Nicola Fearnhead

• IMPACT Co-Chief Investigator

Nicola Fearnhead is immediate Past President of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain & Ireland 2019-2020.

She has been a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge since 2006. She studied medicine at Pembroke College, Cambridge and Merton College, Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Surgical training was undertaken in Bristol and Oxford followed by an International Fellowship in Advanced Colorectal Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio during 2005.

Clinical interests include advanced pelvic malignancy and exenteration surgery, transanal endoscopic microsurgery, management of anal cancer including salvage surgery, inflammatory bowel disease and especially perianal Crohn's disease, rectovaginal fistula repair, and functional consequences of treatments on patient quality of life.