Professor Naila Arebi

Professional statement

Professor Naila Arebi is a renowned consultant gastroenterologist and the director and clinical lead of the IBD Clinical Service at St. Mark's National Bowel Hospital, where she focuses on managing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) through surveillance, diagnostic colonoscopy, endoscopy, and the treatment of conditions such as rectal bleeding, weight loss, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis, but to mention a few.

Professor Arebi began her medical education at the University of Malta and pursued further training in Oxford and the Northwest Thames region of London, where she earned her qualifications in gastroenterology and general medicine. She then specialised in advanced endoscopy at St. Mark's Hospital and completed a PhD at Imperial College London. She is also an expert in diarrhoea, constipation, acid reflux, indigestion and non-chronic abdominal pain.

Recognised for her academic excellence, Professor Arebi received multiple travel scholarships, which enabled her to gain experience at the Medical University of South Carolina's Endoscopy Unit, as well as at Kishiwada Tokushukai Hospital and Osaka University Hospital in Japan. As a consultant, she has significantly contributed to the field of gastroenterology, securing an NIHR award that she utilised to enhance IBD services for patient care. Additionally, she notably established the Bravo Catheterless pH monitoring service to advance the hospital's oesophageal diagnostic capabilities and currently sits on the British Society of Gastroenterology’s adolescent section committee, where as a previous chair she completed a project on setting research priorities for digital technology for adolescents and young people with IBD and now leads the transition guidelines.