Dr Daniel Crespi is an experienced Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Endoscopist at The Royal Free Hospital London. He sees children from newborn to 18 in Golders Green, London and Elstree in Hertfordshire. He can offer parents rapid access to telephone and video consultations, as well as face to face appointments in some clinical situations.

Daniel sees infants, children and teenagers with a variety of gastrointestinal (GI) problems and conditions.

These include:

abdominal pain, blood in stools, coeliac disease, constipation, diarrhoea, feeding problems, food allergy, gastro-oesophageal reflux, swallowing and vomiting problems, and concerns about weight loss and poor growth due to a GI cause.

Background

Dr Crespi qualified from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, King’s College London in 2001, and subsequently trained in London in general paediatrics. He then specialised in paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition, working in several of the major paediatric gastroenterology and hepatology centres in London and Southampton.

Current Roles

Daniel has been a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist since 2011 at the Centre for Paediatric Gastroenterology at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He has helped to develop the service there with new style nurse-led and telephone clinics, clinical governance and departmental guidelines and currently sits on the Hospital Drugs and Therapeutics Committee.

He is also involved in teaching medical students at University College London (UCL) Medical School, and was recently made an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor.

His Kids Gastro Care clinics are usually in North London (Hampstead and Golders Green) and in Elstree, Hertfordshire.

Memberships and research

He is a member of the:

• British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN)
• Gastrointestinal (GI) motility working group of BSPGHAN
• British Society of Gastroenterology
• Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Dr Crespi is also actively involved in research in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Gastroscopy
• Colonoscopy
• Paediatric Endoscopy
• Breath Tests
• General paediatric gastroenterology problems
• Abdominal pain in children
• Acid reflux
• Constipation in children
• Diarrhoea 
• Coeliac disease
• Blood in stool
• Blood in vomit
• Paediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
• Eosinophilic oesophagitis
• Food allergy
• Food intolerance
• Gastro-oesophageal reflux
• Reflux and colic
• Feeding issues
• Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
• Bloating
• Helicobacter infections
• Peptic ulcer disease