Professor Matt Rutter JAG Chair I am delighted to have been appointed as the next JAG Chair. Throughout my career, JAG has been pivotal in the modernisation of UK endoscopy services and endoscopy training. Despite the many challenges that our specialty faces, both new and old, the UK’s multidisciplinary endoscopy community remains its strongest asset. I look forward to working with the JAG team and the endoscopy community at large to help us overcome these challenges and to continue to evolve our services to deliver the highest quality care for our patients and population.
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Dr Mark Jarvis JAG accreditation Chair Mark trained at Oxford University and Imperial College London, gaining the Rudolph Kohnstamm prize for clinical medicine before qualifying in 1999. Based mainly in England he has also worked in Glasgow and in New Zealand. He accepted his current post as a Consultant Gastroenterologist in Basildon, Essex in 2013. Mark has a passion for clinical quality in endoscopy. He became a JAG assessor in 2019 and Chair of JAG accreditation in 2022.
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Miss Sarah Mills JAG training Chair Sarah is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Chair of ACPGBI Colonoscopy Committee. She is passionate about improving access to and quality of endoscopy training in the UK | 
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Debbie Johnston Head assessor for accreditation Debbie is the head assessor, providing expert leadership to over 30 assessors, ensuring consistent application of the JAG standards, and assessments of the highest possible quality. She has over 30 years’ experience in healthcare in nursing, managerial, quality improvement and quality assurance roles, and has played a key role in the development of JAG accreditation since its establishment in 1994.
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Helen Griffith JAG Nurse Lead Helen has contributed to the development of endoscopy services during her thirty three year career in the speciality. This includes roles as a nurse consultant, clinical endoscopist, national nurse advisor to the NHSBCSP, decontamination advisor to the BSG, and as a lead assessor for JAG. Although semi-retired, Helen has seen and assisted in the considerable improvement in quality and safety of endoscopy service in the UK. Helen will take over the position of JAG Nurse Lead in September. |  |
Mark Donnelly Bowel cancer screener accreditation (BCSA) Panel Chair Dr Mark Donnelly is chair of the BCSA programme accreditation panel. He is a Consultant Gastroenterologist in Sheffield. He has been a screener for 15 years and has conducted numerous accreditation days both in Sheffield and elsewhere. He is the Clinical Director of the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Bowel Cancer Screening Centre. His other main interest is endoscopy training, and he established the Sheffield Endoscopy Training Centre in 2001, one of the original JAG endoscopy training centres. The centre has delivered in excess of 200 JAG approved hands-on endoscopy training courses. He has an international reputation as an endoscopy trainer, delivering training courses in India, Bangladesh, Sudan, Cairo and throughout Europe. He is currently the foundation Clinical Director of the Yorkshire Endoscopy Training Academy (YETA).
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Dr Jamie Barbour Federation of Training Centres (FTC) Clinical Lead Dr Jamie Barbour is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead, England. Jamie has a special interest in both advanced endoscopy and training endoscopy. He developed Endoscopic Mucosa Resection (EMR) since arriving at Gateshead in 2007 and went on to set up regional services for Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) and endoscopic treatment for achalasia (POEM). He has been running regular endo courses at Gateshead for 10+ years and has been lucky enough to join other colleagues running courses in the UK and internationally. He is the JAG Regional Training Centre lead with Maria Pettman where they represent and promote the basic and advance courses that are running in the UK from Training centres providing JAG approved endoscopy courses.
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Maria Pettman Federation of Training Centres (FTC) Operational Lead Maria Pettman, Registered Nurse (RGN), dip onc, MSc. Maria is an Independent Nurse Consultant/Endoscopist in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. Currently working as BCSP endoscopist throughout the region as well as performing service and training lists. Nurse Representative on the ACPGBI colonoscopy committee and previous chair of the ACPN. | 
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Miss Henna Rafique JETS Clinical Lead Miss Henna Rafique is a consultant colorectal surgeon at University College London Hospital. She has interests in locally advanced and recurrent rectal cancers, inflammatory bowel disease and pouch surgery. She is a JAG certified endoscopist and is JETS national clinical lead for JAG and the Royal College of Physicians. |  |
Dr Tom Lee National Endoscopy Database (NED) Chair The Joint Advisory Group for GI Endoscopy are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Tom Lee to the position of NED Chair Designate. In the coming months, Tom will succeed Prof Matt Rutter as Chair of the National Endoscopy Database. Tom is a Consultant Gastroenterologist in Northumbria with a keen interest in endoscopy and cancer genetics. He has served as Clinical Lead for the National Endoscopy Database since 2014 and is co-chair of the Northern Region Endoscopy Group (NREG). Tom has a strong background in endoscopy research, improvement and implementation of new technology. We look forward to working with Tom on the continued development of NED and the opportunities it represents to the UK endoscopy community. |
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Phedra Dodds JETS Workforce lead Phedra has been chair of the Welsh Endoscopy Nurse Training faculty since 2015 and has focused on quality improvement as part of the national endoscopy team where she was lead nurse from 2002-2015. Phedra is responsible for providing leadership and direction for JETS Workforce and leads on the implementation of competency framework and training packages.
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