Chris Hensman Melbourne, Australia F.R.A.C.S. Dr. Chris Hensman, who is a fellow of Royal Australian College of Surgeons received his surgical training in Australia as well as in the UK. Dr. Hensman became responsible for setting up the first hands-on course to teach surgeons in the UK the technique of ETS. He returned to Australia in 1997 and became a Director and Lecturer at the University Department of Surgery, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne. He has been featured on National Television and medical magazines highlighting new treatment methods.  Guest Instructor /Lecturer in Surgery. World Congress New York March 2002:  Chris Hensman was recently an invited Guest Lecturer / instructor at the World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in New York.  The World congress is host to the largest body of Surgeons with a major interest in Laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery within and outside the US.  He was an instructor at a workshop to teach surgeons a novel way of harvesting kidneys for transplantation using the key hole or Laparoscopic approach.

Curriculum Vitae

Present Position

Since 1997
SOUTHERN HEALTHCARE NETWORK MELBOURNE VICTORIA -
Monash Medical Centre Clayton and Dandenong

• Staff Consultant Gastrointestinal, General Surgeon and Endoscopist.
• Director Minimal Access surgical service.
• Senior Lecturer University Department of Surgery Monash Medical Centre
• Representative Skills advisory committee Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
• Chairman Victorian Skills consortium
• Victorian representative of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons course for Surgeons in training.

Meetings and Continuing Medical education

• Lecture Obesity State of the art treatment - Laparoscopic Obesity Service The Valley Private Hospital - November 1st 2000
• Laparoscopic Surgery Introductory course for Nurses - Melbourne October 2000
• Laparoscopic Common Bile duct exploration - GUT club Melbourne 1999 September
• Lecture presentations to GP’s and staff education South-eastern Private Hospital February 1998.
• Lecture presentation to Nurses - Minimal Access Surgery The future and Scope of MAS September 1998
• Attendance’s at weekly audit meetings both at Monash medical centre Clayton as well as Dandenong District Hospital
• Attending weekly Radiology and Pathology presentations as well as interdisciplinary meetings

Publications & Presentations

• The Irrigating scalpel for dividing small bowel adhesions - Waxman B, Hensman C - Presented spring meeting colorectal surgeons of USA April 2000 & Featured on the Internet site :WWW// irrigatingscalpel.com
• Hensman C, Hewett P, Lionel G, Rao M - Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy Technique and preliminary experience - Aust NZJ Surg(Australia) May 1999 69(5) P 365
• Hensman C et.al The safety and efficacy of Laparoscopic Antireflux Surgery outside a tertiary institution - In press
• Hensman C, Cuschieri A - Cytotoxicity of Electrosurgical smoke produced in an anoxic environment Am J Surg (US) Mar 1998, 175(3) 240-1
• Hensman C, Cuschieri et.al - Electrosurgical smoke has immune suppressive effects on Monocytes - In press
• Hensman C, Baty D et.al The chemical composition of Electrosurgical smoke produced by High frequency Electrosurgery An In Vitro study - Surgical Endoscopy (Germany) Aug 1998, 12 (8) 1017-9
• Hensman C, Crosthwaite G, Cuschieri A - Transcystic biliary drainage cannula for common bile duct drainage following laparoscopic common bile duct exploration - Surgical Endoscopy (Germany) Nov 1998(11) 1106-10
• Luck A, Hensman C, Hewett P. Laproscopic colectomy for cancer - Aust NZJ Surg(Australia) May 1998 68(5) P 318-27
• Hensman C, Luck A, Hewett P. Laparoscopic assisted colonoscopic polypectomy technique and preliminary results - Surgical Endoscopy (Germany) Mar 1999, (3) 231-2
• Hensman C, Chan M Laparoscopic Removal of Gastric foreign body an alternative technique - In press
• Hensman C, Hanna G Infrared output and temperature generated by cold light sources used in Minimal access surgery- submitted to Surgical Endoscopy (Germany)
• Hensman C, Luck A, Hewett P. Laparoscopic assisted reversal of Hartmanns procedure The Australian and New Zealand experience - Submitted to Surgical Endoscopy
• Hensman C, Timothy J, Jackson DB. A case report of perforated appendicitis presenting as an acute Hydrocoele- In press
• Hensman C, Timothy J, Jackson DB A case report of Ileal carcinoid presenting as Megaloblastic anaemia- In press
• Dodds L, Hensman C. -Case report of splenic trauma following colonoscopy Aust NZJ Surg(Australia) Nov 1993 63(11) P 905-6

Presentations

• Hensman C, Chan S The learning curve and lessons learnt implementing Laparoscopic Splenectomy -Presented at Association of Surgeons meeting Sydney May 2000
• Hensman C, Rao M et.al The Preliminary results and outcome of Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy - The Australian Experience Australian Surgeons Meeting Sydney 1999
• Hensman C, Hewett P, Rao M - Laparoscopic Assisted colonoscopic Polypectomy GSM Sydney May 1998
• Minimal Access Surgery - Surgery for the New Millennium The Scope and Future of MAS - Christian Medical College Vellore India
• Hensman C, Newman L, Cuschieri A, Shimmi S- The Cytotoxicity of electrosurgical smoke- Surgical Research Society Kings Hospital London 1997 January
• Sali A, Hensman C. The use of a Laparoscopic sucker irrigator for haemostasis following colonoscopic biopsy. Poster presentation American society of Gastroenterology October 1993.
• Hensman C The scope and future of Laparoscopic surgery presentation to GP’s

Previous Position

February 1997 to January 1998.
THE QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL, ADELAIDE,
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Fellow in Colorectal and Laparoscopic Surgery, Co-ordinator Laparoscopic Training programme - The Department of Surgery.

March 1996 to March 1997
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, SCOTLAND, UK

Lecturer/ Research Registrar in Surgery - The Surgical Skills Unit

July 1994 to January 1995
DANDENONG DISTRICT HOSPITAL

Post fellowship Senior Registrar in General Surgery

1991- 1994.
ADVANCED TRAINING IN GENERAL SURGERY LEADING TO THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
Victoria Australia

July 1993 to January 1994
REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL -
General Surgery Professorial Unit

February 1993 to July 1993
General & Thoracic Surgical Registrar

July 1992 to January 1993
Vascular Surgical Registrar

January 1992 to July 1992
General Surgical Registrar

July 1991 to January 1992
BOX HILL HOSPITAL

February 1991 to July 1991
THE AUSTIN HOSPITAL

1986 -1991
REPATRIATION HOSPITAL, HEIDELBERG AND MAROONDAH HOSPITAL, MAROONDAH. VICTORIA AUSTRALIA

Resident Medical Officer

Internship and Post Internship Appointments

INTERNSHIP - GENERAL HOSPITAL COLOMBO SRI LANKA.

General Medicine - January 1983 to July 1983 Mr K Ramachandran MRCP.
General Surgery - July 1983 to January 1984 Mr J Yoheswaran FRCS.

December 1984 to December 1985- Senior House Officer Orthopaedics Highlands Hospital Winchmore Hill London N21 - Mr F.C Chen FRCS, Mr B Helal FRCS, Mr K Stone FRCS.

December 1985 to July 1986 - Senior House Officer Accident Emergency Chase Farm Hospital - Enfield London N21. - Mr G Mouza FRCS.

Schooling and Medical Degree

Primary and secondary schooling 1963 to 1972 - St Thomas’s College, Colombo, Sri Lanka

M.B.B.S examination Colombo Medical Faculty Sri Lanka September 1983. Awarded Class honours

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