Dr. Mike Mendall

Dr. Mike Mendall is a senior experienced gastroenterologist in practice for nearly 20 years.

I qualified from Cambridge University in 1982 and the Middlesex Hospital in 1985 which distinction.

My specialist gastroenterology training was undertaken at Guy's and St George's Hospitals.

I was appointed Consultant Gastroenterologist at Croydon University Hospital in 1995.

I was elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in 1998.

I am Head of Service for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy at Croydon University Hospital which serves a large and needy population.

I am a recognised trainer in gastroenterology and endoscopy and an active researcher with more than 80 peer reviewed publications.

I sit on a number of national committees covering gastroenterology and upper gastro-intestinal cancer.

I currently head the Gastroenterology Service and the Endoscopy Unit at Croydon University Hospital.

The Endoscopy Unit is the busiest in the South West London area, currently performing some 11,000 procedures per year.

I lead the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Service which consists of 2 other gastroenterologists, 2 colorectal surgeons and a nurse specialist.

I was one of the founders of the south west London emergency endoscopy network which covers a population of 1.2 million across Wimbledon, Merton and Sutton and Croydon. I chaired and founded the managing committee for this service for 8 years until 2010.

I run a busy clinical service seeing 3000 new outpatients per year together with another 500 specialist gastroenterology inpatients. I have approximately 700 patients with inflammatory bowel disease under my care.

I have performed more than 15,000 upper GI endoscopies, more than 10,000 colonoscopies with a 98% caecal intubation rate and no perforations within the last 5 years, 3,000 ERCP with a success rate of 97% and no procedure-related deaths in elective(non-emergency) patients within the last 10 years, 400 oesophageal and duodenal stenting procedures, 150 video-capsule endoscopies over 5 years, 250 of the new tubeless Bravo pH monitoring procedures.