FG Podcast

Dr Vivek Goodoory, trainee associate editor at Frontline Gastroenterology and Gastroenterology registrar at Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, Leeds UK, Dr Philip Dunne, Trainee Associate Editor at Frontline Gastroenterology trainee editor and Gastroenterology registrar in the West of Scotland deanery, Glasgow UK and Dr Giovanna McGinty, Trainee Associate Editor at Frontline Gastroenterology and a gastroenterology registrar at North Bristol Trust, Bristol, UK interview Dr Elizabeth Ratcliffe, Gastroenterology registrar and ex-chair of the BSG trainees' section committee, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK and Dr Emma Saunsbury, Gastroenterology registrar and Severn and Peninsula BSG representation to the trainees' section, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, UK on the paper "UK-wide survey of gastroenterology and hepatology trainees in 2022: endoscopy, workforce planning and the Shape of things to come published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in October 2023 - https://fg.bmj.com/content/15/1/35 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

Dr Philip Smith, Associate and Education Editor of BMJ Open Gastroenterology and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Yago González Lama from the IBD Unit, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain, on the paper "Controversies in the management of anti-TNF therapy in patients with Crohn’s disease: A Delphi consensus" published in BMJ Open Gastroenterology - https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/content/11/1/e001246 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Sailish Honap, post CCT Clinical Research fellow in IBD based at King’s College London and Dr Kamal Patel, Consultant Gastroenterologist and IBD specialist in the Department of Gastroenterology, St. George’s Hospital, London, UK, on the paper 'JAK Inhibitors for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Recent Advances’ published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in September 2023: https://fg.bmj.com/content/15/1/59Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK and Dr James Kennedy, Trainee Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology, and Academic Research Fellow and Registrar in Gastroenterology in the Thames Valley Deanery, UK interviews Dr Glenys Jones, Deputy Chief Executive of the Association for Nutrition, London, UK, on the paper 'Teaching medical students about nutrition: from basic principles to practical strategies’ published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in June 2023 - https://fg.bmj.com/content/14/5/422Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK and Dr Mohsan Subhani, Trainee Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Gastroenterology Registrar in the East Midland Deanery, Nottingham, UK interview Dr Dina Mansour, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, UK and Dr Coral Hollywood, Consultant Hepatologist at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK on the paper 'British Society of Gastroenterology Best practice guidance: Outpatient management of cirrhosis Part 3 - Special circumstances’ published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in July 2023: https://fg.bmj.com/content/14/6/474 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, and Dr Philip Dunne, Trainee Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Gastroenterology Registrar in the West of Scotland deanery, Glasgow UK interviews Dr Dina Mansour, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, UK and Dr Lynsey Corless, Consultant Hepatologist, Hull Universities Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK, on the paper 'British Society of Gastroenterology Best practice guidance: outpatient management of cirrhosis, part 2 – decompensated cirrhosis’ published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in July 2023: https://fg.bmj.com/content/14/6/462 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK and Dr Gio Sheiybani, Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor and Gastroenterology Registrar in the Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK interview Dr Dina Mansour, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, UK and Professor Dhiraj Tripathi, Consultant Hepatologist and Clinical Director of Research at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, on the paper 'British Society of Gastroenterology Best Practice guidance: outpatient management of cirrhosis Part 1 – compensated cirrhosis’ published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in July 2023 and available online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/14/6/453    Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK and Dr Rex Wan-Hin Hui, Trainee Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology, Clinical practitioner and Honorary Resident at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong interviews Dr Rebecca O’Kane, from Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK, on the paper 'Hepatitis C: recent advances and practical management’ published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in June 2023: https://fg.bmj.com/content/14/5/415  Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

In this co-interview, both Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of FG and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, and Dr Vivek Goodoory, Frontline Gastroenterology trainee editor, Clinical Research Fellow and Registrar in Gastroenterology at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, interview Dr Nasar Aslam, Endoscopy Research fellow at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, on the paper 'Minimally invasive endoscopic therapies for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease’, published in Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/14/3/249. Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor of FG and Social Media Associate Editor and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Simon Everett, Consultant Gastroenterologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK and BSG ERCP and EUS Quality improvement Lead, on the paper 'Individualised consent for endoscopy: update on the 2016 BSG guidelines’ published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in February 2023: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2023/02/07/flgastro-2022-102353 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

Dr Philip Smith, Deputy Editor and Associate Editor of FG and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Keith Siau, Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, Cornwall, UK and Dr Aravinth Murugananthan, Consultant Gastroenterologist at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK and Director of the Midlands Endoscopy Training Academy on the paper 'JAG consensus statements for training and certification in colonoscopy’ published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in January 2023 and available online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2023/01/26/flgastro-2022-102260 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the January 2023 issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/14/1/1 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/14/1 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Dr Philip Smith(1) interviews Dr James Ashton(2) on the papers, "The importance of high quality ‘big data’ in the application of artificial intelligence in inflammatory bowel disease" and "Artificial intelligence and inflammatory bowel disease: practicalities and future prospects" published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in 2022. Read the articles in Frontline Gastroenterology here: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2022/11/17/flgastro-2022-102342 https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/4/325 (1) Social Media and Associate Editor of FG and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK. (2) Paediatric Gastroenterology trainee at the Southampton Children’s Hospital, Southampton, UK, and Clinical Lecturer in Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine at the University of Southampton Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

Dr Aditi Kumar(1) is joined by Professor Andrew Hopper(2) to discuss the role and importance of endoscopy in patients diagnosed with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). Read the article in Frontline Gastroenterology here: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/e1/e72 (1) Trainee associate editor for Frontline Gastroenterology and gastroenterology trainee in the West Midlands. (2) Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

Dr Kevin Monahan(1) explains what the general gastroenterologist needs to know about the diagnosis and management of patients with Lynch syndrome, including considerations for endoscopy surveillance and changes to the BCS programme. Read the article in Frontline Gastroenterology here: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/e1/e80 (1) Consultant Gastroenterologist, Family Cancer Clinic and Wolfson Endoscopy Unit, St Mark's Hospital Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

