Dr Joel Mawdsley

Dr Joel Mawdsley, BA (CANTAB), MBBS, MRCP, MD, is a consultant gastroenterologist at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust.

Dr Mawdsley undertook his pre-clincal studies at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He graduated with a first class honours degree, becoming a foundation scholar and winning the prestigious Max Bull Prize for Medicine. For his clinical studies he moved to Bart’s and the Royal London medical school where he graduated with distinction in clinical pharmacology and merits in clinical medicine and pharmacology.

As a specialist registrar, he trained on the north west Thames gastroenterology rotation spending periods of training at St Mary’s Hospital, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospital, St Mark’s hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.  He returned to the Royal London Hospital between 2003-05 as a clinical research fellow. Here, he completed a Doctorate of Medicine on the role of stress and psychoneuroimmunology in inflammatory bowel disease, publishing several high impact papers on the subject.

In 2007, he took up a consultant’s position at the West Middlesex University Hospital where he was based for 10 years. During this time was clinical lead for Inflammatory Bowel Disease and training lead for endoscopy. In 2017, he moved to his current post as a gastroenterologist with a special interest in IBD and is joint clinical lead for the IBD unit.