised consent for endoscopy: update on the 2016 BSG guidelines’ published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in February 2023: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early...
Mar 23, 2023•31 min
Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor and Associate Editor of FG and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Keith Siau, Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, Cornwall, UK and Dr Aravinth Murugananthan, Consultant Gastroenterologist at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK and Director of the Midlands Endoscopy Training Academy on the paper 'JAG consensus statements for training and cert...
Mar 01, 2023•33 min
The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the January 2023 issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/14/1/1 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/14/1 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.
Feb 14, 2023•10 min
Dr Philip Smith(1) interviews Dr James Ashton(2) on the papers, "The importance of high quality ‘big data’ in the application of artificial intelligence in inflammatory bowel disease" and "Artificial intelligence and inflammatory bowel disease: practicalities and future prospects" published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in 2022. Read the articles in Frontline Gastroenterology here: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2022/11/17/flgastro-2022-102342 https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/4/325 (1) Soc...
Jan 04, 2023•13 min
Dr Aditi Kumar(1) is joined by Professor Andrew Hopper(2) to discuss the role and importance of endoscopy in patients diagnosed with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). Read the article in Frontline Gastroenterology here: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/e1/e72 (1) Trainee associate editor for Frontline Gastroenterology and gastroenterology trainee in the West Midlands. (2) Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe ...
Nov 21, 2022•22 min
Dr Kevin Monahan(1) explains what the general gastroenterologist needs to know about the diagnosis and management of patients with Lynch syndrome, including considerations for endoscopy surveillance and changes to the BCS programme. Read the article in Frontline Gastroenterology here: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/e1/e80 (1) Consultant Gastroenterologist, Family Cancer Clinic and Wolfson Endoscopy Unit, St Mark's Hospital Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Pod...
Oct 19, 2022•20 min
Dr Philip Smith, Associate and Social Media Editor of FG and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, interviews Dr Jeremy Nightingale, Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist and Intestinal Failure specialist from St Mark’s Hospital, London, UK, on the paper 'How to manage a high output stoma' published in Frontline Gastroenterology in 2021 and on the website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/2/140. Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts,...
Sep 20, 2022•20 min
This is the second in a new series of BMJ Open Gastroenterology interviews, in which we will be covering high-profile publications in conjunction with the lead authors of the papers. In this episode we are focusing on a paper entitled ‘Iron deficiency anaemia: pathophysiology, assessment, practical management’ published online in January 2022 (https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/content/9/1/e000759). Dr James Ashton, Social Media Editor of BMJOG, interviews the authors Dr. Aditi Kumar(1) and Prof. Mat...
Aug 31, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Please listen to and enjoy the Editor-in-Chief Mark Beattie's highlights from the special edition of Frontline Gastroenterology put together to celebrate BSG Live 2022, with the overarching theme "Moving forward post-pandemic". The content reflects the breadth and strength of our specialty with first-class reviews written by speakers from and linked to content at the meeting. Read the UpFront of the August 2022 issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/e1/e1 The full iss...
Aug 16, 2022•14 min
The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the July 2022 issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/4/271 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/4 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.
Aug 03, 2022•10 min
Dr Philip Smith, Associate and Social Media Editor of FG and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Bel Kok who is a Consultant Gastroenterologist in the Department of Gastroenterology, Royal London Hospital, Barts and The London NHS Trust, London, UK on the paper 'Understanding and managing psychological disorders in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a practical guide' published in paper copy in Frontline Gastroenterology in May 2022 a...
Jul 26, 2022•16 min
The highlights of the latest edition of the journal brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the May 2022 issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/3/183 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/3 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.
Jun 13, 2022•9 min
