Nicholas Talley

Nicholas Talley is a prominent Australian gastroenterologist, researcher and clinical educator in Australia and the United States.

Talley grew up in Sydney, Australia. He is a first-generation Australian and the son of a Hungarian gastroenterologist, also known as Nicholas Talley OAM FRACP.

Talley studied medicine at the University of New South Wales, graduating in 1979 with first-class honours. He undertook postgraduate training in internal medicine, following in his father's footsteps and becoming a gastroenterologist. Interested in research, Talley received a National Health and Medical Research Council scholarship in 1984.

Talley performed his medical training at Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

In 1987, Talley became an Associate Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. In 1993, Talley returned to Australia to become the Foundation Professor of Medicine at Nepean Hospital in Sydney. In 2002, Talley returned to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to become the Co-Director of the Center for Enteric Neurosciences Translational and Epidemiological Research Program. During this time at the Mayo Clinic, Talley also served as a professor of medicine. In 2006, he also became a professor of epidemiology. In 2007, Talley was appointed the Chairman of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville, Florida.

In 2010, Talley returned to Australia to become Pro Vice Chancellor of Health at the University of Newcastle in Newcastle, New South Wales. Talley is currently serving as Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Health at the same university. . Talley also practices as a gastroenterologist at the John Hunter Hospital in New Lambton Heights, New South Wales.

Talley's research interests are in neurogastroenterology; including the treatment, pathophysiology and epidemiology of functional dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome; he is considered an international authority in the field. Talley also has a strong interest in gastrointestinal complications in diabetes.

Talley has published over 750 research papers. He was a member of the Rome Foundation Board for 17 years (the authority in the classification of all the functional GI disorders). Talley is the editor of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and former editor of the American Journal of Gastroenterology. In 2015 Talley was appointed editor-in-chief of the Medical Journal of Australia.

Talley is the principal investigator on an extensive research portfolio, including a large multi-center National Institute of Health funded randomized controlled trialin functional dyspepsia (UO1). He is also a CI on multiple NIH project grants.

Talley and Dr. Simon O'Connor co-authored Clinical Examination, a widely used textbook of physical examination. Talley and O'Connor wrote this book because many of the existing textbooks omitted useful clinical examination techniques.

Talley also wrote the textbook Internal Medicine: The Essential Facts. He is also the author of a textbook of gastroenterology, now in its third edition.