Dr Philip Smith, Associate and Social Media Editor of FG and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, interviews Dr Jeremy Nightingale, Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist and Intestinal Failure specialist from St Mark’s Hospital, London, UK, on the paper 'How to manage a high output stoma' published in Frontline Gastroenterology in 2021 and on the website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/2/140. Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

This is the second in a new series of BMJ Open Gastroenterology interviews, in which we will be covering high-profile publications in conjunction with the lead authors of the papers. In this episode we are focusing on a paper entitled ‘Iron deficiency anaemia: pathophysiology, assessment, practical management’ published online in January 2022 (https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/content/9/1/e000759). Dr James Ashton, Social Media Editor of BMJOG, interviews the authors Dr. Aditi Kumar(1) and Prof. Matthew Brookes(2). This paper is currently our most read article online and covers practical tips for diagnosis, management and additional investigations for this very common problem. Related blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjopengastro/2022/01/25/a-cutting-edge-review-iron-deficiency-anaemia-pathophysiology-assessment-practical-management/ Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. (1) Gastroenterology trainee at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (2) Consultant gastroenterologist and lead of gastroenterology clinical research program at Wolverhampton, Professor of gastroenterology at the University of Wolverhampton

Please listen to and enjoy the Editor-in-Chief Mark Beattie's highlights from the special edition of Frontline Gastroenterology put together to celebrate BSG Live 2022, with the overarching theme "Moving forward post-pandemic". The content reflects the breadth and strength of our specialty with first-class reviews written by speakers from and linked to content at the meeting. Read the UpFront of the August 2022 issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/e1/e1 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/e1 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the July 2022 issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/4/271 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/4 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Dr Philip Smith, Associate and Social Media Editor of FG and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Dr Bel Kok who is a Consultant Gastroenterologist in the Department of Gastroenterology, Royal London Hospital, Barts and The London NHS Trust, London, UK on the paper 'Understanding and managing psychological disorders in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a practical guide' published in paper copy in Frontline Gastroenterology in May 2022 and on the website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2022/05/23/flgastro-2022-102094. Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

The highlights of the latest edition of the journal brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the May 2022 issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/3/183 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/3 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

This is the first in a new series of BMJ Open Gastroenterology interviews, in which we will be covering high-profile publications in conjunction with the lead authors of the papers. In this quarter’s podcast, we will be discussing a review article entitled ‘Enteropathies with villous atrophy but negative coeliac serology in adults: current issues’ published online in November 2021 (https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/content/8/1/e000630). Dr James Ashton (Social Media Editor of BMJOG) interviews Dr. Annalisa Schiepatti, researcher at the University of Pavia, Italy, and a junior consultant at the Gastroenterology Unit of Maugeri Insitute in Pavia. Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the March 2022 issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/2/93 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/2 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Rumination in humans is a disorder of the gut-brain interaction affecting three percent of people worldwide. It's characterised by recurrent regurgitation without associated retching or significant nause​a. B​ehavioural therapies are proved to be effective​, with the potential to be successful at the primary care level. Dr Aditi Kumar, trainee associate editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and specialist gastroenterology registrar in the West Midlands, UK, interviews Dr Ben Disney, a Consultant Gastroenterologist at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, with a specialist interest on disorders of the gut-brain interaction. Also present is Dr Dipesh Vasant, a Consultant Gastroenterology and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, with a specialist interest in neurogastroenterology and motility disorders. This Frontline Gastroenterology podcast discusses the recently published paper in January 2022: “Rumination Syndrome: pathophysiology, diagnosis and practical assessment” - https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2022/01/10/flgastro-2021-101856. Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the January 2022 issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/1/1 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/1 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology, Mark Beattie. You can read here: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/7/541. The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/7 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

This podcast is focused on the paper "Serum ammonia use: unnecessary, frequent and costly”, published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in August 2021. Dr Oliver Tavabie, Trainee Associate Editor of FG and Hepatology SpR at the Royal London Hospital, interviews the authors Drs Elizabeth Aby, Andrew Olson and Nicholas Lim, from the University of Minnesota. Read the paper on the Frontline Gastroenterology website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2021/08/17/flgastro-2021-101837. Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

The UK incidence of acute pancreatitis is estimated as 15–42 cases per 100 000 per year and is rising. It has a mortality rate of 1%–7% which increases to around 20% in patients with pancreatic necrosis. In this podcast, Trainee Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology James Maurice talks to Dr Gavin Johnson (Department of Gastroenterology, University College Hospital, London) about the current diagnostic and management challenges in acute pancreatitis. Read the article on the FG website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/3/292.

This edition has a special focus on pancreatobiliary medicine, but also covers the cost and availability of products for people living with Coeliac Disease, a dietician first Gastroenterology clinic and the burden of hepatitis C. Read the UpFront of the July issue of Frontline Gastroenterology and the full issue: fg.bmj.com/content/10/3.

An ageing population, symptom awareness campaigns, reduced thresholds for referral and the development of screening programmes are contributing to the rise of endoscopy demand, but only high quality gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures can improve patient care. The British society of gastroenterology Endoscopy Quality Improvement Programme (EQIP), which aims to raise the standards across these procedures, is the topic of the conversation between Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie and Professor Colin Rees (Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, UK). Read the related paper online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/2/148.

James Maurice, Trainee Editor interviews Pradeep Bhandari, Consultant Gastroenterologist at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK, about his recent review, which provides a framework for improving the quality and safety of current practice of implementing new endoscopic technologies and techniques in the UK’s National Health Service. Read it on the Frontline Gastroenterology website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/2/155.

