About Dominic Blunt
Dr Dominic Blunt is a Consultant Radiologist specialising in gastrointestinal and abdominopelvic imaging.
He was the lead for GI imaging within Imperial NHS Trust for many years and built the team.
Dominic has a keen interest in the training of junior radiologists and ran the largest training program in London for many years.
He is a Fellow of the European Society of GI radiology and has been an invited speaker at many national and international courses, as well as an active member of the British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology.
He worked on committees for the Royal College of Radiologists in assessing candidates for specialist registration in the UK and on Professional Standards; contributing to policies defining radiology good practice. Honoured with an Outstanding Contribution Award by his Royal College in recognition for his training and College work.
His current research interests involve techniques for assessing the gut microbiome supporting Imperial College metabolic medicine academics.
Personal Biography
After graduating in London Dominic trained in general medical specialities for 4 years passing the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians.
After core radiology training in London he transferred to Leeds for sub-speciality fellowship training in gastrointestinal imaging at the Leeds General Infirmary and St James’ University Hospital where he was part of the research team involved in rectal cancer imaging and MRI: the era this was first becoming the gold standard for treatment planning
After consultant posts in Christchurch, New Zealand and a return to the UK working at The Royal Free Hospital and The Royal Marsden he was appointed to his current Consultant post in 2000.
He set up and led services in Imperial NHS trust for almost all emerging modalities of gastrointestinal imaging, including pelvic and small intestinal MRI scanning, and CT colonography.
He reviews papers for national and international journals and regularly contributes to Colorectal, Upper GI, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Complex Swallowing, Abdominal wall and acute surgery multidisciplinary meetings.
Expertise
- Gastrointestinal CT
- Abdominopelvic ultrasound
- GI/HPB MRI
- Ultrasound
- CT
- and MRI of Abdominopelvic Disease
- Colorectal Cancer
- CT Colonography
- Fluoroscopic Studies: Swallowing and upper GI motility assessments
Overview
- Age of patients seen
- 18+
- Languages spoken
- English
- Research highlights
Currently involved in research projects investigating gut microbiome and its relationship to gut absorption and hunger mechanisms, as well as radiology lead for numerous national and international cancer trial studies which use imaging to monitor treatment and contributes to multi-site imaging research.
Chair of the Equivalence Committee of the Royal College of Radiologists RCR 2015
Chair of the Radiology CPG for the NHS Bowel cancer screening program since 2015
- Professional memberships
British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology
European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology
Bowel Cancer Screening Program – Radiology Group
Royal College of Radiologists
Royal College of Physicians
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