Dr. Haidry is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and interventional endoscopist at University College Hospital, London. He trained at St Mary’s Hospital in London and completed his Specialist Gastroenterology training in North East London. He was then appointed to a two-year academic fellowship at UCL where he examined state of the art and innovative diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of early cancers arising in the gastrointestinal tract.
He was appointed as a consultant in 2011. He was until recently the director of endoscopy for the division of gastroenterology at University College Hospital and leads the upper GI interventional endoscopic unit. He is currently the clinical lead for G.I Medicine at his institution. His main interests are therapeutic and innovative endoscopic procedures. In particular he has focused his interest in the diagnosis and endoscopic treatments of pre-malignant and malignant disorders of the upper gastrointestinal tract, with a particular interest in Barrett’s neoplasia, Squamous neoplasia and early oesophageal cancer. He has over the last 5 years also developed a clinical research portfolio developing metabolic, bariatric endoscopic and anti-reflux procedures such as Duodenal mucosal resurfacing (DMR), Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty (ESG) and Trans-oral incisionless fundoplication (TIF).
He has an academic position of Associate Professor at UCL where he supervises his team of research fellows and nurse to generate research into the endoscopic techniques and procedures he carries out to improve and streamline the care we give to our patients. His main areas of clinical research focus on novel and innovative endoscopic imaging techniques, artificial intelligence in endoscopy and therapeutic endoscopic approaches such as endoscopic resection, radiofrequency ablation, cryoablation, and metabolic/ bariatric endoscopy. He is a member of the BSG endoscopy committee and continues to well published with several original articles and co-authored guidelines.