Keynote Speaker

Professor Bu'Hussain Hayee is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at King’s College Hospital and has been Clinical Director since October 2022. He trained at Guy’s Hospital (GKT Medical School), graduating in 1999, and was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2015.

He is a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology (member of the Endoscopy section committee, guidelines lead for Endoscopy and Councillor) and the American and European Societies for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

He is also Co-director of the King’s Institute of Therapeutic Endoscopy. In the past, he has held national positions of responsibility including Clinical Lead in Digital Innovations at NHSX, Director of the London Endoscopy Academy and one of three Clinical Leads for the Greener NHS Programme in London as well as initiating the Green Endoscopy initiative alongside the British Society of Gastroenterology.

As a Professor in Gastroenterology at King’s College London, Bu retains an active research interest, supervising several PhD fellows and basic scientists. He is nationally-accredited for bowel cancer screening colonoscopy and has specialist interests in therapeutic endoscopy, robotics and artificial intelligence, supported by NIHR project grant funding.

His team recently completed the NAIAD study, one of the largest real-world trials of computer-assisted detection in colonoscopy (129 proceduralists and ~4500 patients), with implications for service provision, workforce deskilling and cancer survival. His talk will focus on the advent of artificial intelligence in the field of endoscopy, ethical considerations and risks as well as summarizing international societal guidelines governing implementation.