Dr. Charlie Lees
Physician/Professor, Edinburgh Gastroenterology
Charlie is Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Edinburgh, a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow and Consultant Gastroenterologist in the Edinburgh IBD Unit.
Charlie’s core mission is to improve outcomes for people living with IBD.
His team are working on predicting outcomes in IBD, using routinely collected NHS data and dedicated multi-modal prospective cohorts to build predictive models.
He is Chief Investigator of the PREdiCCt study, which has recruited 2650 patients in clinical remission with detailed baseline phenotyping (clinical, psycho-social, lifestyle, environmental, dietary, microbiome and genomics) and longitudinal follow-up.
Charlie is a passionate educator lecturing widely to healthcare providers globally and direct to patients about the current and future management and causes and consequences of IBD.
He is a global digital opinion leader, running the Atomic IBD newsletter, a social blog, a YouTube channel and the leading global twitter account on IBD.
Prof Lees has published widely (135 papers on IBD on PubMed) with a current H-index of 54.
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• Atomic IBD newsletter https://charlielees.substack.c...
• Atomic IBD social blog https://typeshare.co/charliele...
• YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UC...
• Website https://charlielees.com/
Dr Lees email: lees@edinburghgastroenterology.com