Nuha Yassin

Nuha Yassin is a consultant colorectal surgeon at University Hospitals Birmingham and took up the role in April 2023. She is an associate clinical professor at the University of Birmingham. Her clinical and research interests are in colorectal cancer and IBD with a focus on technology, minimally invasive and robotic surgical techniques. She is the lead for robotic colorectal surgery at her new trust and the first female national proctor for robotic colorectal surgery in the UK. She was previously on the staff of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust from September 2018 to March 2023. She was born in the Sudan and spent some of her childhood there before being brought up in London. She qualified in Medicine from the University of Manchester in 2003, trained in the North West, Yorkshire and West Midlands regions. Her postgraduate research experience was based at St Mark's Hospital in London where she obtained her PhD from Imperial College, London. Her research into Crohn's anal fistulae has won several prestigious awards and was short-listed for the Patey prize and the John of Arderne medal. Her research also won the prestigious Royal College of Surgeons of England Research Fellowship, and the inaugural Professor John Nicholls award for best research project at St Mark's Hospital in 2014. Nuha was awarded the ACPGBI (Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland) travelling fellowship, the Richard Cobb fellowship (West Midlands region) and the ESCP (European Society of Coloproctology) short fellowship, where she undertook some periods of surgical training at high profile European centres (Amsterdam, Milan and Barcelona). She was The Dukes' Club education and training representative for several years and the first surgical trainee to join the Young-ECCO (European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation) committee, which after three years of membership, she chaired for one year.

As an early years consultant, Nuha developed surgical research at her previous trust and after a period of being a successful principal investigator for collaborative research studies, she was awarded an NIHR clinical research scholarship, based at Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, with the aim of developing as a future chief investigator for surgical research studies. Nuha was the West Midlands regional representative for the ASGBI and an RCS England RSPA for the region prior to taking up a position of Director of Inclusivity at the ASGBI (2021- 2024). Miss Yassin is a Council member at RCS England since her election in 2021. She was the first early years consultant to be appointed to Council. She is the chair of Future of Surgery (FoS) as well as Robotics and Digital surgery (RADAR) groups. She is passionate about all aspects of her work and personal life and truly believes that everyone has something amazing to contribute if given the chance.