What does simulation training in healthcare have to do with aviation? And how can simulation training in so-called 'human factors' lead to better patient outcomes in endoscopy? Some of the questions covered in this conversation of Trainee Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology Johnathan Segal with Dr Srivathsan Ravindran and Dr Siwan Thomas-Gibson, both from the Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy, St Mark’s Hospital, London. They also discuss a variety of simulation modalities including in-situ simulation and how this fits into the UK-based ISREE strategy. This Frontline Gastroenterology podcast relates to the review “Improving safety and reducing error in endoscopy: simulation training in human factors”, included in the April 2019’s issue of the journal and is accessible here: fg.bmj.com/content/10/2/160

This edition has a special focus on endoscopy with an exciting collection of papers covering many different aspects (commissioned and submitted) including clinical research, quality improvement, opinion, and up-to-date and authoritative reviews written by experts. Read the UpFront of the April issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/2/89 The full issue is now also online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/2.

How has sedation in endoscopy evolved over the years? What’s the current practice and how it varies within the UK? Dr George Webster, consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist at the University College London Hospitals, answers these questions in conversation with Frontline Gastroenterology’s Trainee Associate Editor James Maurice (Imperial College London). They also explore the details of a paper recently published by the journal and the training opportunities for young gastroenterologists. Listen until the end for details of the upcoming British Society of Gastroenterology Endoscopy Live 2019, which will be held on the 7th and 8th of March in Gateshead, UK (https://www.bsg.org.uk/events/bsg-endoscopy-live.html). Read the full review paper on the FG website: Deep sedation and anaesthesia in complex gastrointestinal endoscopy: a joint position statement endorsed by the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG), Joint Advisory Group (JAG) and Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2019/01/09/flgastro-2018-101145

Newly appointed Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie brings you the highlights of the January issue. Get in touch with the journal via email (RM.Beattie@btinternet.com) and read the highlighted content: Highlights from the January issue - https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/1/1 Management of non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding: where are we in 2018? - https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/1/35 Curriculum based clinical reviews: Autoimmune hepatitis and complexities in management - https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/1/77 Research: Quality improvement initiative to reduce adverse effects associated with parenteral nutrition overfeeding - https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/1/67 Research: Gender differences in leadership, workforce and scholarly presentation within a national society: a gastroenterology perspective - https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/1/2 Research: Attitudes to out-of-programme experiences, research and academic training of gastroenterology trainees between 2007 and 2016 - https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/1/57

In this episode Manmeet Matharoo, Trainee Associate Editor for FG, talks to Dr Phillip Berry, Consultant hepatologist at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust about the FG Twitter Debate entitled "The Role of Critical Care in Cirrhosis: Futility vs Opportunity?"

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Manmeet Matharoo talks to Dr Gautam Mehta, a Honorary Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Hepatology at UCL, with interests in cirrhosis, acute-on-chronic liver failure and alcohol-related liver disease. Gautam also an interest in Digital Health - starting one of the first secondary prevention m-Health trials in the UK @alcochange Next month's twitter debate will be on the 8th June and co-hosted with the British Society of Gastroenterology @BritSocGastro. The debate is entitled: “With the current capacity crisis in the NHS, what is the future of specialist endoscopy?” and will be led by Professor Pradeep Bhandari (@gastro3570) a Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist at Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust, and winner of both the Hopkins Endoscopy Award and Crystal Award for his contributions to the field of gastroenterology” Please follow #FGDebate and #BSG2016

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Manmeet Matharoo talks to Dr Richard Hanson, Consultant Pediatric Gastroenterologist with a specialist interest in IBD and nutrition. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on 22nd March 2016 entitled, ‘Nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease’. The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Our next #FGDebate will be on Thursday 28th April 2016 8-9 BST with Dr Gautam Mehta. The topic this month will be ‘Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: All you need to know’.

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Manmeet Matharoo talks to Dr Gavin Johnson, Consultant Gastroenterologist with a sub-specialty interest in Pancreato-Billiary Medicine and Medical Education at University College Hospitals. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 23rd February 2016, at 8-9pm GMT entitled, ‘Gastroenterology Training in the UK and Beyond’. The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Dr Johnson has provided the slides used in the #FGDebate to help those interested in the topics covered. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. You can view the debate here >> https://storify.com/frontgastro_bmj/frontline-training View the slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2aZuY6foZ0wSjhyblo4OW1qMDc0VEJseXhPZEEtb0J0cFZB/view?usp=sharing

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to MS Kay Greveson, IBD Nurse Specialist and creator of the IBD Passport (www.ibdpassport.com) at the Royal Free Hospital, London. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 19th January 2016, at 8-9pm GMT entitled, 'Frontline IBD: Travel and IBD - advice from the IBD Passport'. The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Ms Greveson has provided the slides used in the #FGDebate to help those interested in the topics covered. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. View the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17cG_yIHu9t64MkofVZkH8uAz99lodsVUAorVyikEQcg/edit?usp=sharing The next #FGDebate is with Dr Gavin Johnson, Consultant Gastroenterologist at UCLH and ex BSG Education Chair, on Tuesday 23rd February 2016, at 8-9pm GMT and will discuss, 'Frontline Training: The shape of gastroenterology training in the UK and beyond’.

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Dr Anton Emmanuel, Editor in Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology and Consultant Neuro-Gastroenterologist at University College London Hospital. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 29th December 2015, at 8-9pm GMT entitled, 'Frontline IBS: An approach to treatment pathways?' The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Dr Emmanuel has provided the slides used in the #FGDebate to help those interested in the topics covered. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. View the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cpm3oP-o93sHB1MyJiYmlPy4cB1oQaYlhH127iQokdY/edit?usp=sharing The next #FGDebate is with Ms Kay Greveson, IBD Specialist Nurse at the Royal Free Hospital London on Tuesday 19th January 2016, at 8-9pm GMT and will discuss, ‘Frontline IBD: Travel and IBD - advice from the IBD Passport'.

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Dr David Patch, Consultant Herpetologist and Transplant Physician at the Royal Free Hospital, London. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 24th November 2015, at 8-9pm GMT entitled, 'Frontline Hepatology: Variceal Bleeding Guidelines' with Dr Patch and Dr Dhiraj Tripathi, Consultant Hepatologist and Transplant Physician. The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Dr Dhiraj Tripathi has provided the slides used in the #FGDebate to help those interested in the topics covered. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. View the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12zOL_IJcUltoqUM6Eqv0DYIKPVs2TWjOT278ZRWJJxI/edit?usp=sharing The next #FGDebate is our Xmas Special and is with Frontline Gastroenterology Editor in Chief Dr Anton Emmanuel on Tuesday 29th December 2015, at 8-9pm GMT and will discuss, ‘Frontline IBS: An approach to treatment pathways? '.

