Clinical Associate Professor J. Carsten Ritter

Carsten Ritter is a specialist vascular surgeon, who holds a consultant position at both Fiona Stanley and Fremantle Hospitals. Privately he consults in East Fremantle and operates at St. John of God Subiaco and Hollywood Private Hospitals.

He is the Convenor of CTEC's Core Skills: Vascular Surgery Workshop and a Clinical Associate Professor with Curtin University. He continues to have a research interest and regularly publishes research articles in international surgical journals. Has been invited to speak at several national and international conferences and has convened large conferences himself.

Carsten has German roots and looks back on many years of Australian and international experience. He has the specialist qualification as both, a general and vascular surgeon in Germany and is a fellow of the European Board of Vascular Surgery as well as the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

After graduating from school in the USA and Germany, he studied medicine at Hamburg University in Germany. There he also obtained a doctorate in human genetics. After his completion of training as a general surgeon in Hamburg he moved to the UK, where he specialised in vascular surgery working for prestigious units in Brighton, The University of South Manchester and King's College, London.

In 2011 he emigrated to Australia, where he took the Australian surgical exam to gain full recognition.  As an internationally trained vascular surgeon with over 20 years' experience, Carsten manages all aspects of vascular disease, including venous and arterial pathologies. At Fiona Stanley Hospital, he is a senior consultant and the surgical lead of the multidisciplinary diabetic foot unit, which is recognised nationwide as a centre for excellence for acute diabetic foot complications.  

His special interests include diabetes-related vascular disease, complex infrainguinal interventions and complex aneurysms.