Justin
Gundara
Professor
Specialist Surgeon and Academic
Professor Justin Gundara is an academic sub-specialist endocrine surgeon. He maintains a Staff Specialist position with Metro South, QLD Health and has academic appointments with the University of Queensland and Griffith University. As the Clinical Lead in Surgery at Logan Clinical School he maintains a strong interest in clinical teaching and pragmatic surgical research. He is heavily involved in professional development, governance and surgical training through his work with the Australian and New Zealand Endocrine Surgeons sub-specialty body and RACS. He is the only Queensland clinician involved in drafting bi-national (Australia/NZ) hyperparathyroidism guidelines and is responsible for the inaugural post-fellowship training program in Endocrine Surgery throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Professor Gundara grew up in the Hills District of Sydney and went on to complete Honours Degrees in Applied Science and Medicine. He was based at Royal North Shore Hospital during surgical training and completed doctoral studies with the world renowned Sydney University Endocrine Surgical Unit investigating neuroendocrine disease. He subsequently obtained Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and completed fellowship training in HPB surgery (ANZHPBA). Dedicated endocrine surgery training followed in the UK (Senior Clinical Fellow in Endocrine Surgery; University College London Hospital, London). Here he expanded clinical horizons with exposure to paediatric endocrine surgery (Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London) and attended the European Neuroendocrine Tumour Summer School (Royal Free Hospital, London). He also underwent additional training in minimally invasive and robotic endocrine surgery (IRCAD Strasbourg, France).
Confidently Clinical
Professional development, governance and surgical training particularly through his work with the Australian and New Zealand Endocrine Surgeons sub-specialty body and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Queensland clinician involved in drafting of bi-national (Australia/NZ) guidelines for the management of parathyroid disease and is responsible for the initiation of the inaugural post-fellowship training program in Endocrine Surgery throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Senior Clinical Fellow in Endocrine Surgery – University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust (2016/17)
ENETS Summer School Delegate – Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom (2016) and International Visiting Professorship Award – Association of Academic Surgery (2013).
Patient consultations and appointment are at St Andrews War Memorial Hospital Brisbane.
AppointmentsEquipped to deal with all endocrine pathologies
My unique training experience has facilitated holistic training in the endocrine surgical discipline spanning both adult and paediatric populations and throughout the breadth of disease of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal gland and pancreas.
PhD FRACS – Specialist Endocrine and General Surgeon
