Dr Ibrahim Masoodi is one of our consultant gastroenterologists. Since 2021, Dr Masoodi has been the author of a magazine called ‘The Health Guide’, which has recently been granted an ISSN number by The British Library. This allows the health guide to be identifiable as part of a worldwide database.
The Health Guide is aimed partly at healthcare professionals and partly at the wider population. For healthcare professionals there are case studies, while the remainder of the magazine is filled with articles and information in the form of stories. Readers can submit articles too – all with the aim of raising awareness of the benefits preventative healthcare. There are currently thousands of subscribers to the magazine across the world.
“Preventative medicine has a very important role,” says Dr Masoodi, “so my goal is to advise youngsters about healthy lifestyles. Smoking, vaping, alcohol and drug abuse are upcoming disasters in society and we need to address them. I want to teach people about healthy lifestyles before preventable disease reaches the point of irreversibility and our options become limited.”
Dr. Masoodi has worked in the trust for just over a year. He graduated from medical college Srinagar Kashmir in India and did his fellowship in gastroenterology at the postgraduate institute of medical education and research in Chandigarh, India. Dr. Masoodi worked in Saudi Arabia for a while before returning to southern India, from where he moved to Ireland, working at St. Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin, before moving to Eastbourne.
As well as writing his monthly health guide, Dr. Masoodi runs a Google classroom for colleagues and a Facebook clinic, which are free. He is also principal investigator of various research projects.
“My belief that prevention is better than cure holds very deep and I want my work to help educate the younger generation in the UK.”