Background
- General gastroenterology training: Royal Brisbane and Women’s and Princess Alexandra Hospital.
- Additional post graduate fellowship experience in advanced diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
Additional fellowship
- 3-year fellowship
- 1st year: Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
- 2nd and 3rd year: World renowned H.H Chao Comprehensive Digestive Diseases Center at University of California, where he held a faculty position as a clinical instructor.
Subspecialty interests
- High quality colonoscopy for bowel cancer detection and prevention
- Large and complex colonic, gastric and duodenal polyp endoscopic resection
- Management of iron deficiency anaemia including small bowel e.g. balloon assisted enteroscopy.
- Management of reflux: Barrett’s oesophagus surveillance and ablation
- Management of pancreatic and bile duct diseases with Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) and ERCP
- Bariatric endoscopy e.g. treatment of weight regain or complications related to bariatric surgery
Academia
- Master of Philosophy in diagnostic endoscopy (University of Queensland)
- Senior lecturer at the University of Queensland
- Published widely in areas of reflux, colonic polyps/neoplasia and quality assurance, pancreaticobiliary diseases, novel endoscopic techniques, book chapters and invited authorship for journals and text book chapters with national and international publication.
- Multiple national and international conference presentations:
- American Society of Gastroenterology (ASGE) presidential plenary presentation (largest worldwide gastroenterology conference)
- American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) meeting in Hawaii – The Presidential Award for his research in endoscopyRegular guest speaker to multiple national and international gastroenterology conferences.
- Regular invited guest speaker to multiple national and international gastroenterology conferences
- Reviewer for high impact journals such as World Journal of Gastroenterology, Endoscopy, Cancer Management and Research, Digestive Endoscopy, Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology.
Memberships
- Admitted as a fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology in recognition of significant contribution to the field of general gastroenterology
- Admitted as a fellow of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in recognition of significant contribution to the field of procedural gastroenterology
- Previous Committee member (RBWH) of the Metro North HHS Bariatric Treatment Working Group
- Member of GESA, ACG, ASGE, ABE
- Advisory board member for Hospital and Industry
