John Lennard-Jones

During his career as a clinician and investigator, John became one of the world experts on inflammatory bowel disease, leading major clinical trials in the assessment and treatment of this. During his career, John realised the importance of parenteral nutrition for patients with severe inflammatory bowel disease, and he established a multidisciplinary team that developed broad expertise in nutritional support. [...]of his clinical acumen, comprehensive knowledge, high intelligence, and an empathic consultation style, he created a cohort of devoted patients who would happily wait hours to see him in his long outpatient clinic.