Female Colorectal and General Surgeon, Senior Lecturer in Surgery,
the University of Melbourne.
I combine technical expertise with compassion and an ability to communicate
in a way rarely seen in a surgeon. I have a clinical interest in peri-operative
care and an holistic approach to post-operative recovery.
I trained in New Zealand and became a Fellow of the Royal Australian
College of Surgeons (RACS) in 2007 in General Surgery. After my Fellowship
I undertook specialty training in Colorectal Surgery at Guys and St Thomas’s
and UCLH, London followed by Fremantle Hospital, WA and the Austin,
Melbourne (where I was the Colorectal Fellow in 2009) with the Colorectal
Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ).
I have been instrumental in design of the current General Surgical curriculum
for the University of Melbourne and teach medical students at the Northern
Centre for Health, Education and Research. My research interests include
improving the pathway prior to diagnosis of colorectal cancer, measuring and
improving surgical standards, service optimisation and efficiency, optimising
psychology and physiology to improve outcome in colorectal surgery and
targeted community-based strategies to improve cancer outcomes. I am
currently on the working party for updating the NHMRC Guidelines for
Colorectal Cancer and Lead Author for the Chapter on Adenoma Surveillance
in the update for the NHMRC Colonoscopy Guidelines.