Gord Centre

Tel: +44 (0) 207 636 8248
Fax: +44 (0) 207 935 4984
Email: enquiries@gordcentre.org

Dr Philip Shorvon, M.A. (Cantab), M.B.B.S, F.R.C.P., F.R.C.R.
Consultant Radiologist

Dr Philip Shorvon was trained in Medicine at  St Thomas' Hospital in London, having previously studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge. He qualified  in Medicine in 1976, gained his Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1979 (and subsequently elected as a fellow in 2002). He trained in Radiology at the Middlesex Hospital in London and also spent a year as a Fellow in Radiology at McMaster University Medical Centre in Ontario, Canada.  In 1986  he obtained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists, and took up a Consultant Radiologist post in Radiology at the Central Middlesex Hospital in 1987. He is currently Consultant Radiologist for the North West London Hospitals NHS trust following mergers of local NHS Trusts.

His main interest has been in abdominal and gastrointestinal radiology. He has published about 40 peer reviewed articles and has 9 written chapters in medical textbooks. He has been a member of ESGAR (European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology ) since its inception, and was a founder member of SIGGAR (Special Interest Group in Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology) and is currently the Chairman of this. In the past he has been the Secretary and later the Chairman of the Radiological Section of the British Society of Radiology. He is also an elected member of the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology in the USA.

His special interests include barium radiology and he has lectured widely on this. He has developed a special interest in the barium assessment of reflux for selecting patients for laparoscopic surgery in conjunction with Mr John Rogers.

For more information please call us on 020 7636 8248 or email enquiries@gordcentre.org

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