Dr. Stephen Attwood

Stephen E. Attwood is honorary professor in health services research at Durham University, UK, and an independent consulting advisor on research and clinical practice for oesophageal diseases. He qualified from Trinity College Dublin and took his Surgical Fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Most recently, he was a consultant surgeon at Northumbria Healthcare UK. Since identifying Eosinophilic Oesophagitis (EoE) in 1989 and publishing the first description of the disease in 1992, Professor Attwood has spent his career caring for patients with EoE. He has been actively engaged in clinical trials of upper gastrointestinal diseases, including budesonide formulations for EoE; the ASPECT trial of cancer prevention in Barrett’s esophagus; BEST3, a study of Cytosponge screening for Barrett’s esophagus in general practices; the LOTUS trial (surgery vs proton pump inhibitor for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease). He has authored more than 200 publications, including the recent British Society of Gastroenterology Guidelines on EoE.