Dr Charbel Sandroussi has an interest in complex Upper Gastrointestinal, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic cancer surgery, including minimally invasive techniques in the management of these disorders. He also undertakes surgery for obesity, hernias, and gallstones.
Dr Sandroussi graduated with honours from the University of Sydney in 1999. He undertook General Surgical training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. During his surgical training, he successfully completed a Masters in Medical Science at the University of Newcastle.
Following the completion of General Surgical training he undertook sub-speciality training in Upper Gastrointestinal, Hepatobiliary and Transplant surgery.
He spent 2 years in Australia and 2 years in Toronto, Canada obtaining the highest level of training in
- Complex oncological resections including in-vivo liver isolation and cold perfusion for liver resections. Vascular resection during tumor extirpation and laparoscopic liver and pancreas surgery.
- Liver, pancreas and kidney transplantation surgery including adult and paediatric live donor liver resection.
- Advanced laparoscopy for biliary, obesity, hernia and adrenal surgery.
- Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy and ERCP.
Dr Sandroussi is one of the highest volume cancer surgeons in NSW, undertaking 60-70 pancreatic, 80-100 liver and 40-50 oesophagogastric resections per year. He is happy to provide an opinion on cancers that are difficult to remove surgically or those which may require resection and reconstruction of major blood vessels. In addition to cancer surgery he undertakes a large number of operations for benign diseases of the gallbladder (300 cholecystectomies per year) and hernias (100 per year).