Cathryn Edwards

Professor Cathryn Edwards is a consultant physician and gastroenterologist working in south Devon. She trained in medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, prior to which she read modern history at The Queen’s College, Oxford. Her postgraduate medical education was based in Oxford and her DPhil studies were supported by a Medical Research Council fellowship.

Prior to her appointment as registrar, Cathryn held several other roles at the RCP, including chair of the Joint Specialty Committee for Gastroenterology and Hepatology, member of the Medical Specialties Board and RCP councillor. Cathryn was the first female secretary of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and its second female president. As part of her work with the BSG, she promoted mentorship as a means of personal development, instigating the BSG Mentorship Programme, launched in 2018. She has supported staff, associate specialist and specialty (SAS) doctors, physician associates (PAs) and other non-medical colleagues in further training in endoscopy. She holds a visiting role at the University of Cape Town which involves training and mentorship support and is a trustee of her local hospice board which she chaired until 2019.