DR Brendan Ryan.

• General, Laparoscopic & Transplant Surgeon
• Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
• Staff Specialist Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Westmead Hospital.

Dr Ryan is currently a staff specialist surgeon at Westmead Hospital, specializing in organ transplantation, dialysis access surgery and laparoscopic general surgery.He also works as a consultant surgeon at Norwest Private, Westmead Private and Campbelltown Private Hospitals.

Dr Ryan is a medical graduate of Monash University, Melbourne and became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2003. He spent 2 years working overseas in the National Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Unit in Dublin, Ireland and returned in 2006 to take up his transplant surgical appointment at Westmead Hospital.

Dr Ryan has a special interest in laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery, in particular laparoscopic hernia repairs, cholecystectomy (gallbladder), & fundoplication (antireflux surgery) .He performs laparoscopic gastric banding separately through his affiliation with the Australian Institute of Weight Control.

Dr Ryan is involved in continual education in his surgical field and committed to the process of audit review in surgical practice.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HENRY PLEASS

Professor Henry Pleass studied medicine as an undergraduate at the University of Newcastle Upon-Tyne, England and trained in general and transplantation surgery in the North East of England, Edinburgh Scotland and Sydney Australia. He has published and presented widely on transplantation and has an MD investigating Xenotransplantation. He is a conjoint associate professor within the University of Sydney. His specialty interests are liver and pancreatic surgery in addition to laparoscopic surgery. He is a senior staff specialist surgeon at Westmead Hospital and the surgical head of The Australian National Pancreas Transplant Program based there. In addition he is a VMO surgeon at Westmead Private Hospital and a VMO liver transplant surgeon at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Research Interests:

• Professor Pleass has strong interest in liver and pancreatic surgery as well as laparoscopic surgery

DR Vincent Lam.

Dr. Lam graduated MBBS from University of Sydney in 1998 and completed general surgical training in Sydney in 2005.

In 2006-2007, he spent 2 years of post fellowship training in hepatobiliary, pancreatic and transplant surgery. He worked as the Asian Surgical Association Clinical Fellow at Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong under the mentorship of Professor S.T. Fan and Professor C.M. Lo. This is a renowned center for liver cancer , live donor liver transplantation and laparoscopic surgery and I had the opportunity of working with the world leaders in liver, pancreas and bile duct cancer.

Dr. Lam’s surgical expertise is in surgical management of liver, pancreas and bile duct cancer aiming to provide the cure with resection or ablative therapy; and laparoscopic surgery of liver, gallbladder, pancreas and spleen. Dr. Lam returned to Sydney in 2008 as Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Sydney. He has admitting rights to both the Westmead Public, Westmead Private Hospitals, Norwest Private Hospital and Sydney Adventist Hospital.

Research Interests:

Dr. Lam has a strong research interest in both primary and secondary liver cancers.

• Dr. Lam is fluent in Cantonese.

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