Dr. Fernyhough joined Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar (WCM-Q) as Assistant Professor of Medicine in March 2015. Before coming to WCM-Q, he was at the University of Otago, Christchurch, Medical School, New Zealand, where he served as a Consultant in Clinical and Laboratory Hematology and a Senior Lecturer and course convenor for the hematology module at the university. He has been involved in small and large scale laboratory and clinical research both locally and internationally and is a strong proponent of practicing and teaching evidence based medicine.

Dr. Fernyhough obtained his medical degree from Nottingham University in the U.K. He subsequently worked in the U.K. and New Zealand while undertaking further training to obtain Fellowship in Internal Medicine and Haematology with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians as well as Fellowship as a Hematological Pathologist with the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia.