Congratulations to Dr Nuru Noor; successful candidate of the Barbers'  Company Award for Trainees in Gastroenterology 2024.

The BSG and Barbers' Company is pleased to extend its congratulations to Dr Nuru Noor on receiving The Barbers’ Company Award 2024 for Trainees in Gastroenterology.
Dr Noor is a specialist trainee in Gastroenterology based in Cambridge with a particular clinical and academic interest in improving the quality of care and outcomes for people living with inflammatory bowel diseases. He is keen to develop further clinical skills and become certified in ultrasound, so that he can deliver this as a point of care to patients locally.

Dr Noor intends to undertake formal training in Intestinal Bowel Ultrasound (IBUS) for patients with bowel disorders. He has already completed modules 1 and 3 of the international IBUS group accreditation programme for bowel ultrasound training. Dr Noor says the award will enable him to complete the final module which requires hands-on training at an internationally certified training centre. He has identified a training centre in Lisbon, Portugal, where he will have an opportunity to work with world-renowned gastroenterology/IBD specialists. As a result of this training opportunity, Dr Noor hopes to work closely with his local clinical gastroenterology and radiology teams to allow expansion of the service and particularly to develop a novel point-of-care IBUS service. He adds that he would contribute to implementation and quality improvement projects for bowel ultrasound provision, both regionally and nationally. In addition, Dr Noor intends to support future trainees, and other members of the multidisciplinary team, who might wish to train and accredit in bowel ultrasound in the future - with significant expansion in these services and improved outcomes for patients being anticipated.

The Barbers’ Company Award for Trainees in Gastroenterology is an annual BSG award; introduced in 2021, and has been established by the Barber’s Company in memory of Sir Francis Avery Jones, past Master of the Barbers’ Company and past President of the BSG. The purpose of the award is to help provide a UK trainee in gastroenterology or hepatology with an opportunity to gain training that would not otherwise be available as part of his/her training programme, or to develop a clinical service that will benefit patients.