Convenors

Associate Professor Mo Ballal is a highly trained Upper Gastrointestinal and Bariatric surgeon, having completed his training under some of the world’s leaders in both General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery. Associate Professor Ballal embarked on his journey to become a surgeon at the prestigious Hacettepe School of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey. Having completed his medical degree in 1997, he was offered the opportunity to train as a general surgeon in Liverpool – UK, in the highly competitive and world-renowned general surgery program. Associate Professor Ballal successfully completed his general surgery training and was admitted to the United Kingdom’s governing body as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons – Edinburgh in 2009.

Following his qualification in General Surgery, he further enhanced his skills by relocating to Perth, Western Australia to complete additional surgical training in the field of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery with Professor David Fletcher, and his team including Mr Krishna Epari and Mr Alan Thomas. Associate Professor Ballal completed this intensive training in 2012 and was subsequently admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS) as a specialist in Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery.

Due to highly specialised skills, Associate Professor Ballal was offered the opportunity to join the Fremantle Hospital Upper GI Unit as a consultant surgeon and continues to hold this position today at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Murdoch, Western Australia.

He combines his love for learning by maintaining his public appointment, conducting research in conjunction with universities and honing and teaching future general surgeons their skills. He combines this with his private practice at Upper GI West, located in the Wexford Medical Centre, Murdoch, Western Australia.

Associate Professor Ballal is fluent in Turkish, Arabic and English.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Australia and New Zealand Gastric and Oesophageal Surgery ANZGOSA
• Australia and New Zealand Hepatic, Pancreatic and Biliary Association Inc ANZHPBA
• The International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA)
• Asian-Pacific Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association (A-PHPBA)
• The International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus (ISDE)
• Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (AUGIS)
• International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO)
• British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS)
• Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
• European Association of Endoscopic Surgery

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS (PUBLIC HOSPITAL)

• Associate Professor – School of Surgery, University of Western Australia, Perth (2011 – Present)
• Consultant Upper GI/HPB and General Surgeon – Fremantle and Kaleeya Hospitals (2011 – 2015)
• Consultant Upper GI/HPB and General Surgeon – Fiona Stanley Hospital (2015 – Present)

PRIVATE HOSPITAL (VISITING RIGHTS)

• SJOG Hospital, Murdoch

Professor Krishna Boddu is currently working as senior consultant in the Department of Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine at Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia. He holds administrative position as Director of Regional Anaesthesia. He is also an adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology of McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Sciences at Houston, Texas, USA

The Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, recognized his talent in teaching early in his career and awarded him Golden Apple Seed award for Excellence in Teaching.  He received formal training to be awarded the title of a Teaching Scholar at the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

As a Professor of Anesthesiology & Head of Acute Pain & Regional Anesthesia, Professor Boddu introduced acute pain service with a goal to improve functionality at Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston.  Professor Boddu also worked as Director of Acute Pain and Regional Anesthesia at MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC), Houston and established the Regional Anesthesia Service and enhanced Acute Pain Service which received national and international recognition. He contributed to the development of electronic databases and electronic medical records for acute pain at University of Washington, Seattle, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Memorial Hermann Hospitals, Houston, Texas.

In an effort to teach and promote the use of ultrasound and continuous regional anesthesia by insertion of catheters (a superior method for providing regional anesthesia), he developed multi-screen, multi-media hands on regional anesthesia workshop which was received very well by anesthesiologists and soon it became the most popular regional anesthesia workshop. He also introduced the concept of Acute Pain Nurse Expertise at Point of Care by developing Path to Pain Championship program, and trained several hundred nurses. He conducted several pain and regional anaesthesia workshops across the world. He also published original articles in the field of regional anesthesia and acute pain.

In Australia, he introduced regional anaesthesia and acute pain workshops for rural doctors in collaboration with Rural Health West. He was member of several committees in the hospital, and was also on the board of several national and international committees. He was also on editorial board for journals in the field of pain and regional anesthesia.

