Dr Melanie Lockett, Physician and Gastroenterologist
Dr Melanie Lockett
Physician and Gastroenterologist
Dr Melanie Lockett BSc MB BS MD FRCP
Physician and Gastroenterologist

Areas of expertise
- Colonoscopy
- Bowel cancer screening
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Nutrition
- General gastroenterology

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About Dr Melanie Lockett
GMC number: 4096728
Year qualified: 1994
Place of primary qualification: University of London
Dr Melanie Lockett has been a Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist at Frenchay Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust since 2005. She has now set up two multidisciplinary nutrition teams and is currently the lead gastroenterologist for nutrition in North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT). She is the lead physician for intestinal bowel disease (IBD) in NBT and is experienced in the management of complex IBD. She believes in patient education and self-management and a multidisciplinary team approach. She is developing an IBD database and is experienced in the use of biological agents. She can offer dye-spray colonoscopy surveillance for extensive colitis.
Dr Lockett did her general medical and gastroenterological training on the prestigious North West Thames rotation. She was trained in colonoscopy at the Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy, St. Mark's hospital. St. Mark's hospital is the UK's only specialist hospital for colorectal disease and the Wolfson unit is a national colonoscopy training centre and an accredited bowel cancer screening centre. She is now teaching on the South West colonoscopy training courses. Her research 'Hyperplastic polyposis, serrated polyps and the serrated colorectal cancer pathway' was supervised by Professor Wendy Atkin and resulted in an MD from the University of London. During her research years, she developed an interest in familial colorectal cancer. She spent four years working in the intestinal failure unit at St. Mark's hospital, one of only two units in the UK.
Areas of expertise
- Colonoscopy
- Bowel cancer screening
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Nutrition
- General gastroenterology
- Bowel disease
- Endoscopy
- Liver disease
- Pancreatology
- Malabsorption
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Familial colorectal cancer
- General hepatology
- Undernutrition
- Faecal incontinence
- Bile acid malabsorption
- Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth
- Bloating
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