Professor Andrew Stevenson

Andrew is a Senior specialist Colorectal Surgeon and the Past Director of the Colorectal Surgery Unit at Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital (2004-2018) and Clinical Professor, Dept. Surgery, University of Queensland. He is also an Honorary Associate, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney. Andrew’s research career commenced in 1998 and he has been Chief Investigator for 2 x NHMRC grants and has published over 100 scientific articles in the field of colorectal surgery. The main research focus has been the development and dissemination of minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of colorectal cancer and pelvic floor disorders including sacral neuromodulation for faecal incontinence and new techniques for treatment of rectal prolapse and rectocoeles. The results of these trials have had a major impact on the surgical community, both nationally and internationally.

Along with the team in Brisbane, Andrew has conducted over 200 workshops (nationally and internationally) on minimally invasive techniques and now conducts regular masterclasses on advanced laparoscopic colorectal surgery including ventral rectopexy (prolapse repair with biologic graft) and robotics both locally and overseas. Andrew has pioneered and championed both ventral rectopexy and transanal TME, laparoscopy and robotics as well as fluorescence and image-guided surgery in Australasia. Prof Stevenson is past Chair of the ANZ Training Board in Colorectal Surgery and was recently awarded the distinguished Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Colorectal Surgery.

Andrew has been closely involved in the international consensus forum into the development of new minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of rectal prolapse (ventral rectopexy), transanal TME for rectal cancer and the fuse of fluorescence imaging in colorectal surgery. Andrew has served on a number of editorial journal boards and is a regular reviewer. Prof Stevenson is the principal investigator for a number of multi centre trials on minimal invasive colorectal surgery, including ALaCaRT and the new trial of robotic v. laparoscopic colectomy – RoLaCaRT. As a founding director of Colorectal Diagnostics in 1998, Andrew has performed thousands of ultrasounds and pressure tests for patients with pelvic floor troubles and continues to be actively involved as a clinician and instructor.

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