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge, and tenured Programme Leader and Professor of Cancer Prevention at the MRC Cancer Unit in Cambridge The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 6th October 2015, at 8-9pm GMT entitled, 'Frontline Barrett's: Screening, surveillance and therapy'. The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Professor Fitzgerald has also provided the slides used in the #FGDebate to help those interested in the topics covered. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. View the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jspQKIWcu2gm4pYLCeVoh-F6YoRiYI2fbXJnDQ9Rz1s/edit?usp=sharing The next #FGDebate is with Dr David Patch and Dr Dhiraj Tripathi on Tuesday 24th November 2015, at 8-9pm GMT and will discuss, ‘Frontline Hepatology: Variceal Bleeding Guidelines'.

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Dr Cathryn Edwards, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Torbay Hospital, South Devon. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 22nd September 2015, at 8-9pm GMT entitled, 'Frontline Gastroenterology: Supporting Women in Gastroenterology’. This #FGDebate was with the BSG Supporting Women in Gastroenterology (SWiG) team consisting of Dr Cathryn Edwards, Dr Alenka Brooks, Dr Jane Eaden, Dr Melanie Lockett, Dr Siwan Gibson-Thomas and Dr Penny Neild. The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Dr Edwards has also provided the slides the SWiG team used in #FGDebate to help those interested in the topics they covered. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. View the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16ntaiTa_AldLFJWjIlwq5-AjZQah-3Xy7F5zMLFhiqk/edit?usp=sharing The next #FGDebate is with Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, on Tuesday 6th October 2015, at 7-8pm GMT and will discuss, 'Frontline Barrett's: Screening, surveillance and therapy’ and is a UEGW Special #FGDebate.

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Dr Mark McAlindon, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Capsule Endoscopy Expert, Sheffield NHS Teaching Hospitals. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 7th July 2015, at 8-9pm GMT entitled, 'Frontline Capsule Endoscopy: The end of the endoscope is nigh?’. For a summary of the debate please visit the storify page: https://storify.com/FrontGastro_BMJ/frontline-capsule-endoscopy-the-end-of-the-endosco The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Dr McAlindon has also provided the slides he used in #FGDebate to help those interested in the topics he covered. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. View the slides: https://goo.gl/JYyTa9 There is no #FGDebate in August 2015 because of the summer break. The next #FGDebate is with the BSG Supporting Women in Gastroenterology (SWiG) team consisting of Dr Cathryn Edwards, Dr Alenka Brooks, Dr Jane Eaden, Dr Melanie Lockett, Dr Siwan Gibson-Thomas and Dr Penny Neild, on Tuesday 22nd September 2015, at 8-9pm GMT and will discuss, 'Frontline Gastroenterology: Supporting Women in Gastroenterology’

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Professor Andres Cardenas, Professor of Hepatology and FG Deputy Editor at the GI Unit, University of Barcelona, Spain. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 9th June 2015, at 8-9pm GMT entitled, 'Frontline Hepatology: Complications of cirrhosis - portal hypertension’. For a summary of the debate please visit the storify page: https://storify.com/FrontGastro_BMJ/frontline-hepatology The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Professor Cardenas has also provided the slides he used in #FGDebate to help those interested in the topics he covered. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. View the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19mx8icjWWhI0eIclc9ljvahnEHNyX5ZEi1TqkqEAr4s/edit?usp=sharing Don't miss the next #FGDebate with Dr Mark McAlindon, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Capsule Endoscopy expert, Sheffield NHS Teaching Hospitals, on Tuesday 7th July 2015, at 8-9pm GMT and will discuss, "Frontline Capsule Endoscopy: The end of the endoscope is nigh".

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Professor Edward Loftus, Professor of Gastroenterology and IBD at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Monday 11th May 2015, at 9-10pm GMT entitled, 'Frontline IBD: Hot topics in IBD’. For a summary of the debate please visit the storify page: https://storify.com/FrontGastro_BMJ/frontline-ibd-hot-topics-in-ibd The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Professor Loftus has also provided the slides he used in #FGDebate to help those interested in the hot topics he covered. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. View the slides: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2aZuY6foZ0wSEprMkdQQVB2Qzg&usp=sharing Don't miss the next Special DDW Twitter #FGDebate with Dr Andreas Cardenas, Staff Member of the Institute of Digestive Diseases and Metabolism at the Hospital Clinic and University of Barcelona and Associate Editor for Frontline Gastroenterology, on Tuesday 9th June 2015, at 8-9pm GMT and will discuss, "Frontline Hepatology: complications with cirrhosis focusing on portal hypertension"

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Dr Simon Gabe, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Intestinal Failure Specialist at St. Mark’s Hospital, London. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 14th April 2015, 8-9pm GMT, entitled 'Frontline Nutrition: The management of Intestinal Failure'. Prior to the debate Dr Gabe said: “Intestinal failure is increasingly recognised as a clinical condition and is divided into different subtypes. There are a number of different causes and although it is still rare for patients to require long-term parenteral nutrition, it is high cost, very demanding and requires an experienced MDT to manage such patients. There has been a desire to set up an intestinal failure network (HIFNET) in order to develop the service and set standards. Unfortunately, patients in different countries and different regions are managed in very different ways and some are not always offered this life-saving treatment. This #FGDebate aims to cover the different types of intestinal failure and its causes as well as issues related to the management of intestinal failure. Feeding patients using unused segments of intestine often present practical difficulties. The placement and selection of jejunal feeding tubes are often not straightforward. Parenteral nutrition formulation offers many challenges including different lipid types. New developments are also afoot with small bowel lengthening surgery, the introduction of intestinal growth factors and intestinal transplantation. These exciting areas will be addressed and relevant questions will be answered." The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Dr Gabe has also provided the slides he used in #FGDebate to help those interested understand the issues associated with Intestinal Failure. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. View the slides: http://goo.gl/QosfR5 Don't miss the next Special DDW Twitter #FGDebate with Professor Edward Loftus, Professor of Gastroenterology and IBD at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA on Monday 11th May 2015, at 9-10pm GMT and will discuss, 'Frontline IBD: Hot topics in IBD’.