Throughout his career, Professor Boddu has lectured extensively and taught numerous advanced regional anesthesia and acute pain management courses to residents and faculty, locally, nationally and internationally. Professor Boddu has contributed significantly to clinical care, education, research and administration.  The introduction of new structured programs such as acute pain, regional anesthesia service, and development of a multiscreen multi-media ultrasound guided regional anesthesia teaching structure, Path to Pain championship for nurses are some of his significant achievements.

Dr Carragher has been working in the Perth Hills region for 35 years. He has extensive experience in the diagnosis and management of skin cancer and is a founder of the Kalamunda Skin Clinic. Dr Carragher performs all aspects of skin cancer surgery including skin grafts and flaps at the dedicated facility in Kalamunda. He has completed several courses in skin cancer diagnosis and management, including the certificate in Skin Cancer through the University of Queensland.

Dr John Croser is a retired Orthopaedic surgeon living in Perth. He has previously worked as Head of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Joondalup Health Campus and Director of Orthopaedic Trauma at Royal Perth Hospital. Dr Croser is a Life Member of the Royal Flying Doctor Service having served as a Councillor, Federal representative and President of the Eastern Goldfields Section. He was a member of the working party and inaugural Board of Western Operations.

In retirement Dr Croser has continued a commitment to surgical education at a local, national and international level through the Swiss AO Foundation where he has served as the Australian representative on the Board of Trustees.  He has directed and participated in fracture management courses in Australia and Overseas and, as Chairman of the AO Socio-Economic committee and has directed courses on fracture management in developing countries.

Professor Stephen Dunjey is a Specialist in Emergency Medicine.  Awarded his FACEM in 1991, Professor Dunjey completed his subspecialty training in 2007, earning a Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound.  

Professor Dunjey has worked at Royal Perth Hospital for almost 30 years. He is a Consultant with the RPH Emergency Department and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at St John of God Murdoch Hospital.  He has also worked as a specialist at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and at the King Khaled Hospital in Jedda, Saudi Arabia.  Professor Dunjey was also a Consultant at King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women from 2004-2016.

He has a special interest in the education of current and upcoming health professionals. In 2019 Professor Dunjey's contributions and service to the field of emergency medicine were recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine in the areas of education and training.

Professor Dunjey is Co-Convenor of CTEC's Critical Care Procedures Workshop.

Dr Nick Enzor is a Consultant Anaesthetist and the Convenor of CTEC's February 2023 JDocs: Emergency Airways workshop.

Dr Finlayson graduated from the University of Western Australia in 2002 and went on to complete his internship and resident training at Royal Perth Hospital. He then trained in general surgery, completing his basic and advanced training through the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons at various hospitals throughout Perth and regional Western Australia.

Dr Finlayson followed his general surgery training with a three year fellowship specialising in colorectal surgery. This started with 12 months at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital where he has now return as a consultant surgeon. He then completed the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand post fellowship training program. This program is the only recognised colorectal training program in Australia and one of the best colorectal training programs worldwide. Through this program he trained at Royal Melbourne Hospital where he enhanced his laparoscopic skills and learnt techniques such as sacral nerve stimulation. As one of the major trauma hospitals in Victoria, he also gained valuable experience in the management of severe trauma. He also spent 12 months at North Shore Hospital in Auckland, servicing the largest District Health Board throughout the country. As the regional referral centre for recurrent rectal cancer, he gained valuable exposure to complex pelvic surgery.

On return to Perth he has been appointed as a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital with additional public appointments at Osborne Park Hospital. He also joins the team at Perth Colorectal Surgery with private appointments and operating at Hollywood Private Hospital.

Dr Finlayson has interests in minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery of the colon and rectum as well as complex pelvic surgery. He is a member of the multidisciplinary cancer teams of both Hollywood and Sir Charles Gairdner hospitals in order to provide a comprehensive approach to cancer care. He also has an interest in surgery for inflammatory bowel disease, perianal disease including fistulas and haemorrhoids, as well as pelvic floor surgery including prolapse repair. Dr Finlayson also offers a comprehensive general surgical service including laparoscopic hernia and gallbladder surgery.

