Professor Shan Rajendra

Professor Rajendra obtained his undergraduate medical degree from the National

University of Ireland in 1988 and worked in the National Health Service, UK for 6 years.

After a South-East Thames Gastroenterology and General Medicine career registrar

rotation (Guy’s/Lewisham/Hither Green), he became a Research Fellow in the Digestive

Diseases Research Centre, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, London. He is

currently Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology), University of New South Wales,

Senior Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist/Interventional Endoscopist and Head of

Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Bankstown Hospital, Sydney. He specializes in

advanced therapeutic upper GI endoscopy, colonoscopy including removal of large

polyps and undertaking complicated bile/pancreatic duct procedures (ERCP). Also,

undertakes balloon enteroscopy and capsule endoscopy.

His main research interest is gastro-esophageal reflux disease and Barrett’s oesophagus

and has well over 50 publications as first or last author in high impact factor journals. His

research has been featured in the Lancet Oncology and Medscape. Until recently, he was

a WEB committee member of the International Society of Diseases of the Oesophagus

(ISDE) as well as an Associate Editor of its official publication, Diseases of the

Esophagus. Having worked briefly in South-East Asia, he developed an interest in

treating gut infections. He has published on tropical sprue, a condition not dissimilar to

small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) or gut dysbiosis, both conditions being

frequently misdiagnosed as Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Prof Rajendra is the Founding Director and Lead Investigator of the Gastro-Intestinal

Viral Oncology Group, Ingham Institute, Liverpool, Sydney. This was the first group in

the world to discover that high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) is strongly associated

with Barrett’s dysplasia and oesophageal adenocarcinoma. He is the world authority on

human papilloma virus infection in Barrett’s oesophagus and oesophageal

adenocarcinoma and his research has been featured in extensively in both the national

(ABC, Sydney Morning Herald, Health Report with Dr. Norman Swan, Sydney Morning

Herald, The Daily Telegraph, news.com.au) and international media (The Times of India,

The Sun, NZ Herald). This research is also cited in UpToDate, the most popular

mainstream point of care medical resource for medical practitioners throughout the

world.