Rate My Professor Frank Frizelle

Professor Frizelle's research specializations encompass the aetiology of sporadic colorectal cancer including the microbiome and specific bacteria, epidemiology of early-onset colorectal cancer and factors such as microplastics, diagnosis, management, and outcomes of colorectal cancer, diverticular disease, and medical-legal and publication issues in surgery. He has produced over 500 peer-reviewed publications and more than 50 book chapters, garnering over 14,000 citations with an H-index exceeding 60, and delivered more than 300 presentations at national and international meetings. Since 2002, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the New Zealand Medical Journal. He leads as President of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand, Chair of the Christchurch Cancer Foundation and Movember's ANZ Prostate Cancer Register, medical advisor to Bowel Cancer New Zealand, and deputy chair of the ANZ binational bowel cancer register. Notable awards include the Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in 2022 for services to health, the New Zealand Medical Association Chairman’s Award in 2018, and an honorary fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2018.