GMC Number: 4730288
Regional Chapter: North Western
Biography
Professor Laura Hancock is a Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Chair of Surgery in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at the University of Manchester. She studied medicine at Imperial College School of Medicine, London, where she was a Worshipful Company of Barber Surgeons Scholar. Her surgical training was undertaken in London, Oxford and the Northwest of England and she was the Royal College of Surgeons of England Laparoscopic Colorectal Fellow at the John Goligher Colorectal Surgery Unit, Leeds, in 2015.
Professor Hancock has a specialist clinical and academic interest in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and is the surgical lead for IBD in Manchester. She was a Royal College of Surgeons of England Research Fellow in Oxford in 2004 with a thesis investigating the genetic characteristics of colonic Crohn’s disease, under the supervision of Professor Sir Neil Mortensen and Professor Derek Jewell. She was the Pathological Society Surgical Travelling Fellow to Toronto in 2006.
She is Co-chief Investigator of the NIHR MEErKAT Trial, investigating different anastomotic techniques in reducing recurrence in Crohn's disease, and the Principle Investigator of multiple NIHR portfolio studies. She supervises PhD students at the University of Manchester, studying the clinical and molecular basis of IBD.
Professor Hancock is the Honorary Secretary of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) and the immediate past Chair of Education and Training. She has been an elected member of the ACPGBI Executive and Council since 2019. She serves as an Associate Editor of Clinics in Colorectal Surgery and is on the Editorial Board of Colorectal Disease.
She was honoured to be nominated as one of the leading inspiring and influential female surgeons in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Women in Surgery Network in 2021.