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Dr Hoare trained at Cambridge University and St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1993. He undertook a PhD as an MRC research fellow in viral hepatitis and gene therapy from 1998 until 2001. His clinical gastroenterology training was in various north London hospitals including a prolonged attachment at St Mark’s Hospital where he was the first Fujinon Advanced Endoscopy Fellow in 2006, before being appointed as consultant at St Mary’s.

He is head of endoscopy for the Imperial College hospital’s. In 2010 he was awarded a British Society of Gastroenterology Travelling Fellowship to study advanced endoscopic techniques at the National Cancer Centre in Tokyo and he is a medical adviser to the Barrett’s Oesophagus Campaign, a registered charity which works toward improving the care of patients with Barrett’s oesophagus and oesophageal cancer. His clinical practice encompasses all aspects of gastroenterology including inflammatory bowel disease and functional problems such as irritable bowel.

His specialist endoscopic interests include the detection and treatment of early gastrointestinal cancer and he is an accredited colonoscopist on the National Bowel Cancer Screening programme. Other interests include the management of difficult gastrointestinal bleeding, small bowel capsule endoscopy and enteroscopy.

Julian Teare is professor of gastroenterology at Imperial College London and consultant gastroenterologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Royal Marsden NHS Trust.

Professor Teare received his undergraduate medical training at The University of London. He has been based at St Mary’s Hospital for over 20 years, taking up a senior registrar position in gastroenterology and general medicine in 1993. Over the last 20 years he has held many distinguished positions within St Mary’s and Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust including clinical governance lead for medicine, emergency services lead and service director for gastroenterology/hepatology and chest medicine. He is head of endoscopy at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

He has a vast range of teaching and assessment responsibilities. He delivers lectures and seminars to both undergraduate and postgraduate students alongside his ongoing education of doctors and allied healthcare professionals within the NHS. He currently provides academic and pastoral supervision to several PhD students.

His own research career started during his doctoral studies on the aetiology of alcoholic liver disease. He has gone on to be highly cited in the gastroenterology field with nearly 100 publications to his name. His current research interests are diverse including use of a dudoenal-jejunal sleeve liner for the management of Type 2 diabetes which is the basis of substantial research funding with £1.6million from the NIHR/MRC EME programme. He is active in the Hamlyn Centre developing novel endoscope platforms for use in endoscopy and minimal access surgery with two Wellcome Trust translational awards valued at over £5 million. He is also in receipt of BRC funding from a combined Imperial/Royal Marsden award to investigate the role of intestinal microflora in the development of colorectal cancer.

He also provides specialist advice to distinguished bodies including NICE and the Royal College of Physicians.