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• Richard H. Holloway

Richard H. Holloway

Dr Richard Holloway is a Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist and Head of Laboratory Services and Education in the Department of Gastroenterology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Adelaide. He graduated from the University of New South Wales in 1975 and undertook his early postgraduate training and subsequent specialist training in gastroenterology in Sydney. He then spent four years in the United States training in gastrointestinal motility with Richard McCallum at Yale University and the late Jerry Dodds at the Medical College of Wisconsin, before returning to Australia in 1985 to take up a position initially at Flinders Medical Centre and subsequently at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He was awarded a Doctor of Medicine from the University of NSW in 1987. Dr Holloway has had a longstanding clinical and research interest in the area of gastrointestinal motility. His major interest has been in pathophysiology of gastroesophageal reflux disease, particularly lower esophageal sphincter dysfunction, but he also has interests in gastrointestinal motility in critically ill patients and the effects of radiation on anorectal motility.