Dr George Webster
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Digestive Health
Sub-specialties: Digestive Health, Gastroscopy, Colonoscopy, Flexible Sigmoidoscopy, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Abdominal Pain, Gastroenterology, Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography, Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy , Luminal Gastroenterology, Hepato-Biliary and Pancreatic Disease, Gallstones, Pancreatitis, Abnormal Liver Function, Pancreatic Cancer, Heartburn, Cholangioscopy, Luminal Obstruction, Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Colonic Polyps, Sphincter of Odd Dysfunction, Colon Cancer.
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Overview
Dr. Webster is a consultant gastroenterologist here at OneWelbeck. He is also the clinical lead for hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) medicine at University College London Hospital. He is Vice President of Endoscopy at the British Society of Gastroenterology, on the Council of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
About Dr George Webster
Dr. George Webster is a consultant gastroenterologist, hepatologist, and Partner at OneWelbeck, specialising in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy.
He is the clinical lead for hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) medicine at University College London Hospitals, where he has been a consultant since 2003. He has a large clinical practice in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy and receives referrals for specialist care from throughout the UK.
He is Vice President of Endoscopy at the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG), on the Council of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and is director of the annual London Live Endoscopy course.
“I am confident that with an outstanding consultant and endoscopy nursing team, working in a superb new environment, patients will find the calm, reassuring and expert environment second to none.”
Career Highlights:
Dr George Webster has 15 years’ experience as a consultant in one of the busiest gastroenterology centres in the UK, University College London Hospitals.
He gained his medical qualifications at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in 1991, and then went on to complete his postgraduate training at the Royal Brompton, Hammersmith and Whittington hospitals. He undertook clinical training in gastroenterology, hepatology and endoscopy in London at the Royal Free, Barts, The Royal London and the Middlesex/UCL hospitals, and then in Sydney. He was appointed as consultant in 2003.
He is lead for HPB medicine at UCLH, and his clinical focus is in advanced diagnostic and interventional endoscopy. He has one of the largest lifetime experiences in biliary endoscopy (ERCP) in the UK, and now delivers the largest cholangioscopy practice in Europe (involving the direct visualisation and investigation of suspicious strictures, and the treatment of difficult stones within the bile duct and pancreas).
Dr George Webster partnered with Welbeck Health Partners in 2018 to collaboratively develop the OneWelbeck Digestive Health Centre.
Areas of Expertise
Dr George Webster provides a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopies, including:
- Gastroscopy (OGD)
- Colonoscopy
- ERCP (Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography)
- PEG (Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy)
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Cholangioscopy (direct endoscopy into bile and pancreatic ducts)
- Luminal (oesophagus, gastroduodenal, colonic) stent insertion
Some of the conditions he commonly treats are:
- Investigation and treatment of all forms of liver, biliary and pancreatic disease
- Abdominal pain and irritable bowel syndrome
- Gallstone disease
- Pancreatitis
- Abnormal liver tests
- Pancreatic and bile duct cancer
- Management of luminal obstruction
- IgG4-related disease
- Indigestion and heartburn
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Colon polyps and cancer
- Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction
Additional Information
Languages:
- English
Memberships:
- Vice President of Endoscopy at the British Society of Gastroenterology
- European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE)
External Position:
- Director of the annual London live Endoscopy Course
Research Highlights
He is actively involved in clinical research in various areas of gastroenterology, medicine, and advanced endoscopy, and has co-authored national and international guidelines related to primary sclerosing cholangitis, colonic stenting, ERCP practice, and gallstones. He is regularly invited to lecture on these topics in the UK, Europe and the US, and to perform live endoscopy demonstrations both nationally and internationally.
These areas of research have led to improved understanding of disease (e.g. the recognition, diagnosis and management of IgG4-related disease, and the observation that this may mimic malignancy), and in improved delivery of expert endoscopic practice nationally and internationally.
Dr Webster has published more than 70 peer-reviewed medical papers and 15 expert reviews. He is co-author of the Oxford Handbook of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and an author on endoscopy in the forthcoming 5th edition of the Oxford Textbook of Medicine.
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