Registry Staff and Steering Committee
Professor Wendy Brown MBBS (Hons), PhD, FRACS, FACS
Head, Monash University Department of Surgery
Director, Centre for Obesity Research and Education (CORE)
Clinical Lead, Bariatric Surgery Registry
Email: wendy.brown@monash.edu
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
Ellie James
Executive Officer
Rachana Pattali
Operations Manager
Sherin Renchi
Data Services Manager
Registry Staff Members
Research Assistant
- Shivangi Shah
Research Officer
- Anagi Wickremesinghe
Research Support Assistants
- Edan MacCartney
- Kate Page
- Seline Ruiz
Database/Business Analyst
- Robin Thompson
Data Analyst
- Patrick Garduce
Research Fellow
- Alyssa Budin
Consultant
- Dianne Brown
Steering Committee Members | |
| Professor Ian Caterson, Chair Professor Emeritus, SoLES, University of Sydney Deputy Clinical Stream Director, Sydney Local Health District | 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 Susannah Ahern Divisional Co-Director, Clinical and Health data Outcomes Innovation and Research (CHOIR) Head, Clinical Outcomes data Reporting and Research Program (CORRP) |
| Dr Nicholas Williams Australia and New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgery Society (ANZMOSS) Representative | Ms Brooke Backman, Community Representative |
| Dr Jasjit Baveja MTAA Representative | Ms Vanessa Ding Consumer Representative (New Zealand) |
| Ms Jennifer Holland BSR Executive Officer | Ms Lexii Marquardt Consumer Representative |
| Ms Cindy Schultz Ferguson Community Representative | Mr Ross Roberts Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Gastric & Oesophageal Surgery Association (AANZGOSA) Representative |
| Department of Health and Aged Care Representative - TBC | |