Dermot O'toole MD, FRCPI, MBBCh

Dermot O’Toole is a Professor in Gastroenterology and Clinical Medicine at Trinity College Dunlin (The University of Dublin) and is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at St James’s Hospital Dublin and the Neuroendocrine Tumour specialist in the ENETS-accredited European Centre of Excellence in St Vincent’s University Hospitals Dublin. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin and has postgraduate degrees from Trinity College Dublin, the University of Paris, and the University of Angers. His major research interest is in gastrointestinal cancer biology especially focussing on neuroendocrine-related diseases and early neoplasia in the gastrointestinal tract (Barrett’s esophagus, gastric and colorectal cancers; current H-index is 50). 

Professor O’Toole leads the national endoscopic interventional program for early digestive cancers and is also a national clinical lead for the neuroendocrine tumor group. He also serves on the executive committee of the European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) and has helped develop many guidelines papers and standards of care initiatives in the field of NET as well as chairing the ENETS-driven European Centre of Excellence program. He has been the principal investigator and/or coordinator in many national and international research activities in GI oncology.