About
Theresa Hydes is an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Hepatology working at the University of Liverpool and a Gastroenterology/Hepatology trainee at Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She graduated from Imperial University in 2007, then moved to Wessex to undertake foundation year and core medical training, and started her speciality training in Gastroenterology in 2011. In 2013 Theresa undertook a PhD in liver immunology focusing on the innate immune system which was funded by an MRC clinical fellowship award. She then completed an Advanced Training Number post in Hepatology at Southampton and Cambridge NHS Trusts.
Theresa's current research interests is metabolic associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) including patient pathways, early disease detection, multimorbidity and MASLD-hepatocellular carcinoma. She is undertaking a number of clinical and epidemiological projects in this field and has achieved over 40 peer-review publications in high impact journals.
Theresa is an abstract reviewer for the EASL congress. She is also a member of the British Liver Trust Clinical Advisory Group and BASL Significant Interest Group for MASLD. She sits on the Athena Swan SAT committee for the University of Liverpool.
Prizes or Honours
- GUTS UK / BSG Trainee Award (GUTS UK / British Society of Gastroenterology, 2023)
- British Society of Gastroenterology Barber’s Company Award (British Society of Gastroenterology, 2023)
- Frontline Gastroenterology Editor’s Prize ‘Best patient benefit in gastroenterology’ (British Society for Gastroenterology, 2017)
Funded Fellowships
- MRC Clinical Training Reseach Fellowship (Medical Research Council (MRC), 2014 - 2017)