Throughout his medical career, Dr Finlayson has represented his peers at various levels. As a medical student he was heavily involved with the WA Medical Students Society and also coordinated a high school student health promotion program (Dr YES project). He was President of the Royal Perth Hospital Resident Medical Officers' Society and representative on the Postgraduate Medical Education Council of WA and the RPH Clinical Staff Association. Dr Finlayson also represented his fellow trainees on the Board in General Surgery.

He was awarded the status of CTEC Gold Convenor for his contributions to CTEC's training programs in colorectal surgery.

Dr Karim Ghanim specialises in breast cancer surgery, oncoplastic and reconstructive surgery.  Completing subspecialty fellowship training in New South Wales, he returned to Perth with world-class experience in the latest Breast/Oncology and minimally invasive surgical techniques.  

Dr Ghanim is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, with extensive training in all fields of General Surgery.  He completed his advanced training in General Surgery in Perth in 2008.  In 2009, he was appointed as a Breast and General Surgeon at Royal Perth Hospital.  He then went for further advanced training in General Surgery at Wollongong Hospital which included Breast/Oncology and Laparoscopic Surgery, melanoma and skin cancer as well as thyroid surgery.

Dr Ghanim dedicated his practice and training to establish a full service to a Breast and Oncology Surgery knowing this focus of minimally invasive surgery will lead to the best outcomes for his patients.  This approach extends to sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast and melanoma surgery and laparoscopic surgery.  His subspecialty training focused on the latest breast conserving techniques as well as on aesthetic breast surgery.

Professional memberships:

• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
• Royal Australian College of Surgeons/Surgical Oncology section
• Breast Surgeon of Australia and New Zealand Society
• Academy of Surgical Educators
• Accredited Diagnostic Imaging Service. 

Dr Owen Gray is a Perth based Anaesthetist and the Convenor of CTEC's December 2021 JDocs:  Emergency Airways Workshop. 

Professor Hamdorf graduated from The University of Western Australia’s Medical School and soon after undertook studies contributory to a Doctor of Philosophy in Surgery. He completed surgical training and was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1993.

Surgical training was undertaken through Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Royal Perth Hospital and Fremantle Hospital. Post Fellowship training in upper gastrointestinal surgery was undertaken at the University of New South Wales with clinical privileges at the Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals.

Academic interests include management of upper gastrointestinal malignancies as well as more recently a prominent interest in surgical education, in particular skills training.

Professor Hamdorf has an active involvement in the affairs of Royal Australian College of Surgeons (RACS).  He has been Director of CTEC since 2010, and is a past Head of the School of Surgery at The University of Western Australia.  Professor Hamdorf is a Consultant General Surgeon and has designed and lead numerous courses and workshops at CTEC in general and bariatric surgery, including its Core Skills: Advanced Bariatric and Roux-en-Y Laparoscopic Surgery workshop.

In 2019 Professor Hamdorf's significant service to medical education, and to medicine, in the field of bariatric surgery was recognised when he was appointed as a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. 

Dr Joe Hockley is a Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon with over 10 years of clinical experience in the field. He graduated medicine from the University of Newcastle in 2002 and went on to complete his FRACS – Vascular, from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2014. His clinical training included positions at RPA Hospital Sydney, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Royal Perth Hospital, The Royal Infirmary Edinburgh and The Princess Alexandra Hospital Brisbane.

Dr Hockley is currently a Consultant Vascular and Endovascular surgeon and Supervisor of Training at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and consults privately at the Hollywood Specialist Centre. He is accredited at Hollywood Private Hospital, St John of God, Subiaco and The Mount Hospitals. He provides the Vascular Surgery service to Perth Children’s Hospital and King Edwards Memorial Hospital.

