Dr Arjuna Singanayagam

Clinical interests

Dr Singanayagam is a Consultant Hepatologist at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Senior Lecturer at St. George’s University London, appointed in 2019, specializing in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He has a special interest in advanced liver disease and acute liver failure.

Professional profile

Dr Singanayagam went to medical school at University College London graduating with a distinction in Medicine and a First Class intercalated BSc in Physiology and Pharmacology. His registrar training was in South London in gastroenterology and hepatology, including King’s College Hospital and St. George’s Hospital. He undertook a fellowship at the Institute of Liver Studies at King’s College Hospital, with experience in the Liver intensive therapy unit, liver transplantation and specialist hepatology clinics. He undertook a PhD investigating immune mechanisms conferring susceptibility to infection in liver disease at Imperial College London having been awarded the Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship in 2015.

He has hepatology clinics at St. George’s, the Nelson and Queen Mary’s Hospitals, a weekly upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy list at St George’s and works as a senior lecturer at St. George’s University developing research interests in liver disease. He is a member of both the British and European Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.