Principal and Consultant to Adelaide Vascular - Vascular Diagnostic and Ultrasound Service. 7 service locations throughout metropolitan and country South Australia

Company in charge of running annual Adelaide Vascular Trials course - annual pre Fellowship examination preparation course for vascular surgery

In hospital consulting service, elective and emergency operating (endovascular and open vascular surgery)

Consultant vascular surgeon providing outpatient, consulting and operative surgery (elective and emergency) in endovascular and open vascular surgery

As part of board providing oversight of vascular training under the auspices of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons

Subcommittee Chairman - ANZSVS Response to MBS Review November 2015 to March 2018

The value of individual surgical procedures is currently being defined in a bid torationalise the health dollar. The time honoured tools of peer review and audits of activityand outcome are now challenged by an economic value metric which surgeons havepreviously not had to contend with. Despite this, the race to develop – and to implement –new technologies in surgical practice shows no signs of slowing down. Whilst surgeonsare regularly challenged to justify the cost of… Show more The value of individual surgical procedures is currently being defined in a bid torationalise the health dollar. The time honoured tools of peer review and audits of activityand outcome are now challenged by an economic value metric which surgeons havepreviously not had to contend with. Despite this, the race to develop – and to implement –new technologies in surgical practice shows no signs of slowing down. Whilst surgeonsare regularly challenged to justify the cost of adopting these new technologies ineveryday practice, questions are also presently asked about the validity and valueof procedures surgeons have performed for many years.The future of surgery is likely to be defined by how we address these particularchallenges of the present. It is this future – safe and sustainable – that the ASC 2017in Adelaide will address, and attempt to define, over the course of the Congress.The scientific program and plenary sessions have been constructed by the convenersto address the theme of the Congress – “Safe and Sustainable – the Future of Surgery?”Whilst there will be the expected high standard of scientific discourse in the variousspeciality sections, the plenaries will address the questions of sustainability of modernsurgery, safety and efficacy evaluation of evolving technologies and the crucial questionof audit and quality assurance that will be required to take surgery into a safe andsustainable future. Show less

Elected board member and Chairman State Committee of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons