Dr. Robert GandyUpper Gastrointestinal Surgeon

Introducing Rob Gandy

I am a specialist General, Upper GI (stomach and oesophagus) and HPB (Liver, pancreas, and gallbladder) surgeon. I aim to provide you with professional personalised care throughout the duration of your illness and into the future.

Dr. Gandy's Service Focus

I provide emergency and elective surgical services at the Prince of Wales (private and public) Hospitals campus in Randwick, New South Wales. I offer

• Diagnostic & therapeutic endoscopy
• Laparoscopic (keyhole) gallbladder surgery
• Laparoscopic ( Keyhole ) Hernia surgery
• Laparoscopic anti- reflux surgery
• Complex Liver, pancreatic, stomach and oesphageal surgery
• A wide variety of general surgical therapies

My sub-speciality and research focus is the provision of high-quality personalised care to patients with upper abdominal cancers, including those of the Liver, pancreas, gallbladder, bile ducts, stomach, and oesophagus.

Qualifications

I received my undergraduate medical degree at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, in 2002. I completed my Masters in Upper GI Surgery at the University of Sydney in 2010.

Post graduate Training

Certificate of completion of basic surgical training, at the Yorkshire School of Surgery, and Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (England) in 2006.

Fellowship of the Royal Australasian college of surgeons (FRACS) in 2015 after completing a further 9 years surgical training in Australia.

Specialist post fellowship training was undertaken with the Australian and New Zealand Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary association at the Liverpool, Bankstown and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals.

List of Professional Memberships

• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
• Royal college of Surgeons (England)
• General surgeons Australia (GSA)
• Australian and New Zealand hepato-pancreato-Biliary Association (ANZ HPBA)
• Australian and New Zealand gastro-oesophageal surgical association (ANZGOSA)
• International association of Hepato-pancreato-Biliary surgeons (IHPBA)
• Australian Medical association (AMA)
• Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG)

Current Hospital Appointments

Consulting Rooms

Arthur Street Specialists
69 Arthur Street
Randwick, NSW 2031
+61 (02) 8599-4360

Public

Prince of wales Public Hospital
Barker street
Randwick
New south Wales, 2031
Australia

Private

Prince of Wales Private Hospital

Barker street
Randwick
New south Wales, 2031
Australia

Alexandria Specialist Day Hospital
15 Bowden Street
Alexandria
New south Wales, 2015
Australia

Research & Publications

General Surgery

Comparative Validation of Abdominal CT Models that Predict Need for Surgery in Adhesion-Related Small-Bowel Obstruction. PF Yang, DP Rabinowitz, SW Wong, M Kahn, RC Gandy. World J Surg (2016)

Should the non-operative management of appendicitis be the new standard of care? RC Gandy and F Wang. ANZ J Surg, 2016; 86 (4) 228-231.

Safety of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery in a Low-Volume Setting: Review of Early and Late Outcomes. RC Gandy and CR Berney Gastroenterology R & P, vol. 2014

Outcomes of appendicectomy in an acute care surgery model. RC. Gandy, P Truskett, S. Wong, S. Smith, M. Bennett, A. Parasyn. Med J Aust, 2010

Aberrant cholecystohepatic ducts.  R. Gandy, W. Hargreaves and D. Fenton-Lee.  ANZ J Surg 2010

Pancreatic Cancer

Centralising care for patients with pancreatic cancer: a hybrid model approach, Med J Aust. 2016;

Refining approaches of care for patients with pancreatic cancer; Findings of the Australasian pancreatic cancer workshop.  RC Gandy, A Barbour, M Nikfarjam, J Samra, KS Haghighi, J Kench, D Goldstein. Med J Aust. 2016

Discovery of diagnostic biomarkers for pancreatic cancer in immunodepleted serum by SELDI-TOF MS. A Xue, RC Gandy, L Chung, RC Baxter, RC Smith. Pancreatology March 2012: 

Discovery of serum biomarkers for pancreatic adenocarcinoma using proteomic analysis. A Xue, C J Scarlett, L Chung, G Butturini, A Scarpa, RC Gandy, S R Wilson, R C Baxter and R C Smith. Br J of Cancer July 2010

Liver cancer

Management of low rectal cancer with synchronous liver metastasis.  RC Gandy and C Sandroussi ‘Case based lessons in the management of complex Hepato-Pancreato-biliary Surgery’ 2016

Short and long term outcomes of older patients undergoing hepatectomy for colorectal liver metastases. RC Gandy, T Stavrakis, KS Haghighi.   ANZ J Surg

Hepatic resection for non-colorectal, non-endocrine liver metastases.  RC Gandy, P Bergamin, KS Haghighi. ANZ J Surg

My Story

I was born in Manchester, United Kingdom.  I stayed in the north of England for my medical and basic surgical training in Leeds and York.  I Moved to Australia in 2006, with my wife, who was born in Melbourne.

I am married and have 2 daughters, I live close to my surgical practice allowing me access to my patients at short notice.  Away from medicine I enjoy spending time at home and at the beach with my family.  Promising rugby and cricket achievements as a young man have made way for a very average game of golf.