Prof Matthew Rutter

Matt Rutter is Professor of Gastroenterology at Newcastle University and the University Hospital of North Tees in the United Kingdom. He specialises in advanced diagnostic colonoscopy, polypectomy, colorectal cancer screening and surveillance. He sits on BSG Council and the English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme advisory committee. He is founder and ex-chair of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Quality Improvement in Endoscopy committee, founded the UK’s National Endoscopy Database and ex-chair of the UK’s Joint Advisory Group for GI Endoscopy committee and World Endoscopy Organisation interval cancer subcommittee. He has published and lectured worldwide on quality in endoscopy, screening and colonoscopic surveillance, receiving the British Society of Gastroenterology Hopkins Endoscopy Prize in 2006 and 2020 and the Royal College of Physicians Goulstonian Lectureship in 2008. He co-authored BSG (2025), NICE (UK, 2011), European (ECCO, 2012) and SCENIC (USA, 2015) colitis surveillance guidelines, and was the lead author for the BSG/ACPGBI management of large non-pedunculated colorectal polyps guidelines (2015), BSG/ACPGBI/PHE post-polypectomy surveillance guidelines (2020) and BSG/ACPGBI polyp conservative management guidance (2025). He is regional screening lead for quality assurance in colonoscopy and regional (North East and North Cumbria ICS) endoscopy lead.