Dr Graham Turner works as a Consultant Gastroenterologist in Belfast at both the Royal Victoria and Belfast City Hospitals. He is Clinical Lead for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy at the Trust. He has been a consultant since 2006 initially in Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry but moved to Belfast in 2009 where he is part of the Regional Intestinal Failure team for Northern Ireland. Graham qualified from Queen’s University Belfast in 1996 and completed his training in Northern Ireland and was awarded an MD degree at QUB in 2004. He has completed Fellowships in Perth Australia and then at University College Hospital in London with Prof Alastair Forbes. His clinical interests are Intestinal Failure, Inflammatory Bowel disease and endoscopy including Bowel Cancer Screening.

Karen graduated with an honours degree from the School of Medicine at RCSI in 2007 and is currently appointed as a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Beaumont Hospital with an interest in inflammatory bowel disease and clinical nutrition. She completed an advanced fellowship in microbiome analysis, diet analysis and inflammatory bowel disease at Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto. Her current research interests include therapeutic drug monitoring in IBD, microbiome analysis and the impact of diet and exercise programmes on outcomes in moderate to severe IBD. Karen is a member of the board of IRSPEN and chair of their Scientific Committee.