She qualified from Guy’s and St Thomas’ University Hospital Medical School in 1998. After general medical training she was appointed as a Gastroenterology Specialist Registrar in the Wessex region in 2003, and was awarded a PhD from Portsmouth University for the clinical research she undertook during her training. She gained substantial sub-specialist experience in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and completed an Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship at St Mark’s Hospital before being appointed as a Consultant at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals in 2012.
At Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust she has a weekly Complex Inflammatory Bowel Disease clinic, leads the Significant Polyp and Early Cancer (SPEC) service and chairs the weekly SPEC multi-disciplinary meeting. She also leads the capsule endoscopy, colorectal cancer family history and the post-cancer treatment services
On a personal, she is a mum of two and enjoys music, reading, yoga and most outdoor activities including running, kitesurfing and more recently wing foiling.