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Professor Brian Saunders, Consultant Gastroenterologist, St. Mark’s Hospital and Adjunct Professor of Endoscopy at Imperial College. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Special #EndoLive Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 3rd March 2015, 8-9pm GMT, entitled 'Frontline Endoscopy: Polypectomy – tips, tricks and which polyps to remove endoscopically'. Prior to the debate Professor Saunders said: “Colonoscopic polypectomy has become the most commonly performed therapeutic procedure in gastroenterology practice. Used correctly it is a powerful tool in cancer prevention and can significantly reduce the morbidity from traditional surgery. Training in polypectomy is highly variable and poor technique may lead to incomplete polyp resections and the risk of interval cancers. Complete and safe polyp resection requires an understanding of basic principles of anatomy, polyp pathology, the application of diathermy and the recognition and management of complications. Although most polyps are small and easily managed with tried and tested snare techniques, larger lesions can be more challenging and potentially hazardous to remove with the endoscope. In recent years patient-centred, multidisciplinary meetings (Polyp MDT’s) have been helpful in tailoring therapeutic strategy. Options for resection include piecemeal EMR, ESD or hybrid techniques such as laparoscopically assisted polypectomy or trans-anal submucosal endoscopic resection (TASER). This Twitter debate aims to share key guidance on the approach to lesion recognition, appropriate selection and delivery of polypectomy techniques and prevention and management of polypectomy complications. A unique feature will be the opportunity to upload polyp images for discussion and debate.” The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Professor Saunders has also provided the slides he used in #FGDebate to help those interested understand the issues associated with polypectomy and polyp management. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. View the slides: http://goo.gl/hH0P10 Don't miss the next #FGDebate with Dr Simon Gabe, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Intestinal Failure Specialist at St Mark’s Hospital London on Tuesday 14th April 2015, at 8-9pm GMT and will discuss, 'Frontline Nutrition: The management of intestinal failure’.

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Professor Mark Pritchard, Professor and Head of the Department of Gastroenterology and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the University of Liverpool, UK. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 10th February 2015, 8-9pm GMT, entitled, 'Frontline Gastrointestinal NETs: The approach to diagnosis and initial management'. Prior to the debate Professor Pritchard said: 'Neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) are relatively rare, but because they are often associated with a good prognosis, they have a high prevalence. They are said to be more prevalent than stomach and exocrine pancreatic cancers combined. There is often a delay in initial diagnosis as NETs may cause similar symptoms to other more common conditions such as IBS. As many patients present with metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis, management usually requires the involvement of a multidisciplinary team of clinicians. A gastroenterologist is a crucial member of this team, as many NETs occur in the GI tract and pancreas where they are amenable to endoscopic detection, evaluation and removal. In the #FGDebate we hope to cover the endoscopic evaluation of NETs, particularly how to determine the type of a gastric NET and whether it requires treatment. We will also discuss other tests, particularly how to interpret chromogranin A blood test results and the role of the new highly sensitive and specific PET scans. There have also been several recent advances in NET management, such as clinical trial evidence to support the use of long acting somatostatin analogues to delay disease progression as well as treat the symptoms of carcinoid syndrome, the more widespread use of targeted radionuclide therapies for metastatic NETs and the development of new drugs such as gastrin/CCK-2 receptor antagonists to treat specific tumour types. Finally we hope to consider how easy it is for patients to access specialist NET teams and therefore the various investigations and treatments that may be needed for optimal management’ The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Professor Pritchard has also provided the slides he used in #FGDebate to help those interested understand the issues associated with Gastrointestinal NETs. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. View the slides: http://goo.gl/x159bU Don't miss the next #FGDebate with Professor Brian Saunders, Consultant Gastroenterologist at St Mark’s Hospital, London and Adjunct Professor of Endoscopy at Imperial College London on Tuesday 3rd March 2015, at 8-9pm GMT and will discuss, 'Frontline Endoscopy: Polypectomy – tips, tricks and which to remove endoscopically.’

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Dr Alex Ford, associate professor and honorary consultant in gastroenterologist, at Leeds University and St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 13th January 2015, 8-9pm GMT, entitled, 'Frontline Neurogastroenterology: Evidence based therapeutics in irritable bowel syndrome’. Prior to the debate Dr Ford said: 'Over the last 10 years I have been involved in clinical research into functional gastrointestinal disorders. Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are highly prevalent, and possible aetiologies range from the benign to the life-threatening, but functional causes such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are commonest. This condition affects up to 10% to 20% of the general population, and if individuals seek medical advice for these symptoms this group of patients comprises up to one in ten of those referred from primary care to gastroenterology clinics. Diagnostic symptom-based criteria for IBS exist, and a positive diagnosis is encouraged but, despite this, many individuals undergo investigation to exclude serious underlying pathology, and other management costs are substantial due to consultations and prescribed drugs. Inevitably, excessive expenditure in one disease area, such as this, has implications for the provision of resources in other, equally important, areas of health care. Greater knowledge of the natural history of IBS, why individuals consult with symptoms, whether to perform investigations to exclude potential underlying organic diseases, and which treatments are effective is needed, in order that clinicians can direct scarce resources more efficiently. Our debate will hopefully touch on some of these issues' The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Dr Ford has also provided the slides he used in #FGDebate to help those interested understand the issues associated with therapeutics in IBS. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. View the slides: http://goo.gl/dmvMzR Don't miss the next #FGDebate with Professor Mark Pritchard, professor and head of the Department of Gastroenterology and honorary consultant gastroenterologist at the University of Liverpool, on Tuesday 10th February 2015, at 8-9pm GMT. The topic is 'Frontline Gastrointestinal NETs: The approach to diagnosis and initial management'.

