Dr Naomi Fersht

Dr Naomi Fersht is a consultant clinical oncologist at University College Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She specialises exclusively in the management of primary and secondary brain and spinal tumours. This involves the use of both conventional and innovative radiotherapy techniques and chemotherapy.

Her special interests are brain oligometastases; meningiomas; pituitary tumours; the management of teenagers and young adults with brain tumours; and advanced radiotherapy techniques including radiosurgery.

She qualified from the University of Cambridge and her specialist training was at the Royal Marsden and University College Hospitals. Naomi's doctoral thesis, supervised by Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse, was in cell cycle checkpoints.