John Kellow, MD

Dr. John Kellow is currently Associate Professor and Head of the Discipline of Medicine, Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, and Gastroenterologist and Director of the Neurogastroenterology Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. Dr. Kellow graduated MBBS from the University of Sydney and subsequently received his doctorate (MD) from that university in 1988. He was made a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1985. Dr. Kellow was a University of Sydney Travelling Fellow at the Mayo Clinic, USA in 1984-1985, and was a Commonwealth Medical Fellow at the Royal London Hospital Medical College, UK in 1986. He is a member of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia, The American Gastroenterological Association, The American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society, and the European Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility.

Dr. Kellow has published extensively including original research papers, book chapters and reviews. His primary and long-standing research interests are disorders of gastrointestinal motility and the pathophysiology and treatment of the functional gastrointestinal disorders. He is a Board Member of the Rome Foundation, and a member of the Advisory Board of the International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. He serves on the Editorial Boards of a number of international journals in gastroenterology. He has also had a long-standing interest in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and curriculum development, and was previously Associate Dean (Assessment) Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney.