Consultant Gastroenterologist & Honorary Professor
Biography:
| Professor Gaya is a consultant gastroenterologist at Glasgow Royal Infirmary since 2007 and honorary professor at University of Glasgow since 2023. He graduated from the University of Glasgow Medical School in 1998 MB ChB with honours. He has received comprehensive training in acute and general medicine, gastroenterology, liver disease and therapeutic endoscopy. He has undertaken training periods in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh. In 2007 he was awarded a Travelling Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG), to visit the Gastroenterology Unit at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. He was awarded his Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 2008. In addition to many publications in peer reviewed medical and gastroenterology journals, Professor Gaya has written several chapters for medical textbooks and recently wrote the IBD chapters for the Oxford Handbook of Colorectal Surgery. He is also on the editorial board of the World Journal of Gastroenterology. Professor Gaya undertook laboratory-based research in Edinburgh in 2005 into the pathogenesis of IBD and was awarded an MSc degree from the resulting thesis. In 2013, Dr Gaya was awarded a three year research fellowship from the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Government to undertake a comprehensive IBD research programme in the West of Scotland. Over the last ten years, Dr Gaya has presented his research work at numerous national and international gastroenterology meetings. In 2018, Professor Gaya was a awarded a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree for his research at University of Glasgow. Professor Gaya has a major interest in diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower GI endoscopy. He sees patients with peptic ulcer disease and reflux and performs wireless Bravo pH studies for the investigation of the latter. Furthermore, he is a certified colonoscopy trainer and undertakes therapeutic colonoscopy (polyp removal) as part of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. Professor Gaya is a member of the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Area Drug and Therapeutics Committee (ADTC) and a gastroenterology advisor to the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC). Professor Gaya's sub-specialist interest is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and he receives tertiary referrals for the management of complex cases. He set up the transition clinic for adolescents with IBD with colleagues at the Royal Hospital for Children. Professor Gaya is board member of the Scottish IBD charity C³. Over the last 20 years, Professor Gaya has been frequently instructed as an expert witness in medicolegal cases in by both pursuers and defenders. | |
Clinical Interests:
Medicolegal Experience:
20 years of medicolegal experience
Pursuer : defender 70 : 30
Attends medicolegal CPD upskilling regularly
Professional Memberships:
British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)
Scottish Society of Gastroenterology (SSG)
British Medical Association (BMA)
European Crohn's & Colitis Organisation (ECCO)
