Dr Simon Whiteoak

Consultant Gastroenterologist

Specialties

Gastroenterology
General Medicine

BM, MRCP (UK), PhD

What people can be referred for

Inflammatory Bowel Disease
General Gastroenterology
Nutritional problems

Why I chose my specialties

Gastroenterology gives me a wide and varied job, and I enjoy the management of patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease and forming a long term partnership with them.

Primary contact

Secretary: Karen Karakas

01202 704961

Membership of professional bodies

RCP
GMC
MPS
BSG
ECCO

Year of registration

2018, GMC registration 2004

Special clinical interests

Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Complex Nutrition
Endoscopy

Publications

MicroRNA-31 Targets Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin in Mucosal Infiltrated CD4+ T Cells: A Role in Achieving Mucosal Healing in Ulcerative Colitis?
Simon Whiteoak, Andrew Claridge, Clare Balendran, Richard Harris, Markus Gwiggner, Victor Bodanese, Mark Hanssen, Tilman Sanchez-Elsner, JR Fraser Cummings
Inflamm Bowel Dis. Jun 8 2018, doi: 10.1093/ibd/izy213.

MicroRNA 31 and MicroRNA 155 Target Interleukin 13 Receptor Alpha 1 (IL13RA1) and Regulate IL-13 Dependent Inflammatory Pathways in Ulcerative Colitis
Markus Gwiggner, Rocio Teresa Martinez-Nunez, Simon R Whiteoak, Andy Claridge, Jane E Collins, JR Fraser Cummings, and Tilman Sanchez-Elsner
Genes, Feb 2018, 13;9(2)

Biosimilar infliximab in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Outcomes of a managed switching program
Violeta Razanskaite, Marion Bettey, Louise Downey, Simon Whiteoak, James Callaghan, Julia Wright, Caren Underhill, Miles Rush, Iftikhar Ahmed, Fraser Cummings.
Journal of Crohns and Colitis. 2017 Jan;11(1):Epub

MicroRNAs in IBD; paradoxes and possibilities
Simon Whiteoak, Richard Felwick, Tilman Sanchez-Elsner, JR Fraser Cummings
Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2015 May;21(5):1160-5

Perforated colonic diverticulum in old age: surgical or medical management?
Simon Whiteoak, Omar Khan, Stephen Allen
Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2009 Dec;70(12):699-703. Review.

Outcome data

Clinical trials PI in Royal Bournemouth Hospital

Research

Basic Science research into epigenetics of IBD at University of Southampton