Northern Gastroenterology

Doctors

Dr John W Riley, MBBS (Syd) MD (Syd) FRACP

Dr John Riley graduated from Sydney University with Honours in Medicine in 1973. Initial post-graduate training in Gastroenterology was at Royal North Shore Hospital. He then spent three years in the United States at Columbia University Presbyterian Medical Centre in New York and during this time underwent further clinical training in Gastroenterology and also basic research. Subsequently a Doctoral Thesis was accepted by Sydney University based on research performed in the United States.

John Riley has been in private practice since 1981 and works as a Visiting Medical Officer at Royal North Shore Hospital, North Shore Private Hospital and The Mater Hospital. John Riley has been Director of Gastroenterology at The Mater Hospital, and Chairman of the Medical Staff Council at The Mater Hospital. He has also been Head of the section of Gastroenterology at the Sydney Adventist Hospital. John Riley is active in the department of Gastroenterology at Royal North Shore Hospital, and continues to teach Gastroenterology at both undergraduate and post graduate level. He has an Honorary appointment at Sydney University.

John Riley is a member of the Australian Medical Association, the Gastroenterological Society of Australia and the American Gastroenterological Association. He regularly attends both Australian and international meetings in Gastroenterology.

Special interests include all aspects of endoscopy, small bowel disease and inflammatory bowel disease.

Dr Philip Barnes MD, FRACP

Philip Barnes was born in Sydney in 1952 and attended Sydney University where he graduated MB., BS., with first class honours in 1977. He undertook resident and post graduate training at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney from 1977 to 1981, during this time he undertook basic gastroentrology training. In 1981-1984 he worked at St Marks hospital in London, where he completed an MD degree and completed training to become a fellow of the Royal Australasian college of Physicians in Gastroenterology.

Phillip Barnes returned to Sydney and set up clinical practice in 1984, and was appointed as VMO in Gastroenterology at the Concord repatriation Hospital, at the Royal Australian Airforce Base at Richmond, and in 1986 at the Royal North Shore Hospital at St Leonards. From 1997 until the end of 2001 was the head of the Department of Gastroenterology at Royal North Shore Hospital. He was appointed Consultant Gastroenterologist to the Royal Australian Navy in 1994.

Phillip Barnes has an interest in all aspects of gastroenterology, particularly the disease of the large bowel, and investigation and treatment of colorectal polyps and cancer. He has a broad experience and expertise in both therapeutic endoscopy and colonoscopy. His research interests have included investigation and management of chronic functional bowel disease such as constipation and mega-colon.

He currently has appointments at Royal North Shore Hospital, the Mater Hospital and North Shore Private hospital. His rooms are situated within North Shore Private Hospital.