Professor Omar Faiz: "Our vision is a future free from the fear of bowel disease."
St Mark’s Academic Institute is the centre of education at St Mark’s Hospital. It is dedicated to research, education and dissemination of best practice in the field of bowel disease.
The hospital is affiliated with experts and trainees from the UK and overseas and takes pride in a multidisciplinary approach to patients, combining both medical and surgical expertise with specialist nursing and paramedical skills.
We are committed to researching and developing new and more effective treatments for bowel disease to improve patients’ lived experience. The Institute educates and trains thousands of doctors and other healthcare professionals annually through live conferences, hands-on skills courses and digital webinars.
St Mark’s is renowned for ’Frontiers in Colorectal and Intestinal Disease’, the annual three-day international event. Each year we feature state of the art lectures from experts around the world, with each lecture named after one of the St Mark’s legends, the Sir Francis Avery Jones Lecture, Sir Alan Parks Lecture, John Lennard-Jones Lecture, and the Basil Morson Lecture.
The congress covers a broad range of topics, all of which are multidisciplinary and encompass real-world issues and future directions in bowel disease presented by leading experts. It combines medical, endoscopic, radiological, oncological, surgical, nursing and nutritional expertise in the programme.
The hospital showcases the latest research and also ensures the patients’ voice is loudly heard. The congress has been running for more than 20 years and reaches a global audience live and online.
