Dr Kennedy is a Specialist Registrar in Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine in the Thames Valley Deanery. He studied medicine at New College from 2008-2014. After undertaking his Foundation Programme training in the Severn Deanery, he worked as a Medical Officer in Emergency Medicine in Ngwelezane Hospital, Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa, then returned to undertake Acute Care Common Stem training in the Thames Valley Deanery, rotating through Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care and Anaesthetics. He commenced Gastroenterology training in 2020, and is now taking time out of programme to pursue research into inflammatory bowel disease and the gut microbiome, working towards a PhD.

Teaching

Dr Kennedy’s teaching responsibilities at New College are delivering a programme of bedside and small group tutorials to the Clinical Medicine students, primarily those in the fourth and sixth years of study.

Research interests

Dr Kennedy’s clinical interest is within luminal gastroenterology, specifically inflammatory bowel disease and clinical nutrition. His research bridges this interest, and he is currently running a randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled crossover trial of a prebiotic dietary intervention in patients with mild to moderate ulcerative colitis. 

Selected publications

• Kennedy J.M., De Silva A., Walton G.E., Gibson G.R.. A review on the use of prebiotics in ulcerative colitis. Trends in Microbiology [2023]
• Kennedy J.M., De Silva A., Walton G.E., Poveda C., Gibson G.R. Comparison of prebiotic candidates in ulcerative colitis using an in vitro fermentation model. Journal of Applied Microbiology [2024] 
• Honap, S., Chee, D., Chapman, T. P., Patel, M., Kent, A. J., Ray, S., Sharma, E., Kennedy, J., Cripps, S., Walsh, A., Goodhand, J. R., Ahmad, T., Satsangi, J., Irving, P. M., Kennedy, N. A.  Real-World Effectiveness of Tofacitinib for Moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis: A Multi-Centre UK Experience. Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis [2020] 
• Kennedy, J.M., Satsangi, J., Chapman, T.P.  Just another flare of ulcerative colitis? Gastroenterology. [2020]
• Kennedy, J.M., Simmonds, L., Orme, R., Doherty, W.  An unusual case of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection with pseudomembranous colitis-like lesions associated with haemolytic-uraemic syndrome and neurological sequelae. BMJ Case Reports. [2017]