BSGAR Travelling Professor Study Day

National Imaging Academy Wales is pleased to host Dr Anthony Higginson and Dr Nigel Grunshaw as part of the Travelling Professor Scheme.

Funded by the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) and in collaboration with British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (BSGAR), the scheme aims to highlight Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology, promoting acquisition best practices and reporting techniques while also fostering specialist interest in GI Radiology as a future career option. During the study day, attending trainees and clinicians are invited to explore this exciting speciality through didactic sessions, a live demonstration and patient scanning.

BSGAR is currently supporting Dr Anthony Higginson and Dr Nigel Grunshaw, whose previous workshops were cancelled due to COVID-19. They are both experts in bowel ultrasound, an area of expertise that is not currently as widely taught or practiced as other diagnostic imaging specialities in Wales.

Dr Tony Higginson

• Consultant GI Radiologist
• Performing transabdominal, transrectal and Endoscopic ultrasound
• BSGAR / RCR Visiting Professor alongside Dr Nigel Grunshaw since just before the pandemic
• Actively involved in providing Webinar teaching during COVID including for the SRT.
• We have both taught and lectured together for far too long (for nearly 20 years) including at BSGAR, BMUS
• Part of an EFSUMB GI US task force group
• Part of the working party for the RCR document "standards for the provision of an ultrasound service" in 2014
• Passionate about widening the provision of bowel ultrasound services in the UK for the benefit of patients.

Dr Nigel Grunshaw

• Consultant GI Radiologist University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS Trust
• Qualified from Newcastle upon Tyne
• Trained in Medicine/Gastroenterology and subsequently Radiology in Leeds
• 20+ years’ experience of GI Ultrasound scanning with over 15000 GI ultrasound scans performed
• Organiser of numerous lecture courses and workshops in GI Ultrasound
• Major interest in inflammatory Bowel Disease and Ultrasound of the acute abdomen.
• Developed an acute rapid access IBD Ultrasound imaging clinic with IBD nurses.
• Appointed joint RCR/ BSGAR Travelling Professor in GI Ultrasound
• When not locating the distal ileum and appendix enjoys fell walking gardening cooking and cricket.

This is an internal event and is currently closed for registration. If you have any queries, please contact the Imaging Academy: imaging.academy@wales.nhs.uk