Matt Rutter

WORK HISTORY

ABOUT MATT RUTTER

Matt Rutter is Professor of Gastroenterology at Newcastle University and the University Hospital of North Tees in the United Kingdom, and Clinical Director of the Tees Bowel Cancer Screening Centre. He specialises in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, advanced diagnostic colonoscopy, polypectomy, colorectal cancer screening and surveillance.He sits on the English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme advisory committee and is an elected member of the British Society of Gastroenterology Council. He is founder and ex-chair of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Quality Improvement in Endoscopy committee, founded and chaired the UK’s National Endoscopy Database (20••••22) and chaired the UK’s Joint Advisory Group for GI Endoscopy committee (20••••25) and World Endoscopy Organisation interval cancer subcommittee. He is a Medical Reviewer for Crohn\'s and Colitis UK.He has published and lectured worldwide on quality in endoscopy, screening and colonoscopic surveillance, receiving the British Society of Gastroenterology Hopkins Endoscopy Prize in 2006 and 2020 and the Royal College of Physicians Goulstonian Lectureship in 2008. He co-authored BSG (2025), NICE (UK, 2011), European (ECCO, 2012) and SCENIC (USA, 2015) colitis surveillance guidelines, and was the lead author for the BSG/ACPGBI management of large non-pedunculated colorectal polyps guidelines (2015), BSG/ACPGBI/PHE post-polypectomy surveillance guidelines (2020) and BSG/ACPGBI polyp conservative management guidance (2025).He is regional screening lead for quality assurance in colonoscopy and regional (both NHSE North East and Yorkshire, and NENC ICS) endoscopy lead.