This is the podcast with Professor Barry Marshall and Professor Emad El-Omar to accompany the #FGDebate entitled 'Frontline Research: The highs and lows of academic life - the basics, the barriers and the breakthroughs' held on Sunday 21st December 2014. Professor Barry Marshall is a an honorary Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, University of Western Australia. Amongst his many international accolades, in 2005 Professor Marshall and Robin Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their 1982 discovery that a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, causes one of the most common and important diseases of mankind, peptic ulcer disease. This discovery was the first step in developing more effective treatments for ulcers and in understanding the causative link between H. pylori and stomach cancer. Professor Emad El-Omar is the Chair of Gastroenterology at Aberdeen University, Scotland. He is also an Honorary Consultant Physician with NHS Grampian. Amongst his many international accolades and Editorial board positions, he is the Editor in Chief of the journal Gut. His main research interests are in the role of microbially-induced inflammation in GI cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. His group has strong collaborations with national groups within the UK and international groups in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. We hope you enjoy it and wish you a Happy Christmas and New Year 2015 from all the Frontline Gastroenterology and Gut team. View the accompanying slides: http://goo.gl/2N5NrH Read the summary of the twitter debate: http://goo.gl/WWxlDC

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, honorary consultant physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and honorary chair at the University of Liverpool. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 11th November 2014 at 8-9pm GMT, entitled, 'Frontline Hepatology: alcohol - our favourite drug and everyone's problem'. Prior to the debate Sir Ian said: 'We are in the middle of an epidemic of alcohol-related diseases, of which alcoholic liver disease is a prime and crucial example. The burden of alcoholic liver disease and its complications is so great that all gastroenterologists, whatever their special interest, need to be competent to manage them. Furthermore, gastroenterologists and hepatologists seem to see, almost by default, the majority of patients in the UK admitted to hospital with alcohol-related conditions whether or not the GI tract or liver is affected, and so are the natural leaders not just in the clinical management but also in becoming advocates for evidence-based policies to reduce the burden. Public health may not be familiar territory for them, but it is an area where they can make as big a difference as on the wards. Also, by becoming champions for alcohol care teams in their hospital, they can not only make sure patients with alcohol dependence get a better outcome but also free up beds and save valuable resources. Finally, it is important that gastroenterologists have some knowledge of treatment options for alcohol dependence and the range of medications that they can prescribe. It is important to dispel the myth that treatment for alcohol dependence does not work – on the contrary it is highly cost-effective' The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Sir Ian has also provided the slides he used in #FGDebate to help those interested understand the issues associated with alcohol and its research. We hope you enjoy this and it is informative. View the slides: http://goo.gl/XQCUk1 Don't miss the next #FGDebate which is our Christmas Special debate on Sunday 21st December 2014 at 12 noon GMT by Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall and Editor in chief of GUT, Professor Emad El-Omar - "Frontline Research: The highs and lows of academic life - the basics, the barriers and the breakthroughs".

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Dr Charlie Lees, Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh and honorary senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, about Frontline IBD. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 14th October 2014 at 8-9pm GMT, entitled, 'Frontline IBD: Finding the cause of IBD – genes, bugs or diet?'. A summary of this debate can be found at: https://storify.com/FrontGastro_BMJ/frontline-ibd-finding-the-cause-of-ibd-genes-bugs Prior to the debate Dr Charlie Lees said: 'The inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, are common in the Western world affecting about 1 in 200 individuals. In recent years incidence has increased dramatically in developing countries in parallel with the adoption of a Western lifestyle. Whilst the precise aetiology of IBD remains illusive the currently held paradigm is of dysregulated immune responses to commensal gut bacteria in genetically susceptible individuals. Gene discovery in IBD has seen unparalleled success in complex diseases. Nearly 200 disease genes have been identified. These findings have started to yield fruit with important insights into disease biology. However they also demonstrate the underlying complexity of disease pathogenesis. Furthermore, they only appear to explain around one quarter of phenotypic variance – ie why an individual develops disease. Much attention has now start to focus on the role of the gut microbiota in IBD. There is clearly reduced microbial diversity in IBD patients, but it remains unknown which critical aspects of the observed dysbiosis are potentially causal or simply the effect of underlying inflammation. Moreover, the interplay between environmental factors, notably antibiotic exposure and habitual diet, underlying genetic variation and the gut microbiota are only just starting to be explored. In this Frontline Gastroenterology twitter debate we will explore these issues and discuss how present data, planned and future studies can / should address this critical question. How will we find out what causes IBD to develop? Will this knowledge help us prevent the disease from developing in high-risk individuals? Are the environmental triggers for disease onset the same as those for disease flare in patients with established disease? Will these findings bring us closer to a ‘cure’ or at least prolonged remission in those with established disease?. The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Dr Charlie Lees has also provided the slides he used in #FGDebate to help those interested understand the issues associated with IBD and IBD research. We hope you enjoy this and it is informative. View the slides: http://goo.gl/ZjMpfU Don't miss the next #FGDebate on Tuesday 11th November 2014 at 8-9pm by Prof Sir Ian Gilmore - "Frontline Hepatology: Alcohol - our favourite drug and everyone's problem".

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Dr Bjorn Rembacken, Consultant Endoscopist Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, about frontline endoscopy. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Tuesday 23rd September 2014 at 8-9pm GMT, entitled, 'Frontline Endoscopy: Colonic EMR vs ESD - which one and when?'. A summary of this debate can be found at: https://storify.com/FrontGastro_BMJ/frontline-endoscopy-colonic-emr-vs-esd-which-one Prior to the debate Dr Bjorn Rembacken said: 'It was about 10 years ago when Japanese endoscopists started to resect colonic lesions “en-bloc” by ESD. They were prompted by histopathologists who had difficulties interpreting margins. Not unlike the introduction of laparoscopic surgery, the technique has been criticised for being awkward, hazardous, expensive and time consuming. However, as it seems to be the correct direction of travel, many endoscopists outside of Japan are now beginning to have a go. In the UK, patients expect to have “keyhole surgery” as it shortens recovery considerably. Has ESD now matured sufficiently to be regarded as the best standard? In this Twitter debate, we will explore the issues, which are complicated, and has wide ranging implications for training, how histopathologists diagnose cancer and the surgical management of colorectal cancer'. The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Dr Bjorn Rembacken has also provided the slides he used in #FGDebate to help those interested understand the issues associated with these advanced endoscopy techniques. We hope you enjoy this and it is informative. View the slides: http://goo.gl/ZPSCiy Don't miss the next #FGDebate on Tuesday 14th October 2014 at 8-9pm by Dr Charlie Lees - Frontline IBD: Finding the cause of IBD - genes, bugs and diet?”

