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Professor Hugh Barr has been a Consultant Surgeon at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for 10 years and has an interest in upper gastrointestinal disease. He is also the foundation Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Bioscience, Cranfield University and the lead clinician for the National Cancer Research Network in the Three Counties Cancer Centre. His undergraduate training was at the University of Liverpool,. His research interest is Barrett’s oesophagus and its early optical detection and treatment. He is a councillor and secretary of the British Medical Laser Association, and former Endoscopy Committee member of the British Society of Gastroenterology. He leads a major research group on optical/spectroscopic diagnosis and also co-supervises a molecular biology group on Barrett’s oesophagus. He is a member of the South West NHS Research and Education Committee, the Development Committee and the Gloucestershire Research Consortium. Professor Barr has published over 100 papers and 25 book chapters.