Professor Ingvar Bjarnason qualified from the University of Iceland and completed my training in Gastroenterology at the MRC Clinical Research Center at Northwick Park Hospital between 1981-1990. Thereafter he worked at King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London as Registrar, Senior Lecturer, Reader and subsequently Professor of Digestive Diseases and Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist.

Professor Bjarnason has devoted much time to research and is the author of over 300 publications. He developed and validated many new investigational methods for studying the intestine including faecal calprotectin and mu team was in the forefront of research on video capsule enterosocpy. Mt team and has discovered some new diseases, where none were thought to exist, such as NSAID enteropathy which affects millions of people worldwide and our research elucidated the biochemical mechanisms of the damage of NSAIDs and treatment.