Dr Sheldon CooperConsultant Gastroenterologist
Dr Sheldon Cooper is a consultant gastroenterologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) and the Birmingham and Black Country Intestinal Failure lead physician.
He is also an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham. His Master’s degree in Nutritional Medicine was undertaken with the University of Surrey and Doctoral thesis examining the causes of oesophageal cancer at the University of Birmingham.
He became a consultant in 2009, leading the home parenteral nutrition and intestinal failure services at the Dudley Group of Hospitals, and in 2014/5 moving and further developing the UHB Intestinal Failure Services, now an NHSE Commissioned Severe Intestinal Failure Unit.
Current research interests include vitamin D and inflammatory bowel disease, sarcopenia notably in Crohn’s disease and in intestinal failure, and examining aspects of clinical care in intestinal failure.
Dr Cooper is the Honorary Treasurer and a Trustee for BAPEN, previously sitting on Council 2010-16, previous chair of the Education and Training committee for three years, and past chair of the doctors core group, BAPEN Medical. He is also a registered nutritionist and Fellow of the Association for Nutrition.
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham |
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| Secretary: | Sharifah Laboos |
| Secretary telephone: | 0121 371 5909 |
| Secretary email: | Sharifah.Laboos@uhb.nhs.uk |