Personal Profile
Dr Chris Meaden is a full-time NHS Consultant Gastroenterologist. He is Clinical Director of the Lancashire Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, a Member of the British Society of Gastroenterology, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He has been a Consultant in the NHS since 2005 and is currently a senior Consultant at a regional referral centre for Gastroenterology.
He believes in allowing patients enough time and opportunity to express themselves and placing them at the centre of the decision-making process, after being informed of their options.
Patients who are referred to him typically have problems such as abdominal pain/discomfort, indigestion/heartburn/wind/bloating, a change in bowel habit (diarrhoea and constipation), bleeding at defaection, anaemia, gallstone problems, abnormal scan results, abnormal liver tests (LFT’s), or a family history of cancer affecting the digestive system. These complaints usually require a combination of tests including endoscopy, which he performs himself. Dr Meaden has particular expertise in endoscopy and is an endoscopy trainer at a National Endoscopy Training Centre. He is also an Accredited Bowel Cancer Screening Colonoscopist, which requires a higher level of expertise than general consultant endoscopy.
His practice is focussed on two main areas. The first is diagnosis and treatment of non-cancerous conditions which affect the digestive system. These include reflux, indigestion, ulcers, Helicobacter infection, gallstones, liver disease, constipation, diarrhoea, bloating, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticular disease and inflammatory bowel disease. The second is screening for and treating pre-cancerous and cancerous conditions of the gut, such as colonic polyps, Barrett’s oesophagus, bowel cancer and Upper GI cancers. This work usually involves endoscopy and Dr Meaden has performed several thousand of each of the main types of Endoscopy (Gastroscopy, Sigmoidoscopy, Colonoscopy and ERCP). Patients with these conditions often need additional, or alternative tests such as ultrasound scan, CT, MRI, FibroScan, oesophageal pH and manometry (for acid reflux and swallowing problems) and Capsule Endoscopy. Dr Meaden arranges these for his patients.
Dr Meaden is a graduate of Cambridge and Oxford Universities and completed specialist medical training in Gastroenterology and General Medicine in Sheffield,
Australia and Manchester. He completed a research degree (MD) in molecular virology and liver disease at The University of Manchester during specialist training.
He believes in allowing patients enough time and opportunity to express themselves and placing them at the centre of the decision-making process, after being informed of their options.
Patients who are referred to him typically have problems such as abdominal pain/discomfort, indigestion/heartburn/wind/bloating, a change in bowel habit (diarrhoea and constipation), bleeding at defaection, anaemia, gallstone problems, abnormal scan results, abnormal liver tests (LFT’s), or a family history of cancer affecting the digestive system. These complaints usually require a combination of tests including endoscopy, which he performs himself. Dr Meaden has particular expertise in endoscopy and is an endoscopy trainer at a National Endoscopy Training Centre. He is also an Accredited Bowel Cancer Screening Colonoscopist, which requires a higher level of expertise than general consultant endoscopy.
His practice is focussed on two main areas. The first is diagnosis and treatment of non-cancerous conditions which affect the digestive system. These include reflux, indigestion, ulcers, Helicobacter infection, gallstones, liver disease, constipation, diarrhoea, bloating, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticular disease and inflammatory bowel disease. The second is screening for and treating pre-cancerous and cancerous conditions of the gut, such as colonic polyps, Barrett’s oesophagus, bowel cancer and Upper GI cancers. This work usually involves endoscopy and Dr Meaden has performed several thousand of each of the main types of Endoscopy (Gastroscopy, Sigmoidoscopy, Colonoscopy and ERCP). Patients with these conditions often need additional, or alternative tests such as ultrasound scan, CT, MRI, FibroScan, oesophageal pH and manometry (for acid reflux and swallowing problems) and Capsule Endoscopy. Dr Meaden arranges these for his patients.
Dr Meaden is a graduate of Cambridge and Oxford Universities and completed specialist medical training in Gastroenterology and General Medicine in Sheffield,
Australia and Manchester. He completed a research degree (MD) in molecular virology and liver disease at The University of Manchester during specialist training.
