Professor Daniel Forton

Professor Daniel Forton is a respected London-based consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist. Specialising in diseases of the liver and gastrointestinal system, he holds appointments at St George's University Hospital and Medical School. His special interests include the medical and endoscopic management of diseases of the liver, pancreas and bile ducts. He is a skilled endoscopist, performing diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, including ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography) in addition to upper GI endoscopy and colonoscopy. He maintains a busy practice, always aiming to make his patients feel comfortable whilst offering them the most up to date and effective care possible. He is motivated to accurately understand symptoms in order to move rapidly to the correct diagnosis and treatment. He is often asked to give second opinions.

Professor Forton qualified in medicine at University College London in 1993 and then undertook specialist training in London teaching hospitals and performed important scientific research and clinical trials in the area of viral hepatitis. After gaining his PhD at Imperial College London, he was appointed a Consultant in 2005, was awarded his Chair in 2021 and now has many years of experience in managing both common and complex clinical conditions.

He has been Clinical Director for Acute Medicine and, as Associate Medical Director for Research at St Georges Hospital, he established the St George's NIHR Clinical Research Facility, which he currently directs. He was awarded the Dame Sheila Sherlock Research Medal for his research in liver disease. He is Director of the South West London Hepatitis C Operational Delivery Network. Professor Forton is a keen advocate of evidence-based medicine and continues to be a leading investigator in clinical trials of novel treatments in a range of liver diseases.