General Surgery

 

Division of Peri Operative  provides general inpatient and outpatient surgical services, and tertiary referrals across six surgery units for: 

• Complex Hepatobiliary and Upper Gastrointestinal

• Colorectal

• Breast

• Oncology/Endocrine.

Weekly outpatient clinics are held for General Surgery, and all the above surgical services. Diagnostic procedures include Colonoscopy, ERCP and Gastroscopy.​

General Surgical Units at Western Health

​There are four Surgical Units covering​g various ​conditions​ across all four campuses.

General & Breast Surgery (GBS)

Head of Unit - ​Meron Pitcher

Ingra Bringmann

Sophie Nightingale

Tony Hyett

Robert Tasevski

Cuong Duong

Mohammad Rafique

Upper Gi & General Surgery (UGIG)

Head of Unit - Val Usatoff

Jullian Choi

Hai Bui

Professor Stephan Chan

Rodney Jacobs

Nezor Houli

Marty Smith

Liang Low

Colorectal General Surgery (CRGS)

Head of Unit - ​Ian Faragher

Jin Cho

Matthew Croxford

Ian Skinner

Paul Simpson

Stephan McLaughlin

General & Endocrine Surgery (GES)

Head of Unit - Bill Fleming

Laura Chin-Lenn

Alvin Cham

Sivasubramaniam Ravindran

Jason Tan

Joanne Chionh​