James Daveson

I am an adult gastroenterologist with a specialty interest in coeliac disease (CD) and have developed expertise as a clinician-researcher in this field. My career involves undertaking investigator-led research in CD, leading as Principal Investigator (PI) several industry supported trials, including in CD, and managing a busy clinical practice including a CD clinic. My publications in the CD have been highly translational and informed clinical practice.

After completing specialty training in gastroenterology in 2008, I subsequently established a large clinical practice that now employs four gastroenterologists in Brisbane and Central Queensland with a database of > 10,000 patients. In 2014, I established the first regional inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) clinic in the Mackay-Isaac-Whitsunday region after forming a key stakeholder interest group with Mackay Hospital and Health Service and the Mater Misericordiae Hospital. This spans an area of 90,000 sq km with a population of 180,000. It is the only gastroenterology clinic servicing both the public and private sectors between the Sunshine Coast and Townsville, and now caters for a large and well-characterized population of patients with CD and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).