Frontline Gastroenterology (FG) aims to accelerate the adoption of best practice in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology. It is multidisciplinary and focuses on the needs of patients and the professionals caring for them.In this podcast FG’s founding editor, Dr Roland Valori, explains how the journal came about. We also hear from 2 leading gastroenterologists who appeared at the international gastroenterology conference, Gastro 2009.

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology, Mark Beattie. You can read here: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/6/449. The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/6 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Dr Philip Smith, Social Media and Associate Editor of FG and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital interviews Dr Gaurav Nigam who is an Academic clinical fellow in Gastroenterology in Oxford Deanery, UK. This podcast is focused on the paper "Curriculum review : investigation and management of dysphagia" published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in August 2021 - https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2021/08/02/flgastro-2021-101917

This podcast is focused on the paper "Anorexia nervosa and the gastrointestinal tract”, published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in August 2021. Dr Philip Smith, Social Media and Associate Editor of FG and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital interviews Dr Wisam Jafar, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Nutrition Lead at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK. Read the paper: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2021/08/19/flgastro-2021-101857

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the September 2021 issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/5/359 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/5 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Dr Philip Smith, Social Media and Associate Editor of FG and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews members of the UK ‘Green Endoscopy’ group, Dr James Maurice, Hepatology registrar at St Mary's Hospital in London, Dr William Stableforth, Hepatologist and Gastroenterologist at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, and Dr Bu Hayee Consultant Gastroenterologist, King’s College Hospital, London. This podcast focuses on the groups' work to date and the paper 'Green endoscopy: using quality improvement to develop sustainable practice' which was published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in 2021. Related article: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2021/06/07/flgastro-2021-101874

This month Dr Sunny Raju is joined by the fantastic Dr Jenny Epstein, a leading paediatric gastroenterologist and paediatric endoscopist, based in West London to learn about recent advances and how to practically manage Eosinophilic oesophagitis. Read the full article at https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2020/09/06/flgastro-2019-101313 now.

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the July issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/4/261 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/4 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Associate editor Dr James Maurice discusses current developments in our understanding of the Gut Microbiome in GI disease pathophysiology with Dr Ben Mullish, following his recent paper in the March 2021 issue 'The Gut Microbiome: what every gastroenterologist needs to know.' https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/2/118 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Dr Philip Smith, Associate and Social Media Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, UK, interviews Dr Nick Thompson, who is a Consultant Gastroenterologist in the Department of Gastroenterology, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Thompson has helped develop Newcastle as a regional centre for parenteral nutrition support and the hospital was recently designated as one of the Integrated Intestinal Failure Centres in England. Dr Thompson is the senior author on the guidance document "British Intestinal Failure Alliance (BIFA) guidance - haematological and biochemical monitoring of adult patients receiving home parenteral nutrition". Read the paper: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2021/02/16/flgastro-2020-101758

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the May issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/3/167 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/3 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Associate editor Dr James Maurice interviews Dr Srivathsan Ravindran, JAG research fellow at St Marks Hospital, London. They talk about developing a culture of improving patient safety in endoscopy, and how the 'Case of the Month' model can be used to create valuable learning opportunities for endoscopy teams following patient safety incidents. Read the review on the Frontline Gastroenterology website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2020/10/09/flgastro-2020-101600 Related links: https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/2/160 https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2020/08/19/flgastro-2020-101561 https://www.thejag.org.uk/CMS/Page.aspx?PageId=207

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the March issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/2/85 The full issue is now online: fg.bmj.com/content/12/2 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Dr James Maurice interviews Dr Dhiraj Tripathi, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, about the UK Adult Liver Transplantation guidelines recently published in Frontline Gastroenterology. In this second episode, they discuss recent developments in organ allocation and utilisation and post-transplant care. Read the related paper on the FG website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/5/385 In the first part of this podcast - https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/liver-transplantation-guidelines-part-1-pre-operation?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/frontline-gastroenterology - there's a general overview of liver transplantation in the UK, followed by the selection and workup of potential liver transplant recipients. Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

In this double-episode, Dr James Maurice interviews Dr Dhiraj Tripathi, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, about the UK Adult Liver Transplantation guidelines recently published in Frontline Gastroenterology. In the first part, they discuss a general overview of liver transplantation in the UK, followed by the selection and workup of potential liver transplant recipients. Look out for the second part in the next few days. The conversation moves on to recent developments in organ allocation and utilisation, and post-transplant care. Read the related paper on the FG website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/5/375 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Dr Philip Smith, Associate Editor and Social Media Editor of FG and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, is joined in conversation with Professor Mark Beattie, Editor in Chief of FG and Professor of Paediatric Gastroenterology at Southampton Children’s Hospital in Southampton, and Dr James Maurice, Associate editor and former trainee editor of FG and Senior Hepatology Fellow at King’s College Hospital, London, to discuss the 'Best Frontline Gastroenterology papers of 2020'.  The papers are listed below with links:  Consensus standards of healthcare for adults and children with inflammatory bowel disease in the UK https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/3/178  British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)-led multisociety consensus care bundle for the early clinical management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/4/311  Adult liver transplantation: A UK clinical guideline - part 1: pre-operation https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/5/375  Adult liver transplantation: UK clinical guideline - part 2: surgery and post-operation https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/5/385  Diagnostic ileocolonoscopy: getting the basics right https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/6/484  Rational investigations in irritable bowel syndrome https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/2/140  Medical liver biopsy: background, indications, procedure and histopathology https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/1/40  Neuroendocrine tumours: what gastroenterologists need to know https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2020/09/22/flgastro-2020-101431  Practical guide to the management of chronic pancreatitis https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/3/253