He has extensive experience and an interest in the minimally invasive (endovascular) treatment of complex aortic and peripheral vascular disease, along with a particular interest in foot ulcers and diabetic feet. He is also very experienced in the treatment of Thoracic Outlet syndrome.

Dr Hockley provides comprehensive care for all venous disorders. He has extensive experience in endovenous and open management of venous disease as well as endovascular management of chronic pelvic venous disease.

He is a member of the State Sarcoma Service based at SCGH and performs most of the major arterial and venous reconstructions for soft-tissue tumours. He also recently completed a mini-fellowship in Paediatric Vascular Surgery at Great Ormond St Hospital, London and works at Perth Children’s Hospital.

Dr Hockley is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences and heavily involved in vascular research at the Heart Vascular Research Institute at the Harry Perkin’s Institute. He is also an Adjunct Clinical Senior Lecturer at Curtin University and teaches and examines medical students.

Clinical interests include:

• Foot ulcer / Peripheral Arterial Disease management
• Open and Endovascular
• Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection Management
• Open and Endovascular
• Treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome
• Venous disease
• Open and Endovenous
• Renal access surgery
• Extracranial carotid artery disease

Dr Robyn Leake is a gynaecologist who is the Convenor of CTEC's Cutting Edge: Proceduralist Obstetrics and Gynaecological Skills Workshop, and Co-Convenor of The Anatomy of Complications Workshop, which is held at CTEC several times each year.  Dr Leake graduated from The University of Western Australia in 1993 and trained in obstetrics and gynaecology in Western Australia and Victoria.  She has been involved in The Anatomy of Complications Workshop since its inception in 2000 and became Co-Director in 2014.  She practices gynaecology at the Hollywood Medical Centre and at King Edward Memorial Hospital.  She is also the visiting gynaecologist to the Northern Goldfields Region.

In 2011 Professor Yee Leung was appointed the inaugural Professor in Gynaecologic Oncology in Western Australia. He is a Professor with the School of Women’s and Infant’s Health at The University of Western Australia.   Professor Leung is the Head of Department of the Western Australian Gynaecologic Cancer Service and Director of Surgical Education at King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women.

He is actively involved in RANZCOG serving as College Councillor, on the Gynaecologic Oncology Subspecialty Committee as Chair in 2006-2008 and 2012-2014, WA Regional Committee, Examiner for Gynaecologic Oncology, Education Strategy Committee, Education and Assessment Committee, Women's Health Committee, Honours Committee, Continuing Professional Development Committee and Program Director for the WA Gynaecologic Oncology Fellowship Training Program.

His research interest includes Gynaecologic Oncology clinical trials, basic and epidemiologic research. He obtained ethical approval to commence a gynaecologic cancer biospecimen bank for the Western Australian Gynaecologic Cancer Service in 2013, and successfully obtained a $1.25 million grant from the Cancer Research Trust for the Western Australian Gynaecologic Cancer Research Initiative.

Professor Leung is an enthusiastic teacher and has a special interest in teaching in the operating room. He was the developer and facilitator of the Multidisciplinary Laparoscopy Group meetings in WA and the Perth Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Masterclass. He actively promotes the “rules” that improve the execution of a surgical skill

Clinical Associate Professor Linjun Mou is a Consultant Surgeon specialising in Transplant Surgery (liver and kidney), Hepatobiliary Surgery and General Surgery.  He is affiliated with the WA Liver and Kidney Surgical Transplant Service at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.  He practices privately at The Liver Centre WA.

Professor Mou was trained at one of the top university hospitals in China.  He moved to Perth in 2009 as a transplant fellow.  He started his consultant position at SCGH in 2014 and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2016.  In addition, he obtained a diploma in laparoscopic surgery from the University of Strasbourg in France, as well as a visiting fellowship to UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles.)

Professor Mou specialises in liver, gallbladder, spleen, hernia and other general surgeries including benign and malignant liver diseases, complicated liver surgeries and revision of gallbladder surgeries.  He performs minimally invasive surgery for most of these cases.  He received robotic surgery certification in 2015.

