Job Title
Consultant in Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Location
Related services
Sub-specialty
- Hepatology
Biography
Dr Vaziri was appointed as a Consultant in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in 2019. He qualified with distinction from St. George’s, University of London in 2010. He completed his foundation training at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, before moving to the East of England where he received training in Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Internal Medicine. During this period, he rotated through a range of training centres including the Cambridge Liver Transplant Unit. He has published on a range of topics including the effect of direct acting antivirals on hepatitis C associated hepatocellular carcinoma and liver transplantation, and quality improvement projects in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He has presented his work at national and international conferences.
He has leadership roles in Hepatology service development, the alcohol oversight group, and clinical governance within the Gastroenterology department. He is interested in clinical research and is currently a primary investigator for the BOPPP clinical trial, and the NAFLD bioresource study.
Dr Vaziri enjoys teaching. He is a JAG accredited endoscopy trainer and a faculty member of the JAG Haemostasis and Upper GI endoscopy basic skills courses. He is an accredited Educational and Clinical Supervisor and provides regular teaching in Gastroenterology and Hepatology to doctors in post graduate training.
His clinical practice includes outpatient Hepatology clinics at Watford General Hospital and Hemel Hempstead General Hospital, where he treats patients with a range of conditions including viral, autoimmune, metabolic, vascular and alcohol related liver diseases. He undertakes an elective portal hypertension upper GI endoscopy list and an elective diagnostic and therapeutic lower GI endoscopy list, as well as providing emergency inpatient gastrointestinal endoscopy as a member of the rotating on-call team. He co-chairs hepatology and HPB cancer multidisciplinary team meetings at the trust and works closely with colleagues at the Royal Free Hospital to collaboratively manage patients with complex liver diseases, including those requiring tertiary liver services such as TIPSS, and assessment for liver transplantation.
