Our staff
Professor Wendy Brown is an Upper GI and Bariatric Surgeon. She is Chair of the Monash University Department of Surgery at the Alfred Hospital and Programme Director Surgical Services Alfred Health. Wendy is also the Director of the Oesophago-Gastric-Bariatric unit at The Alfred and Director of the Monash University Centre for Obesity Research and Education and Clinical Director of the National Bariatric Surgery Registry and Victorian State Upper GI Cancer Registry. Her sub-specialist interests are oesophago-gastric cancer, gastroesophageal reflux disease and bariatric surgery. Her research interests include health outcomes from bariatric surgery, animal models of bariatric surgery and basic mechanisms underlying satiety. Wendy is a member of the Victorian Perioperative Consultative Council and chairs the surgical sub-committee. She chairs the Global Bariatric Surgery Registry Committee for the International Federation for Surgery for Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO). She has previously been President of OSSANZ and ANZGOSA, Senior Examiner in General Surgery for the RACS, Deputy Chair of the Victorian Surgical Consultative Council and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the IFSO. She was awarded the prestigious RACS John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship for Surgical Research Excellence in 2018. |
Registry Management:Jennifer Holland Dr Jenifer Cottrell |
Registry Staff Members:Dianne Brown Simone Wilkins Angus Brian Campbell Hayley Cottrell Marjan Hamidimanesh Edan MacCartney Giorgia Scott Shivangi Shah Katy Shaw Zahli Hansen Angelika Vodola |
PROMS Research:Alyssa Budin |
Professor Wendy Brown MBBS (Hons), PhD, FRACS, FACS Steering Committee Members: | |
| Professor Ian Caterson, Chair Foundation Director of the Boden Institute of Obesity Nutrition Exercise and Eating Disorders and Boden Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Sydney | Professor Wendy Brown, Clinical Director Head of Monash University Department of Surgery, Director of CORE, Centre for Obesity and Research Education, Clinical Director for Bariatric Surgery Registry |
| Associate Professor Andrew MacCormick, New Zealand Clinical Lead | Professor John McNeil AO, Data Custodian Epidemiologist & former Head of the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University |
| Professor Susannah Ahern Head, Registry Sciences and Research, Monash University | Dr Samuel Baker Australia and New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgery Society (ANZMOSS) Representative, Surgeon |
| Professor Neil Merrett Australia and New Zealand Gastric & Oesophageal Surgery Association (ANZGOSA) Representative | Associate Professor Michael Talbot Australia and New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgery Society (ANZMOSS) Representative, Surgeon |
| Professor Chris Bullen Director, National Institute for Health Innovation (NIHI) | Professor Jeff Hamdorf, AM Australia and New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgery Society (ANZMOSS) Representative, Surgeon |
| Dr Meron Pitcher Independent Royal College of Surgeons (RACS) Representative | Associate Professor Arul Earnest Senior Biostatistician, Registry Sciences Unit Monash University |
| Ex-Officio Members: | |
| Ms Brooke Backman – Bariatric Surgery Registry Programme Manager | |
| Dr Jenifer Cottrell – Bariatric Surgery Registry Customer Relationships Manager | |