Academic Record

I have a solid Academic background and have worked hard for my achievements. I continue to strive to learn and believe it is important to undertake ongoing professional development to ensure my recommendations are up-to-date.

I maintain this philosophy of hard work and attention to detail in my practice, affording benefit to those whose lives I touch.

2010 - 2022 Certified Continuing Professional Development Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS)

2022 Completed a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Ultrasound, University of Melbourne

2021 Conjoint Committee Recertification in Colonoscopy

2018 Completed a Masters in Public Health with Monash University, Melbourne

2018 Conjoint Committee Recertification in Colonoscopy


2017- Member of the Gastroenterological Society of Australasia

2014 Appointed Senior Lecturer in Surgery, the University of Melbourne

2014 Appointed to the Melbourne Medical School Teaching Academy

2013 Fellow of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand

2013 Conjoint Committee recognition for Endoscopy

2010 Northern Health Excellence Award

2007-2009 Post-Graduate training in Colorectal Surgery

2006 Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

2005 FRACS Part II examination completed

2002-2006 Advanced Surgical Training in General Surgery, New Zealand

2001 Part I OSCE in Surgery

1998 Part I MCQ in Surgery

1996 Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Otago University, New Zealand

1994 Bachelor of Medical Science ( Distinction), Otago University, New Zealand

1992 AFJ Mickle Scholarship for Academic Excellence

1989 Dux, Sacred Heart Girls College, Hamilton, New Zealand