During her registrar training, she undertook a travelling fellowship to the Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St Louis to study advances in laparoscopic surgery and advanced peritoneal cancer, having been awarded a regional fellowship. On completion of her training, Ms Addison took a post as a consultant colorectal surgeon at Walsall Manor Hospital. There she developed a joint pelvic floor clinic with a uro-gynaecologist.
In 2018, she took the opportunity to join the colorectal department at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital with a specialist interest in pelvic floor and functional bowel disorders. Ms Addison works closely with the uro-gynacologists at Birmingham Women’s Hospital and runs a multi-disciplinary service for patients with pelvic floor disorders. She has experience in colorectal cancer, benign coloproctology and pelvic floor disorders including rectal prolapse, obstructed defaecation and slow transit constipation.
• Benign coloproctology
• Pelvic floor disorders including rectal prolapse, obstructed defaecation and slow transit constipation