David S. Sanders is a professor of gastroenterology at the University of Sheffield and an NHS consultant based in the Academic Unit of Gastroenterology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, and the NHS England National Centre for Refractory Coeliac Disease. He is the current Chair of the Coeliac UK Health Advisory Council, a board member of the European Society for the Study of Coeliac Disease (ESsCD), a former BSG Council Member from 2016 to 2019, and a former president of the International Society for the Study of Coeliac Disease (ISSCD) from 2016 to 2019. He has received several research awards: the European Rising Star Award (2010), the Cuthbertson Medal (2011) and Silver Medal in 2017 (UK Nutrition Society), the Swedish Gastroenterology Society Bengt Ihre Medal (2017), and the British Society for Gastroenterology (BSG) Hopkins prize for Endoscopy (2019). He is internationally recognized for his work in coeliac disease, percutaneous gastrostomy feeding (PEG), and small bowel endoscopy. His other research interests include pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, irritable bowel syndrome, and gastrointestinal bleeding.