European Inflammatory Bowel Disease Faculty

Professor Derek Jewell, Chairman

Derek Jewell graduated in medicine from the University of Oxford in 1966.  After training in general internal medicine in Oxford and Hammersmith Hospital, London, he returned to Oxford to train in gastroenterology under Dr Sidney Truelove.

During that time he became interested in the therapeutic and immunological aspects of IBD and was awarded the degree of DPhil for research into the role of dietary antigens and of immune complexes in the pathogenesis of these diseases.  He spent over a year in the gastroenterology division at Stanford University and then took up the post of Senior Lecturer in medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London.  Following Dr Truelove's retirement, he returned to Oxford and was subsequently appointed as Professor of Gastroenterology.

He has continued to research the pathogenesis of IBD, especially the genetic associations, and has been involved in many clinical trials.  He became President of the British Society of Gastroenterology in 1999.  He has published over 300 original papers and has been a member of many editorial boards.

He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Ceylon College of Physicians is 2004.  In 2007, he was the recipient of a Mentorship Award from the American Gastroenterological Association.  He is currently President of the Oxford Medical Alumni.