November 19–21, 2025

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Welcome to the 23rd Annual Frontiers in Colorectal and Intestinal Disease with a spotlight on ‘Prevention in Practice: Innovative Strategies to Reduce Disease Burden’. The conference takes place between November 19–21, 2025.

15 CPD Points approved by the ACPGBI

19 CPD Credits approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians UK

The Frontiers programme

To see our programme of sessions and lectures and speakers, please click below:

Frontiers 2025 Programme

Round table workshops

Booking will be available shortly to registered attendees – limited space, pre-booking will be essential

Step into our roundtable workshops—intimate, interactive sessions offering direct, face-to-face access to leading specialists for deeper dialogue and personalised insights.

• IBD WORKSHOP Hepatobiliary manifestations in IBD: 
a holistic clinical perspective – Jayshri Shah, Nina Stafford, Luke Tyson
• INTESTINAL REHABILITATION WORKSHOP 
Prevention of intestinal failure through optimal medical management – Mani Naghibi, Flora Kokwaro
• COLON CANCER WORKSHOP Exercise improves colon cancer outcome – 
run or walk with the experts: from robotics to CME – Danilo Miskovic, Elaine Burns
• ENDOSCOPY WORKSHOP 
Innovations in endoscopy – Brian Saunders, Maggie Vance, Ahmir Ahmad
• IBD WORKSHOP 
A multi-disciplinary approach to perianal Crohn’s disease  – Ailsa Hart, Phil Tozer
• HEREDITARY COLORECTAL CANCER WORKSHOP 
Hereditary colorectal cancer – Sue Clark, Andrew Latchford
• IBD & NUTRITION WORKSHOP Out with the old, in with the new: Crohn’s disease nutritional and medical management updates from 2025 IBD guidelines – Naila Arebi, Gabriela Poufou
• COMPLEX CANCER WORKSHOP 
Local advanced and recurrent rectal cancer: meet the St Mark’s team – Ian Jenkins, Nicola Hodges

The Dean’s welcome

Prof. Naila Arebi, Dean, St Mark’s Academic Institute

It is my pleasure and privilege as Dean of St Mark’s Academic Institute to welcome you to London to our 23rd Annual Frontiers in Colorectal and Intestinal Disease. This year the focus is Prevention in Practice: Innovative Strategies to Reduce Disease Burden. We look forward to welcoming a face-to-face audience to our fantastic venue, King’s Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG.

In addition, we are delighted to welcome our online audience from around the world. We will be making full use of high quality audio visual facilities to give our audience an excellent experience, whether you are with us in person, or joining us from elsewhere in the world.

Frontiers 2025 Visiting Professors

We will also present cutting edge research, and are honoured to have Michael Camilleri (USA) as our Sir Francis Avery Jones Visiting Professor, George Chang (USA) as our Sir Alan Parks Visiting Professor, Johan Burisch (Denmark) as our John Lennard-Jones Visiting Professor, and Eva Angenete (Sweden) is the presenting the Basil Morson State of the Art Lecture.

‘Endoscopy advanced polyp management, which intervention?’ – Panel from Frontiers 2024

The congress will cover a broad range of topics, all of which are multidisciplinary, and encompass real issues that we deal with day-to-day in our clinics, presented by leading experts.

Dr Kevin Monahan (Consultant Gastroenterologist) and Ms Elaine Burns (Consultant Surgeon)

We will combine medical, endoscopic, radiological, oncological, surgical, nursing and nutritional expertise throughout the programme, and also ensure that our patients’ voice is loudly heard.

We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to all supporters for their assistance and contribution to this congress.

We hope that you find the conference interesting, stimulating, educational and, at times, controversial.

If you have a specific query, you can contact us on info@stmarksacademicinstitute.org.uk. We look forward to welcoming you to another fantastic conference, see you there!

Prof. Naila Arebi, Dean

This conference is proudly endorsed by the BSG, The British Society of Gastroenterology & ECCO: European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation.

Thank you to our sponsors

Watch our highlights reel of Frontiers 2024