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Professor Daniel Sifrim, MD, PhD

Daniel

Professor of Gastrointestinal Physiology

Centre: Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma

Email: d.sifrim@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 20 7882 2631

Profile

Daniel Sifrim is a Gastroenterologist, trained in Argentina and Belgium, with both clinical and scientific interest in oesophageal benign disorders. He contributed with the development of diagnostic techniques for oesophageal motility disorders and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (high resolution manometry, oesophageal impedance and salivary pepsin measurements). He is Professor of Gastrointestinal Physiology at Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University. His research focused on pathophysiology of GORD, including gastric motility, transient lower oesophageal sphincter relaxations, types of refluxate measured with impedance-pH metry and more recently, oesophageal mucosal permeability and its role in hypersensitivity.

Summary

Professor Daniel Sifrim completed his medical training in 1979 at the Buenos Aires University, Argentina. He did his Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology training at the Posadas General Hospital, in Buenos Aires. In 1990 he moved to Belgium for specialized training in gastro-intestinal motility. He was a research fellow at the Center for Gastroenterological Research at the University of Leuven, Belgium and he obtained a PhD degree in 1994 under the supervision of Prof. dr. G. Vantrappen. From 1994 - 2008, Prof Sifrim developed his clinical research and academic career in Belgium. He was appointed first Associate Professor and later full Professor of Medicine at the University of Leuven. Since 2009, Prof. Sifrim has been Professor of Gastrointestinal Physiology at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London.

He serves as reviewer for most of the gastroenterology journals and has authored or co-authored more than 100 original articles, book chapters and reviews on esophageal disorders. He received the American Gastroenterology Association, Janssen Award 2003 for Basic and Clinical Research.

Academic Appointments  

  • 1989 -   1990 Instructor in Medicine Buenos Aires University, School of Medicine
  • 1989 -   1990 Scientific Advisory Council, Enteral Nutrition Buenos Aires University, School of Medicine
  • 1994 -  2004 Associate Professor of Medicine Faculty of Medicine. K.U.Leuven. Belgium
  • 2004 -   Professor of Medicine Faculty of Medicine. K.U.Leuven. Belgium
  • 2009 - Professor of GI Physiology Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London. 
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