Dr Tuan Pham is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He completed his Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Fellowship in 2000 and a number of post-graduate Fellowships in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery from 2001-2003.  

Currently Dr Pham is in private practice as Medical Director of Perth Facial Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery and Churchill Day Surgery. He is also a Consultant Surgeon at Royal Perth Hospital and Fiona Stanley Hospital in the Department of Otolaryngology Head Neck Surgery.

Dr Pham practices a full scope of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Head and Neck Oncology Surgery and Aesthetic Surgery. His primary interest is Rhinoplasty, Facial Rejuvenation Surgery, Facelift, Blepharoplasty, Otoplasty and Skin Cancer Surgery and Reconstruction of the Face and Neck.

Dr Pham is currently the Vice President and due to be President of the International Federation of Facial Plastic Surgery Societies (IFFPSS) in October 2016 and he is a member of the IFFPSS Executive Committee.

He is a Consultant Surgeon at:
Hollywood Private Hospital

St John of God Hospital (Subiaco)
Churchill Day Surgery
Subiaco Private Hospital
Royal Perth Hospital

Fiona Stanley Hospital

Dr Jeremy Rawlins is a fully qualified and accredited Specialist Plastic Surgeon working in Perth, Western Australia.   He has specialist plastic surgery fellowships from the UK (FRCS(Plast)) and Australia (FRACS(Plast)) – both obtained following higher surgical training and examinations in the UK and Australia. He is an AHPRA Specialist Plastic Surgeon and is on the GMC Specialist Register for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. He is a full member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and the British Association of Plastic Surgeons (BAPRAS).

Dr Rawlins undertook undergraduate and postgraduate training in plastic surgery in the UK and Australia.  Prior to specialist training he was granted Master of Philosophy from the University of Bradford for his research into burn scars.  He undertook his specialist plastic surgery training in hospitals throughout Yorkshire, with fellowships in France, the USA and Australia. Dr Rawlins works as a specialist plastic surgeon at Royal Perth Hospital, Fiona Stanley Hospital, and at private clinics and hospitals across the Perth metro area.  He continues to be involved in research and audit, surgical education and burns management training.

He has a busy public and private practice.  His specialist interest areas include Plastic Surgery Trauma and Burns  – an area of plastic surgery he has been involved in since his undergraduate days); Skin cancer (including Melanoma); Head and neck cancer; Body contouring; Scar improvement; and Cosmetic surgery.  Dr Rawlins has a particular interest in reconstructive microsurgery and the use of ‘free flaps’ and ‘perforator flaps’ in his plastic surgery practice.

Dr Rawlins is a Platinum Convenor of CTEC's Core Skills: Plastics Workshop.

Dr John Rosser Davies is a rural General Practitioner, the Co-Convenor of CTEC's 2022 The Cutting Edge: Practical ED Skills workshop and a long standing faculty member for a number of CTEC's workshops. Dr Davies has been instrumental in many health initiatives in the rural community of Manjimup, Western Australia.  In 2017 his contributions to rural WA were honoured with the Rural Health West Award for Above and Beyond - Community First.  The Award recognised his contributions to the PROBE initiative to encourage people to support new drivers gaining more experience behind the wheel, the Arch to Arch Fun Run, and the RISK Program to show adolescents the impact of drug and alcohol on driving ability.  

Dr Aroosha Safari is a final year Trainee in General Surgery. She recently successfully completed her Fellowship Examination with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS). She plans to further sub-specialise in Breast and Oncoplastic Surgery and will shortly be commencing an exciting Academic Fellowship with OncoRes Medical and Professor Christobel Saunders in this field. 

Dr Safari has been heavily involved with clinical education and trainee advocacy throughout her training. She was elected by her peers to serve as the WA Trainee Representative for all nine RACS surgical specialities for a two year term. Thereafter, she was selected by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Training Association (RACSTA) to serve within their executive committee as the Support and Advocacy officer for Australia and New Zealand. During her time with RACSTA she’s been involved with multiple working groups tackling parental leave, flexible training, trainees in financial hardship, women in surgery, indigenous health and the trainee feedback survey which highlights challenges in surgical training. 

