Professor Nicholas Talley is a neurogastroenterologist, has published over 1000 papers in the peer-reviewed literature, and is considered one of the world’s most influential clinician-researchers (H index 122, Scopus 2016). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia (since 2015). He is also a leading medical educator and the author of the highly regarded textbooks Clinical Examination and Examination Medicine. In June 2014, Professor Talley was inaugurated as one of the first 15 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS) and was elected to the Executive of the Academy.

Nicholas was on the consultant staff at Mayo Clinic for 12 years in Rochester, USA, where he held the rank of Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology, and was Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida from 2007-2010. He was the Foundation Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, Nepean Hospital for nearly a decade.

Nicholas is a Senior Staff Specialist and gastroenterologist at John Hunter Hospital and attends clinic and lists on a weekly basis. He currently holds adjunct research appointments as Professor at Mayo Clinic (and Supplemental Consultant), University of North Carolina and the Karolinska Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (and Past President 2014-2016), the Royal College of Physicians (both London and Edinburgh), the American College of Physicians, the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Gastroenterological Association. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.