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Welcome to the 24th Annual Frontiers in Colorectal and Intestinal Disease.

It is my great pleasure, as Dean of St Mark’s Academic Institute, to welcome you to London for the 24th Annual Frontiers in Colorectal and Intestinal Disease Congress. This year’s meeting focuses on colorectal disease at the crossroads – learning from the past, to create a better future.

We are delighted to host participants both here in London and around the world online. With high-quality facilities and streaming, we aim to provide every attendee with an excellent experience, whether joining us in person or virtually.

The programme embraces a wide range of multidisciplinary perspectives—medical, endoscopic, radiological, oncological, surgical nursing, and nutritional—while ensuring that the patient voice is clearly heard.

We are honoured to welcome Chris Lamb (UK) as the Sir Francis Avery Jones Visiting Professor, Alberto Arezzo (Italy) as the Sir Alan Parks Visiting Professor, and Trevor Graham (UK) delivering the Basil Morson State of the Art Lecture.

Over three days, the Congress will explore topics central to everyday clinical practice and cutting-edge research.

This year we will be running exclusive masterclasses on the first day held at St Mark’s, followed by 2 days of symposia in London at the Royal College of Surgeons.

On Wednesday we are running masterclasses on IBD, endoscopy and surgery. Surgery will have separate specialised sessions on the abdominal wall, endometriosis, IBD surgery and complex colorectal cancer.

Thursday opens with sessions with ‘Beyond the diagnosis: a hopeful future for stage IV colon cancer’, ‘Intestinal failure: learning from pitfalls – past insights, present practice, future care’, ‘Severe ulcerative colitis: escalation, exhaustion, and exit strategies’, and ‘Subacute hereditary cancer presentations: where do we go from here?’. The prestigious John Nicholls Prize will also be awarded for the best new research.

On Friday, we start with ‘Looking forward by looking back: the evolution of proctology practice’, then ‘Faecal incontinence: modern solutions for an age-old problem’, ‘Crohn’s disease: are we entering the post-surgical era?’, ‘Resectability reconsidered: modern strategies in advanced colorectal cancer’, ‘Future frontiers in colorectal collaboration building the networks that shape tomorrow’, and ‘Future visions of colorectal care’.

On Thursday and Friday we will host breakfast workshops in small groups with leading experts; early booking is essential as places are limited.

We warmly thank all our supporters, sponsors and contributors for their invaluable assistance in making this Congress possible. We hope the coming days will be stimulating, educational, and thought-provoking, and we wish you an enjoyable and memorable time here in London for the 24th Frontiers Congress.

Professor Omar Faiz, Dean St Mark’s Academic Institute

Venue

Day 1 Masterclasses: St Mark’s Hospital, Central Middlesex, Acton Road, London NW10 7NS

Day 2 & 3 Conference: Royal College of Surgeons, 38-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PE

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Date

18, 19 & 20 November 2026

Conference in person (2 days)

Consultants £250; From 1 Oct: £300
Trainee/Nurses/AHP £190; From 1 Oct: £240

Conference in person (1 day)

Consultants £175; From 1 Oct: £225
Trainee/Nurses/AHP: £100; From 1 Oct: £150

Masterclasses: 18 November 2026

Registration: £200

Breakfast workshops

Registration coming soon. To see the timetable please refer to the main programme. If you want to be the first to hear and with a chance to book, please sign up to our mailing list. Breakfast workshops always sell out! You can register on our home page or on our contact page.

Online and on-demand

Registration: £50