Dr Matthew Brown is a consultant gastroenterologist and general physician. He qualified from the University of Bristol Medical School in 2001 with an honours degree in Medicine and a first-class honours degree in Anatomy. During his medical training he was awarded numerous prizes, including Mary Edith Evans Award in anatomy and Distinction in Clinical Medicine. He completed his postgraduate general medical training in the teaching hospitals of the University of Bristol, including a period working as Anatomy Demonstrator in the University of Bristol Medical School.

Following achieving the MRCP (UK) qualification, he began his specialist training in gastroenterology in the Wessex deanery. During his specialist training he developed an interest in inflammatory bowel disease, clinical nutrition and luminal gastroenterology. Between 2009 and 2012 he completed his PhD in the University of Nottingham Digestive Disease Centre Biomedical Research Unit, exploring the molecular aspects of gut mucosal inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease. He was awarded the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and Unit Experimental Medicine Training Camp Award and the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation Clinical Research Fellowship Award.

In 2013 Dr Brown was appointed as an NHS consultant gastroenterologist and physician in Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT), working predominantly on the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital site. He has a specialist interest in inflammatory bowel disease, clinical nutrition, functional bowel diseases (including irritable bowel syndrome and associated disorders) and general luminal gastroenterology. He is proficient in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tracts (gastroscopy, ileoscopy, sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy), including polypectomy, EMR, percutaneous feeding tube insertion and cancer surveillance.

In 2017 he was appointed as a prestigious Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP). He is actively involved in clinical research and leads several clinical research studies. He is currently the Associate Clinical Director for Research in the Medical Division of HHFT.

• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Clinical nutrition
• Luminal gastroenterology
• Functional bowel disease
• GI endoscopy (gastroscopy, sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy and ileoscopy)
• General hepatology

• Royal College of Physicians of London (RCP London)
• British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)
• Medical Protection Society (MPS)