Dr Venkataswamy Mahesh (Venkat Mahesh)

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Training and experience

Dr Venkat Mahesh graduated in medicine from Bangalore University in 2000. He then spent 12 years in specialist training in the UK, initially in General Internal Medicine and later in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. During this time, he worked in a range of hospital settings, from liver transplant tertiary teaching hospitals to district general hospitals, providing him with a broad knowledge and experience of his field. He completed his training with an Advanced Interventional Endoscopy fellowship at Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia and advanced nutrition training on the Intestinal Failure Unit in Salford, UK.

Dr Mahesh was appointed as a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Blackpool Victoria Hospital in 2012 and then moved to Royal Blackburn Hospital in 2019. He is the lead clinician for Endoscopy and nutritional related issues at the hospital, as well as being a lead provider of advanced endoscopy services including diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, dilation, EMR, stent placement, feeding tube insertion, Endoscopic Ultrasound and ERCP etc., at East Lancashire NHS Trust and lead therapeutic endoscopy provider for Lancashire and South Cumbria Cancer Network.

Actively involved in teaching, Dr Mahesh is Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Buckingham University and provides talks to GPs on general gastroenterology, liver and nutritional issues. Nationally, he is a Medical Performance Assessor for the General Medical Council, Media and Education Co-ordinator for the UK and Ireland Endoscopic Ultrasound Society and National QI Lead for Endoscopic Ultrasound for the British Society of Gastroenterology/Joint Advisory Committee. He actively promotes GI conditions management via social media and his websites.