About Dr Lim
Dr Yean Lim is a consultant gastroenterologist and accredited bowel cancer screening colonoscopist at The Duchy Hospital, Harrogate.
He diagnoses and treats conditions of the oesophagus, stomach and bowel, with particular interests in colonoscopy, bowel cancer screening and the removal of bowel polyps. Insured and self-funding patients are welcome.
Background
Dr Lim trained in gastroenterology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, followed by an additional year-long endoscopy fellowship there. He has developed a strong interest in all areas of gastroenterology. His abstract submissions have won prizes at national and international meetings, and he was awarded a travelling grant to present his work. His research on endoscopy has been published in Endoscopy and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
He joined the GMC Specialist Register in 2014 and worked as a consultant gastroenterologist at University Hospital of North Durham. In 2017 he moved to Malaysia under the Returning Expert Programme, spending two years as a consultant gastroenterologist at Gleneagles Hospital, where he introduced video capsule enteroscopy, high-resolution oesophageal manometry with impedance, and nasoendoscopy.
In 2019 he returned to the UK and took up his current post as a consultant gastroenterologist in Harrogate, where he has since helped to form the Large Polyp and Nutrition multidisciplinary teams. He was appointed Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds in 2020, teaching medical students, and was accredited as a colonoscopist for the national Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in 2022.
Procedures
Gastroscopy, colonoscopy (with or without dye spray), bowel cancer screening colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, polyp removal (polypectomy) and endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR).