GRANT Network
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GRANT (Gastroenterology Research and Audit through Northern Trainees) is a trainee-led collaboration delivering regional projects in the Northern deanery
By three months your baby should be: 1) Lifting their head during tummy time 2) Developing specific research interests Support them by attending events like these! @colospeedstudy @bowelcanceruk @ellie_r_hackney @dr_sarahmanning #bowelcancerawarenessweek
🎖 Well done to Dr Eleanor Hackney, winner of The Alistair McIntyre Prize for Improving #Gastroenterology Training! A standout commitment to better training #BSGLIVE25 @BSGtrainees
Introducing this year’s prize winners… 🥈Runner up: Dr Agatha Chu for her project on blood test monitoring in upadacitinib 🥇First prize: Dr Laura Checkett with her work on standardising HCC ultrasound surveillance and integration of US LI-RADS into clinical practice
This year’s GRANT symposium was a great success! We had brilliant talks from Prof John Leeds @NEndoscopy and Dr Keith Pohl @KeithPohl7, followed by six fantastic presentations by trainees in our region who have completed excellent projects!
Thank you Prof Leeds for a brilliant talk and for your support of GRANT!
Fun afternoon with the @grantnetworkorg discussing research promotion through the training network. Talk by @KeithPohl7 about research in endoscopy. Great abstracts and well done Drs Checkitt and Chu for winning the best abstracts.
🏆#BSGLive2025 - Award For Dr Eleanor Hackney🏆 Congrats to #ColoCohort researcher Ellie for winning the Alistair McIntyre Prize for "EmPath" - a project she co-created to empower endoscopy trainees in recognising & managing Upper GI pathology via targeted study days. @RI_STSFT
Another brilliant @NorthernETA EmPath pathology day held @NorthumbriaDASH today. Fantastic to be part of this multidisciplinary programme centred around upper GI pathology recognition and management
Call for abstracts! We are looking for NE trainees/allied professionals who have completed research or audits in gastro recently! Get in touch for the opportunity to present them in a friendly, supportive environment and the potential to role your project out across the region!
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Another fantastic @NorthernETA EmPath day yesterday - EMpowering endoscopy trainees in PATHology recognition and management held at North Tees University Hospital @frasercbrown
jetsapp.thejag.org.uk/courses/JAG_CR… TCT Course at University Hospital Hartlepool 5-6 February. Places still available. Come and learn how to teach colleagues to do Colonoscopy.
🚨UK Gastro/Hep trainee research networks 🚨 You can now submit your research to @FrontGastro_BMJ and apply to the @BritSocGastro to have the open access fees waived 🙌 Thanks to all who helped facilitate this! @BSGTrainees @ResearchBsg @PhilSmithIsBack @DebbieShawcros1
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NE Gastro SpR and GRANT member, Dr Rebecca Bragg, presented our regional project ‘A Multicentre Evaluation of FIT Results in Colorectal Cancer’ at UEGW in Vienna this week. Well done Bex! #UEGWeek
This is a useful trainees meeting to attend - for all ST4-5 GI trainees to help you decide your career path. @grantnetworkorg @NREGresearch 👇👇
The sub-speciality struggle is real! We know! Join us to explore some of these areas at the BSG trainee virtual education course 24th/25th Oct. Only £15 for BSG members with on demand content available afterwards too. Bargain! bsg.org.uk/Events/Trainee…
Congratulations to our symposium prize winners! 🥇Dr Emily Dobb: Variceal screening audit 🥈Dr Alexandra Hickey & Dr Fatima Abdelsalam: Improving awareness of the decompensated cirrhosis discharge bundle QIP Two great projects that we would love to roll out through GRANT!
Three more fantastic projects from Dr Rebecca Renji & Dr Ayman Mohamed, Dr Alexandra Hickey & Dr Fatima Abdelsalam and Dr Abdul Aleem. (Featuring our chairs for this session, and GRANT committee members, Dr Ellie Hackney @ellie_r_hackney and Dr Chao Dong @drchaodong)
The highlight of the symposium was hearing about all the wonderful grass-roots projects that trainees are delivering all over the region! Here are Dr Rebecca Bragg, Dr Conor McGreevy @cjmcgreevy, Dr Emily Dobb and Dr Anna Critchley presenting their work.
