Adrian J. Stanley

After graduating from Edinburgh in 1988, Prof Stanley trained in Edinburgh, New Zealand, Australia and London, and completed his MD thesis in 1998. He was appointed Consultant Gastroenterologist at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1999 and Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow in 2018. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers and several book chapters to date, mostly in the fields of GI bleeding and Hepatology, and has co-authored several national and international guidelines. He is Director of the annual Glasgow-Gastro Conference and is on the organising committee of several other major annual educational meetings. Prof Stanley was appointed Vice-President (Medical) of the Royal College of the Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2019. A founder member of the BSG International committee, he is heavily involved in a Gastroenterology training project in Malawi (2012-present). He has been elected to several BSG committees and was appointed Senior Secretary of the BSG in 2021 and as such, he organises the annual BSG meetings.