Dr. Andrew Wakefield MBBS, FRCS, FRC Path, is an academic gastroenterologist and Executive Director of Thoughtful House Centre for Children in Austin, Texas. He graduated in Medicine from St. Mary’s Hospital, University of London, in 1981, and pursued a career in gastrointestinal surgery with a specific interest in inflammatory bowel disease. He qualified as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985, and in 1996 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Travelling Fellowship to study small intestinal transplantation in Toronto, Canada. He is involved in several scientific collaborations in the U.S and Europe.

The main focus of Dr. Wakefield’s current research is an investigation of the immunologic, metabolic, and pathologic changes occurring in inflammatory bowel diseases such as autistic enterocolitis, as well as links between intestinal disease and neurologic injury in children, and the potential relationship of these conditions to environmental causes, such as childhood vaccines.

Dr Wakefield has published 132 original scientific articles, book chapters and invited scientific commentaries and was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2001. He is medical advisor to the United Kingdom charity, Visceral, and sits on the board of the U.S. charity, Medical Interventions for Autism.

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