Dr Safari has pursued roles in medical education since she completed her Medical Degree in 2011 in United Kingdom. This started by securing competitive Clinical Educator roles as a junior doctor with Queen’s University in Belfast and University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. It has continued here in Perth within CTEC as a facilitator and convenor of multiple surgical courses. She also enjoys dedicating her time to her roles as a surgical mentor and an OSCE examiner for UWA. 

Dr Safari is passionate about teaching clinical and surgical skills, with the hope of instilling good bedside manner, safe technical skills and holistic clinical decision making. Her desire to mentor and teach is fuelled by the thrill of watching her juniors thrive in all clinical settings, inside and outside of the operating theatre. 

Dr Susan Sharpe is an Emergency Medicine consultant and a Clinical Skills teacher at the Medical School at Notre Dame University in Fremantle.  She also teaches on the JDocs: Emergency Procedures workshop at CTEC, and in Adult and Paediatric Advanced Life Support courses nationally.

Susan has also served in the Royal Australian Navy as a doctor in the Persian Gulf and at the Submarine and Underwater Medicine Unit in Western Australia, as well as in humanitarian work in Samoa and Tonga following the tsunami in 2009.  As well as medical teaching, she has interests in diving and hyperbaric medicine and disaster medicine. 

Clinical Associate Professor Sue Taylor is an experienced general surgeon with a special interest in Hernias and specialises in Bariatric Surgery.

Clinical Associate Professor Sue Taylor trained in Perth at Sir Charles Gairdner, Osborne Park, Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals in General Surgery. After gaining Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2001, she continued to serve the public hospital system, participating in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision. She went on to complete a post fellowship training at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee with the father of laparoscopic surgery in the UK, Sir Professor Alfred Cuschieri.

She brings home broad experience in laparoscopic surgery and also in postgraduate and post-fellowship teaching skills. She established Western Surgical Health at Perth’s Hollywood Hospital with Professor Jeff Hamdorf in 2008 and consults with private and public patients. She has extensive experience with general surgery and has a special interest in laparoscopic surgery, including Hernia repairs, Appendicectomies and in Bariatric Surgery including adjustable Gastric Banding, Sleeve Gastrectomy and Hiatus Hernia repairs.

Her position as Head of Department at Osborne Park Hospital Surgical Services has activated other interests, such as sustainability in healthcare and breaking down the barriers between preventative, primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare.

In addition to her work in General and Bariatric surgery, she teaches and mentors our medical students, junior medical staff and trainees, both in the hospital system and at UWA, particularly through CTEC and RACS courses.

Professor Marina Wallace is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Perth's Fiona Stanley and Fremantle Hospitals.  Prior to becoming a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon in 2001 in the UK she completed her specialist training at St Mark’s Hospital for Colorectal Diseases in London and was successful in gaining a Master's degree looking at chemoprevention in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, sponsored by the National Institute of Health of USA and the ICRF in London, with the research undertaken at St Mark’s Hospital.

Marina emigrated to Australia in 2007 to take up an academic post at UWA and as a Consultant Colorectal at Fremantle Hospital. She was one of the first colorectal surgeons to operate at Fiona Stanley Hospital before it fully opened in 2015.

Marina is a fully trained laparoscopic surgeon who specialises in the management of complex colorectal conditions including both malignant and benign disease. She has a special interest in family cancer syndromes and runs one of two multidisciplinary clinics for patients with inherited bowel conditions in Western Australia. She is the lead colorectal clinician at FSH and also the chair of the colorectal cancer MDT.

Clinical Associate Professor Dieter Weber is a Trauma and General Surgeon at Royal Perth Hospital and a CTEC Platinum Convenor. He convenes CTEC's The Cutting Edge: Emergency Procedures workshop.