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the December issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/1/1 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/1 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the November issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/6/423 The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/6 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Dr Philip Smith, Associate Editor and Social Media Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, UK, interviews Dr Mohid Khan, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Lead of the Wales NET Service in Cardiff, Wales, UK. The podcast is focussed on the paper "Neuroendocrine Tumours – What Gastroenterologists Need to Know" published in Frontline Gastroenterology in September 2020. It can be found here: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2020/09/22/flgastro-2020-101431

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the September issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/5/339 The full issue is now also online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/5 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Jejunal feeding decisions can be complex in individuals with no clear structural abnormality. Dr Sunny Raju is joined by Dr Peter Paine, consultant gastroenterologist at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, to get his thoughts on the matter. Read the full article at https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/5/397

From specific management issues to medicines, psychotherapy, diet, and exercise. This is an extended podcast about every aspect of IBS for health care professionals. Jonathan Segal, trainee editor at Frontline Gastroenterology, is joined by Professor Alex Ford and Dr Chris Black to discuss their recent paper “Best management irritable bowel syndrome” - fg.bmj.com/content/early/2020/…lgastro-2019-101298 This is the link for the mentioned review "Rational investigations in irritable bowel syndrome" - fg.bmj.com/content/11/2/140 Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. Read the UpFront of the July issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/4/255 The full issue is now also online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/4

Dr Philip Smith, Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology, and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool interviews Dr Cathryn Edwards, BSG President and Consultant Gastroenterologist, Torbay Hospital, Torbay, Devon and Dr Ian Penman, BSG Vice President Endoscopy and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, on the BSG guidance entitled "Recommencing gastrointestinal endoscopy in the deceleration and early recovery phases of COVID-19 pandemic". Read the related articles: - https://www.bsg.org.uk/covid-19-advice/bsg-guidance-on-recommencing-gi-endoscopy-in-the-deceleration-early-recovery-phases-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/ - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/flgastro-2020-101492 Acknowledgements: Huge thanks go to Dr Ian Penman BSG VP Endoscopy; Professor Colin Rees and the BSG Endoscopy Quality Improvement Group; the BSG Endoscopy Section; the BSGNA; and the BSG Executive and its President, Dr Cathryn Edwards

Trainee editor of Frontline Gastroenterology, James Maurice, interviews Hazel Woodland (University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust) and Ben Hudson (Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust) on their recent publication in Frontline 'Palliative care in liver disease: what does good look like?" - https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/3/218.

Dr Vincent Cheung (Translational Gastroenterology Unit and NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, UK) discusses his recent paper 'Immunotherapy-related hepatitis: real-world experience from a tertiary centre' published in Frontline Gastroenterology. For more information, please read: https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/4/364

Frontline Gastroenterology's Editor-in-Chief Mark Beattie talks to Amritpal Dhaliwal (Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, UK) about the importance of pathophysiology and management of Nutrition in Cirrhosis including discussion about what the clinical relevance of Sarcopenia in liver disease, how to assess it and how to best manage it. This podcast accompanies her recently published paper Nutrition in liver cirrhosis: a case based overview https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/2/155

The highlights of this edition brought to you by the Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie. They include Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Liver Disease, Parenteral Nutrition and Eye signs in GI disease. Read the UpFront of the March issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/2/83 The full issue is now also online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/2.

Dr Philip Smith discusses the new UK IBD Standards, recently published in Frontline Gastroenterology, with first author of the standards, Rukshana Kapasi, Chair of IBDUK and Director of Health Service Development at Crohn's and Colitis UK. Read the paper: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2019/07/19/flgastro-2019-101260

Mark Beattie discusses with Ashley Bond (Intestinal Failure Unit, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust) his recent review published in the Frontline Gastroenterology journal, “Diagnosis and management of catheter-related bloodstream infections in patients on home parenteral nutrition” available here; https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/1/48.

This edition covers Eosinophilic Oesophagitis, Catheter-related bloodstream infections and acute liver failure. Part of the January 2020 issue is also dedicated to inflammatory bowel disease, including monoclonal antibody therapy as well as antibiotics and probiotics Read the UpFront of the January issue of Frontline Gastroenterology and the full issue: fg.bmj.com/content/11/1.

Chronic pancreatitis is an irreversible fibroinflammatory disorder of the pancreas. It develops due to multiple causes, the most common of which is alcohol. In this podcast, Trainee Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology Suneil Raju and Professor Andrew Hopper, Gastroenterology and Liver Unit, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, UK, discuss a practical guide to the management of chronic pancreatitis and how a clear diagnosis is vital for ongoing care with early multidisciplinary input to help guide treatment and manage complications. Read the full article: fg.bmj.com/content/10/3/253.

Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Gastroenterology Mark Beattie talks to Professor Alexander Ford, Leeds Gastroenterology Institute, St. James's University Hospital, UK, about irritable bowel syndrome. IBS is a common chronic functional gastrointestinal disorder, with an estimated population prevalence of 10%, which more commonly affects women and younger individuals. Listen to the conversation and read the related paper: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2019/06/06/flgastro-2019-101211

This edition has a special focus on the practical management of polyposis syndromes. The highlights of the October issue of Frontline Gastroenterology also include infliximab, chronic diarrhoea in the elderly and gastroenterology training in the UK. Read the UpFront of the July issue of Frontline Gastroenterology and the full issue: fg.bmj.com/content/10/4. The UpFront is available here: https://fg.bmj.com/content/10/4/325.

Trainnee Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology Suneil Raju discusses with Professor Andreas Münch, (Faculty of Health Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden) the recognition, assessment, diagnosis and management of Microscopic Colitis. Read the full article: https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2019/07/05/flgastro-2019-101227