Prof Shan Rajendra

Qualifications: MBBCh, MSc, MD, FRCP, FRCPE, FRACP

Professor Rajendra obtained his undergraduate medical degree from the National University of Ireland in 1988 and worked in the National Health Service, UK for 6 years. After a South-East Thames Gastroenterology and General Medicine career registrar rotation, he became a Research Fellow in the Digestive Diseases Research Centre, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, London. He is currently Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology), University of New South Wales, Senior Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist/Interventional Endoscopist and Head of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Bankstown Hospital, Sydney. He specializes in advanced therapeutic endoscopy including removal of large polyps and undertaking complicated bile/pancreatic duct procedures.

His main research interest is gastro-esophageal reflux disease and Barrett’s oesophagus and has well over 50 publications as first or last author. Till recently, he was a WEB committee member of the International Society of Diseases of the Oesophagus (ISDE) as well as an Associate Editor of its official publication, Diseases of the Esophagus. Having worked briefly in South-East Asia, he developed an interest in gut infections and has published on tropical sprue, a condition not dissimilar to small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO).

Prof Rajendra is the Founding Director and Lead Investigator of the Gastro-Intestinal Viral Oncology Group, Ingham Institute, Liverpool, Sydney. This was the first group in the world to discover that high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) is strongly associated with Barrett’s dysplasia and oesophageal adenocarcinoma.