SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2026
10:40am – 11:20am

IBD

KEYNOTE #1
Fatigue in IBD: How to investigate and how to treat?  

(VIRTUAL PRESENTATION)
 

Speaker:
Dr. Ailsa Hart, BA (Hons), BMBCh, FRCP, PhD

Ailsa Hart is Consultant Gastroenterologist at St Mark’s Hospital and Past Dean of St Mark’s Hospital Academic Institute. In 2016, she achieved academic promotion at Imperial College London, UK, and is now Professor of Practice, making her among the youngest females to achieve this award at Imperial College. She is also Honorary Skou Professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. She studied medicine at Oxford University and was awarded a First-Class Honours Degree. She achieved her PhD with Imperial College London, funded by a Wellcome Trust Fellowship. She has mentored and trained many gastroenterologists, who are now clinical investigators engaged in IBD research nationally and internationally. Together with many of them, she has published 2 books and over 350 papers, reviews and book chapters. She was on the Governing Board of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) as Scientific Officer, Treasurer and was member of the Clinical Committee of ECCO. She has contributed to the IBD Clinical Research Group Committee for the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and is past Chair of the Gut Microbiota for Health Group of the BSG. She is the UK Patient and Public Involvement Lead for Gastroenterology and is on the Research Committee for the Crohn’s and Colitis UK charity. She is a member of the International Organization for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IOIBD).