Surgery
Research Staff
Professor Michael Cox
Professor of Surgery MB, MS, FRACS
Under the leadership of Professor of Surgery, Michael Cox, the Discipline of Surgery is fostering clinical research within Nepean, maintaining a strong clinical presence in elective upper GI surgery and acute general surgery and inspiring and mentoring students and graduates into the fulfilling and satisfying career offered by surgery and general surgery in particular.
Current interests include; Research into complicated biliary stone disease, establishment and improvement of a new model for acute surgical care, training and assessment of surgical trainees, in particular competency based training, improvement of the management of elective surgical conditions in the public sector, surgical management of morbid obesity and changing the surgical paradigm to encourage new graduates into a career in general surgery. Professor Cox is currently working to establish co-operative links with Universities of Western Sydney and Macquarie.
The Whiteley-Martin Research Unit has recently been opened (June 21, 2010) and is dedicated to research on upper gastrointestinal cancers. The current program has an epidemiological and clinical research focus with oesophageal and gastric cancer the current research priority, with the intent of becoming a world leader in the epidemiology of oesophageal and gastric cancers. However, we offer topics on a broad range of gastrointestinal diseases and cancers for research, and have expertise in conducting meta-analysis and systematic reviews.
Associate Professor Guy Eslick heads up the research in this unit. The Whiteley-Martin Research Unit is so-named to acknowledge the generous bequest of Mrs Nina Whiteley, that shall fund the Unit and Professor Chris Martin, the Foundation Professor of Surgery at Nepean Hospital. The Whiteley-Martin Research Unit shall focus on epidemiological research into oesophago-gastric malignancies. A tumour bank shall be established and collaborative research performed between this unit and other units across Australia. It is envisaged that the Whiteley-Martin Research Unit shall be extremely productive and offer projects for under-graduate honors students, as well as post-graduate degrees in Masters of Surgery and Doctorates.
Contact
Professor Michael Cox
Professor of Surgery
Email:
Phone:+61 2 4734 2608
Fax:+61 2 4734 3432
Nepean Hospital
PO Box 63
Penrith
NSW 2751 Australia
Professor Mohamed Khadra
B Med, Grad Dip Comp, M Ed, PhD, FAICD, FRACS
Professor Mohamed Khadra is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Sydney and a consultant urologist at Nepean Hospital and the Nepean Private Hospital. He is also Head of Department of Urology at Nepean Hospital. Professor Khadra has had a varied and successful career to date, working as a leader in education and medicine internationally and in Australia.
He has been the principal researcher in over $27 million in grants during the last 10 years and has won several research prizes as well as accolades including the Alumni Medal of the University of Newcastle, the Noel Newton Medal for Surgical Research and the Alban gee Prize for research in urology.
Apart from his publications in esteemed scientific and education journals, he has published an impressionistic memoir about his life as a surgeon and his patients, “Making the Cut” and more recently, “The Patient”, which outlines one man’s journey through the health system.
1 - The Acute Surgical Unit (ASU) as a model of care for patients presenting with complicated obstructive biliary disease.
2 - The epidemiology of acute pancreatitis in Western Sydney.
3 - Open versus minimally invasive oesophagectomy: a meta-analysis.
4 - Laproscopic appendectomy
5 - Management of common bile duct stones.
6 - Acute cholecystitis and the acute surgical unit.
7 - Risk factors for small bowel obstruction.
8 - Management of acute diverticulitis.
9 - Models of acute surgical care.
We are also interested in any projects that have a gastrointestinal disease focus and projects do not have to have a surgical orientation. We welcome ideas from all prospective students, please come and discuss your ideas. Projects currently exist for either Honours or Masters degrees, and these would ideally suit students from medicine, public health, psychology, or allied health.
It is hoped that the current program will be expanded to include a laboratory stream that will conduct molecular and pathology research on upper gastrointestinal cancers in the near future.
Contact
Professor Mohamed Khadra
Professor of Surgery
Email:
Phone:+61 2 4734 2608
Fax:+61 2 4734 3432
Associate Professor Guy Eslick
Recently appointed to lead research at the Whiteley-Martin Research Unit, Associate Professor Guy Eslick returned to Australia after conducting research on risk factors associated with oesophageal cancer at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. Associate Professor Eslick has an excellent track record of research on gastrointestinal disease and has extensive experience in conducting population-based studies, clinical-based research and meta-analysis and systematic reviews.
Contact
Associate Professor Guy Eslick
Associate Professor of Surgery and Cancer Epidemiology The Whiteley-Martin Research Unit Discipline of Surgery
Email:
Phone:+61-2-4734 1373
Fax:+61-2-4734 3432