About Professor Kang

Professor Kang studied Medicine in Birmingham University, coming top in his year and graduating with an honours degree in 1973.  He trained in Gastroenterology at the General Hospital, Birmingham and the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney.  In 1981 he joined the National University of Singapore as Lecturer in Medicine and subsequently became Consultant Gastroenterologist, Head of the Division of Gastroenterology and Associate Professor of Medicine.  He emigrated back to Britain in 1995, and was Consultant Gastroenterologist at the James Paget Hospital, Norfolk.  Since 1999 he has been Consultant Gastroenterologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at St George’s Hospital and Queen Mary’s University Hospital, Roehampton. He was appointed Visiting Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore in 2011.  From 2008 Professor Kang has been carrying out his private practice within the London Gastroenterology Partnership.

Professor Kang’s clinical interests include dysphagia, dyspepsia, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, other oesophageal conditions, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer screening. He performs gastroscopy, colonoscopy, capsule endoscopy and oesophageal physiological studies. He is actively involved in research in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, including Barrett’s oesophagus and laryngopharyngeal reflux, eosinophilic oesophagitis, diverticular disease of the colon, inflammatory bowel disease, coeliac disease and irritable bowel syndrome. He is co-Lead for the National Registry of Eosinophilic Oesophagitis, set up under the auspices of the Oesophageal Section of the British Society) of Gastroenterology. He has published over 170 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Professor Kang has had extensive experience in clinical Gastroenterology and endoscopy for more than 30 years.  He has performed more than 5,000 colonoscopies and over 14,000 gastroscopies with a significant complication rate of 0.1%.

Professor Kang’s English wife of thirty years, Susan, has a nursing background and works as his private practice secretary.

College and Society affiliations

  • Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of London
  • Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
  • Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • Fellow, Academy of Medicine of Singapore
  • Member, British Society of Gastroenterology
  • Member, Oesophageal Section Committee of the British Society of Gastroenterology
  • MRCP Examiner, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Conditions Treated

All aspects of gastroenterology including:

  • Dysphagia and oesophageal motility disorders
  • Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, Barrett’s oesophagus
  • Abdominal pain, dyspepsia, peptic ulcer, Helicobacter pylori infection
  • Investigation of iron deficiency anaemia and obscure gastrointestinal bleeding
  • Irritable bowel syndrome
  • Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease
  • Diverticular disease of the colon
  • Coeliac disease
  • Colonic polyps and family history of colorectal cancer
  • Investigation of rectal bleeding and abnormal bowel habit

Procedures performed:

  • Gastroscopy
  • Colonoscopy
  • Rigid sigmoidoscopy
  • Flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • Capsule endoscopy
  • Oesophageal manometry and 24-hour lower oesophageal pH studies