Enjoying day 3 of #DDW2024

I will be adopting a similar strategy from now on.

Many is us struggle to say “no” but this often leads to overwhelm and burnout.

No is a complete sentence. And is actually a yes to something else.

Protect your time - it is your most precious resource.

Receiving the Bengt Ihre medal from Mattia Soop in Linkoping last week

A huge honour to deliver the prestigious opening lecture at the Swedish Society of Gastroenterology

‘The impact of diet, environment and microbiota on IBD”

In the coming days, I will record and upload this

English and Scottish experts not very convinced by the new delivery device for “oral” (transmucosal) robotic of #ustekinumab ready for Q&A in a long lane #DDW2024 ⁦American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)⁩ ⁦GETECCU⁩ ⁦Charlie Lees⁩ ⁦Beatriz Gros⁩ 😉😉😉

#Edinburgh team very attentive at presentations in #DDW2024 Ballroom 2 ⁦Charlie Lees⁩ ⁦Beatriz Gros⁩

What a great way to kick off #WorldIBDDay2024 🏃

Missing the rest of the team but here we are representing the Edinburgh #IBD unit

Cannot explain how much I miss seeing these faces every day

Charlie Lees Nathan Constantine-Cooke Alex Elford

Digestive Disease Week #DDW2024

Capitol Hill Classic 10km with Miles and Kay

Raising awareness of IBD on #WorldIBDday

Great way to start Sunday #DDW2024

IBD Nurse Kay Crohn's & Colitis UK

The lights in room 146AB are blinding and very distracting.

#DDW2024

Stuck in a super spicy immigration queue

Wondering what the next few days at #DDW2024 will bring to the IBD community

Will be on the look out for practice changing data and exciting new molecules

Hoping for new data on predicting outcomes including disease onset, drug

Launching ahead of #WorldIBDDay , Open-IBD is an ambitious project that aims to uncover new ways to predict, monitor, and treat #Crohnsdisease and #ulcerativecolitis 🔎

Read more about it here 👇
sanger.ac.uk/news_item/ambi…

Read more about the aims of Open-IBD to follow 1000 IBD patients long term with serial multi-omics to study disease heterogeneity, long term outcomes and precision medicine

Thanks to our funders Open Targets and Wellcome Sanger Institute 🙏

opentargets.org/news/open-ibd-…

📢 On World #IBD Day weekend Carl Anderson and I are delighted to introduce Open-IBD!

£11M funding from Open Targets and Wellcome Sanger Institute

Open-IBD will study serial multi-omics and longterm outcomes from diagnosis in 1,000 people with IBD

More👇

opentargets.org/news/open-ibd-…

What will technology do to gastroenterology?

Interesting commentary in Gastroenterology by Seamus O'Mahony

Some interesting historical perspectives. I'm sure many will disagree on his predictions about the future but some food for thought nonetheless

gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-…

Svenska Gastrodagarna 2024 in Linköping kicking off with professor Charlie Lees giving a splendid keynote on IBD. 🤩

Running, sunshine, sleep and healthy foods

Space to think and to simply be

Low cost tools to best stress and boost mood

How do we properly move the needle for IBD patients?

Prediction and prevention?
• Yes but how

Prediction and early intervention?
• Yes but with what

More targeted therapies?
• Yes but at what cost

Check out all these brilliant and inspirational videos from Prof Lees - providing valuable education and training on IBD for all 🙌🌍