Dr Crispin Musumba (Gastroenterologist)
- Name
- Dr Crispin Okwiri Musumba
- Occupation
- Gastroenterologist
- Gender
- Male
- Languages Spoken
- African Languages
Dr Crispin Musumba is a gastroenterologist, specialising in in gastroenterology, hepatology, gastroscopy and colonoscopy. His areas of additional training are advanced therapeutic endoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and capsule endoscopy.
He holds a MBChB, MRCP, MRCP (UK) (Gastroenterology), FRACP, FRCPE, PhD.
Dr Musumba completed his medical training (MBChB) at the University of Nairobi, Kenya in 1998, followed by basic medical training and specialist training in gastroenterology, general internal medicine and clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in Liverpool, UK. This training led to the award of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in 2012. Following this Dr Musumba undertook a one-year Endoscopy Training Fellowship in Advanced Endoscopy/Endoscopic Ultrasound at the Westmead Hospital, Sydney. While undergoing specialist training in the UK, Dr Musumba enrolled for a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology/Gastroenterology at the University of Liverpool, under the supervision of Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed (NHS Chair of Pharmacogenetics) and Professor David Mark Pritchard. His thesis was on the genetic predisposition to NSAID-induced peptic ulcer disease, leading to the award of a PhD in April 2016. In April 2015 Dr Musumba joined The Townsville Hospital as a Staff Specialist in Gastroenterology (part-time) and began working privately at Townsville Gastroenterology and Townsville Day Surgery as an associate of Dr Stephen Fairley. Dr Musumba moved to Townsville from Liverpool, UK, in April 2015, together with his wife, Betty, a paediatrician at TTH, and two daughters, Andrea and Jasmine. The family have all enthusiastically embraced all that Townsville and the region has to offer, and have settled well in their new home.
- Hospital Affiliations
- Mater Hospital Pimlico
- Affiliated Clinics
- Townsville Gastroenterology
Practice Locations
QLD
- Mater Hospital Pimlico
- Address
- 21 - 37 Fulham Road
Pimlico QLD 4812
Australia
- Phone
- 07 4727 4444
- Fax
- 07 4725 1034
- Townsville Gastroenterology
- Address
- 163 Kings Road
Pimlico QLD 4812
Australia
- Phone
- 07 4725 2855
- Fax
- 07 4767 7131
