Dipesh Vasant is a consultant luminal gastroenterologist at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Vasant trained mainly in the North West, but undertook a period of advanced motility training in USA, before completing the advanced Salford-Oxford intestinal failure Nutrition fellowship in 2017. He has a strong clinical and research interest in provision of integrated multidisciplinary care and gut-brain therapies for patients’ with disorders of gut-brain interaction and motility disorders, and runs a specialised motility lab in Manchester. Dr Vasant has been a co-author on two recent BSG guidelines in the management of functional GI disorders, and is currently working on a chapter with the Rome Foundation as a committee member for the forthcoming updated Rome V classifications for disorders of gut-brain interaction.