Professional background

Dr Fisher is a consultant and clinical lead of adolescent and young adult rheumatology at UCLH and an honorary consultant in adolescent rheumatology at Great Ormond Street Hospital where she leads the rheumatology transition service.

Dr Fisher trained in Cardiff before moving to London to complete her clinical training in rheumatology. She was a research fellow in the Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology before taking up her consultant post at UCLH. During her PhD, she studied the pathogenesis of the enthesitis related arthritis subtype of JIA (juvenile spondyloarthritis).

Research interests

  • Enthesitis related arthritis/ juvenile spondyloarthritis
  • Long-term outcomes in juvenile-onset rheumatic disease
  • Developmentally appropriate healthcare

Publications

Nott K, Nott V, Lever E, Deakin C, Galloway J, Fisher C, Compeyrot-Lacassagne S Pediatric Sarcoidosis: Retrospective Analysis of Biopsy-proven Patients J Rheumatol. 2022 Aug 15;jrheum.220164

Bouraoui A, Fisher C, Mavrommatis S, Newman P, Williamson L, Meyer S, Gupta J, Higgs F, Emkes L, Begum S, Leandro M, Ciurtin C, Mcdowell A, Sen D The need for a mindset shift and behavioural change in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic Future Healthc J. 2022 Jul;9(Suppl 2):60-61

Hookham L, Fisher C, Manson J, Morgan M, O'Hara G, Riley P, Tattersall RS, Goodman AL Understanding the diagnosis and management of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults (MIS-A) in the UK: results of a national Delphi process. Clin Med (Lond). 2022 May;22(3):266-270.

Fisher C, Ciurtin C, Leandro M, Sen D, Wedderburn LR. Similarities and Differences Between Juvenile and Adult Spondyloarthropathies. Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 May 31;8:681621

Choida V, Hall-Craggs M, Jebson BR, Fisher C, Leandro M, Wedderburn LR, Ciurtin C. Biomarkers of Response to Biologic Therapy in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. Front Pharmacol. 2021 Feb 2;11:635823.

Bray TJP, Sakai N, Dudek A, Fisher C, Rajesparan K, Lopes A, Ciurtin C, Sen D, Bainbridge A, Hall-Craggs MA. Histographic analysis of oedema and fat in inflamed bone marrow based on quantitative MRI. Eur Radiol. 2020 Sep;30(9):5099-5109

Bray TJP, Lopes A, Fisher C, Ciurtin C, Sen D, Hall-Craggs MA. Sacroiliac Joint Ankylosis In Young Spondyloarthritis Patients Receiving Biologic Therapy: Observation of Serial MRI scans. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2018 Oct 8. doi: 10.1002/art.40750

Bray TJP, Vendhan K, Ambrose N, Atkinson D, Punwani S, Fisher C, Sen D, Ioannou Y, Hall-Craggs MA. Diffusion-weighted imaging is a sensitive biomarker of response to biologic therapy in enthesitis-related arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2017 Mar 1;56(3):399-407.

Wu Q, Chaplin H, Ambrose N, Sen D, Leandro MJ, Wing C, Daly N, Webb K, Fisher C, Suffield L, Josephs F, Pilkington C, Eleftheriou D, Al-Obaidi M, Compeyrot-Lacassagne S, Wedderburn LR, Ioannou Y. Juvenile arthritis disease activity score is a better reflector of active disease than the disease activity score 28 in adults with polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2016 Mar;75(3):635-6.

Vendhan K, Bray TJ, Atkinson D, Punwani S, Fisher C, Sen D, Ioannou Y, Hall-Craggs MA. A diffusion-based quantification technique for assessment of sacroiliitis in adolescents with enthesitis-related arthritis. Br J Radiol. 2016;89(1059)

Vendhan K, Sen D, Fisher C, Ioannou Y, Hall-Craggs M. Inflammatory Changes of the Lumbar Spine in Children and Adolescents With Enthesitis-Related Arthritis: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings. Arthritis Care & Research Volume 66, Issue 1, pages 40–46, January 2014

Fisher C, Sen D. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis: in adolescence and beyond. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, Vol. 73, Iss. 10, 09 Oct 2012, pp 564 – 570

Fisher C, Ioannou Y, Hall-Craggs M, Sen D. Enthesitis-Related Arthritis; a New Era of Understanding. Ann Paediatr Rheum. 2012; 1(1): 8-16

Fisher C, Agrawal S, Wong WM, Fahie-Wilson M, Dasgupta B. Clinical observations on the significance of raised cardiac troponin-T in patients with myositis of varying etiologies seen in rheumatology practice. Clin Rheumatol. 2010 Oct;29(10):1107-11

Newton SM, Mackie SL, Martineau AR, Wilkinson KA, Kampmann B, Fisher C, Dutta S, Levin M, Wilkinson RJ, Pasvol G Reduction of chemokine secretion in response to mycobacteria in infliximab-treated patients. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2008 Mar;15(3):506-12

Garringer HJ, Fisher C, Larsson TE, Davis SI, Koller DL, Cullen MJ, Draman MS, Conlon N, Jain A, Fedarko NS, Dasgupta B, White KE The role of mutant UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosamine-polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 3 in regulating serum intact fibroblast growth factor 23 and matrix extracellular phosphoglycoprotein J. Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006 Oct;91(10):4037-42