CCT in Gastroenterology & General Internal medicine
Performs diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy including gastroscopy, colonoscopy, push enteroscopy, ERCP, EUS, feeding tube placement, stricture dilatations and enteral stent placements.
Speaks: English, Hindi, Bengali
/ 15+ years of professional experience
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Accomplished Gastroenterologist with dual accreditation in Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine, supported by advanced subspecialty training in pancreatobiliary medicine.
With over 15 years of clinical experience within the NHS, including a Consultant role at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust — a regional HPB (hepato-pancreato-biliary) centre — Dr. Banerjee has developed extensive expertise in the diagnosis and management of complex pancreatobiliary conditions.
ACHIEVEMENTS
- BSG Travel bursary award for presentation in UEGW - UEGW, Barcelona (2017)
- Best oral poster presentation prize – PSGBI, Manchester (2016)
Selected for Cook Basic ERCP Course – Rome (2015)
- MSD IBD Academy Award (2014)
- Falk Symposium Award (2013)
- Shire Innovation Travel Bursary Award (2012)
COURSES
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (2020)
- Stoke ERCP/EUS symposium (2016)(2018)
- HOT AXIOS guided pancreatic pseudocyst drainage (2016)
- Nottingham Endoscopy Masterclass (October 2015)
- EUS-FNA hands on course (November 2015 – Quality in Endoscopy ERCP & EUS Symposium)
- Data Analysis for Researchers (2012)
- Teaching and Supporting Learning (2012)
PROCEDURAL COMPETENCIES
- OGD & therapeutics (JAG certified)
- (Variceal banding and GI Haemorrhage haemostasis, glue injection and sclerotherapy, PEG/PEJ/NJ/NG, dilatation, oesophageal/duodenal/colonic stents, achalasia dilatation and endoscopic injection therapy, foreign body removal using overtube)
- Colonoscopy (JAG certified – Full certification – Level 2)
- (Polypectomy and Endoscopic mucosal resection, Haemorrhoidal banding) ERCP
- Linear and Radial EUS - UGI and HPB including FNA, EUS interventions using HOT AXIOS stent for cystgastrostomy
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Management of acute and chronic pancreatitis, including IgG4-related disease, hereditary and alcohol-induced pancreatitis, as well as advanced treatment of pancreatic pseudocysts using HOT AXIOS cystgastrostomy.
Expertise in the assessment and treatment of biliary pain and sphincter of Oddi dysfunction.
Comprehensive management of biliary stone disease, including advanced therapeutic approaches.
- Advanced Endoscopic Procedures
Highly skilled in ERCP, EUS, and a wide range of pancreatobiliary interventions.
Procedures performed by Dr. Ashwini Banerjee at ELEMENTAL Day Surgical Center in Jumeirah 1, Dubai: Gastroenterology consultation, Gastroscopy and Colonoscopy.
What Dr. Banerjee sees patients for
Most appointments fall into a small number of groups, and the plan is set after history, examination and the tests that are actually indicated — not a standard panel for everyone.
- Reflux and upper abdominal symptoms — heartburn, regurgitation, difficulty swallowing, indigestion that does not settle, suspected Helicobacter pylori.
- Bowel symptoms — irritable bowel syndrome, a change in bowel habit, chronic constipation or diarrhoea, bloating, unexplained weight loss.
- Inflammatory bowel disease — Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis: diagnosis, monitoring and long-term management.
- Rectal bleeding and anaemia — assessed rather than assumed, with iron-deficiency anaemia investigated from both ends of the gut.
- Liver — abnormal liver blood tests, fatty liver, hepatitis, jaundice.
- Pancreas and bile ducts — pancreatitis, bile duct stones, strictures and pancreatobiliary disease. This is Dr. Banerjee's subspecialty area, developed at a regional hepato-pancreato-biliary centre in the NHS.
- Screening — bowel cancer screening and surveillance where family history, age or a previous polyp makes it appropriate.
Procedures Dr. Banerjee performs
Dr. Banerjee holds a CCT in Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine and performs diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy: gastroscopy, colonoscopy, push enteroscopy, ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound, stricture dilatation, enteral stent placement and feeding tube placement. At ELEMENTAL the procedures are carried out in a DHA-licensed day surgical centre with sedation and same-day discharge; where a case belongs in a hospital — an emergency, a complex therapeutic procedure or a patient whose general health requires inpatient cover — that is said at the consultation and the referral is arranged rather than the procedure being fitted into the wrong setting.
When to see a gastroenterologist rather than wait
Some symptoms are worth an appointment sooner: difficulty swallowing, vomiting blood or black stools, rectal bleeding, unintentional weight loss, a persistent change in bowel habit beyond a few weeks, iron-deficiency anaemia found on a blood test, jaundice, or severe upper abdominal pain radiating to the back. These are not diagnoses in themselves — they are the symptoms that decide the order in which things are investigated.
Consultation, languages and cost
A consultation with Dr. Banerjee is AED 750 — the consultant tariff at ELEMENTAL — and covers history, examination, review of any imaging or blood results you bring, and a written plan. Endoscopy, if indicated, is quoted separately and in writing before it is booked: gastroscopy with sedation from AED 8,000 and colonoscopy with sedation from AED 9,000, each covering the sedation, histology and recovery. Prices updated: September 2026.
Bring your current medication list, previous endoscopy or imaging reports, and recent blood results if you have them. Consultations are in English, Hindi or Bengali. ELEMENTAL works on a self-pay basis and issues an itemised invoice and a medical report for you to claim reimbursement from your insurer yourself.
DHA licence 66338367-009. Clinic: 113 Jumeirah Street, Jumeirah 1, Dubai. See also the gastroenterology consultation page and the endoscopy and diagnostics section.
