Michael FitzPatrick

I am a gastroenterologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital and clinical lecturer in the Nuffield Department of Medicine. I first trained in Zoology in Cambridge, defected to Medicine and studied and trained in London for 8 years, before moving to Oxford for my gastroenterology training. I completed a DPhil studying T cell biology in the gut in the contest of coeliac disease and intestinal transplantation.

I teach clinical medicine and gastroenterology for Trinity medical students. I also teach GI anatomy and physiology for the graduate medicine programme, and provide regular teaching to medical students in the gastroenterology department.

I am interested in gut immunology, tissue-resident memory T cell behaviour, and innate-like T cells. In particular, I am interested in coeliac disease, and in intestinal transplantation.

Provine N, Amini A, Garner L, FitzPatrick M, et al. Adenovirus vectors activate Vδ2+γδT cells in a type I interferon-, TNF-, and IL-18-dependent manner. European Journal of Immunology  2021.

Vokes L, FitzPatrick M. Call me maybe? Telephone clinics for coeliac disease dietetic services. Frontline Gastroenterology 2021.  

Sasson SC, Slevin SM, Cheung VTF, Nassiri I, FitzPatrick MEB et al. IFNγ-producing CD8+ tissue resident memory T cells are a targetable hallmark of immune checkpoint inhibitor-colitis. Gastroenterology 2021.  

FitzPatrick MEB*, Provine NM*, Garner LC*, et al. Human intestinal tissue-resident memory T cells comprise transcriptionally and functionally distinct subsets. Cell Reports 2021.

Provine NM, Amini A, Garner LC, Dold C, Hutchings C, FitzPatrick MEB, et al. Activation of MAIT cells plays a critical role in viral vector vaccine immunogenicity. Science 2021.  

FitzPatrick MEB, Badu-Boateng C, Huntley C, Morgan C. ‘Attorneys of the poor’: Training physicians to tackle health inequalities. Future Healthcare Journal 2020.  

Vijayakumar B, Hynes G, Kitt J, Millette S, Fitzpatrick MEB. An effective procedure skills training programme for GIM registrars. Future Healthcare Journal 2020. 

Marjot T, McGregor C, Ambrose T (editors) Best of Five MCQS for the European Specialty Examination in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. OUP 2020. (contributing author) 

Foers A, Shoukat S, Welsh O, FitzPatrick MEB et al. Classification of intestinal T cell receptor repertoires using machine learning methods can identify patients with coeliac disease regardless of dietary gluten status. Journal of Pathology 2020.  

Fernandes, L*, FitzPatrick MEB*, Roycroft M*,. The role of the future physician: building on shifting sands. Clin Med 2020; 20, 285–289.

FitzPatrick MEB, Clough J, Harvey P, Ratcliffe E. How can gastroenterology training thrive in a post-COVID world? Frontline Gastroenterol 2020.

FitzPatrick MEB and Keshav S. Structure and function of the gastrointestinal tract. In Oxford Textbook of Medicine. 7th Edition. OUP 2020.