Dr Hanh Tran
MA, MB BChir (Cambridge), FRCS (Eng),
FRACS, Grad Cert Edu (Syd)

Dr Tran has extensive experience with the performance of laparoscopic (keyhole) hernia repair. These procedures numbering some 2,000 have been subject to careful audit. The rate of complication has been low and the rate of recurrent hernia has been less than 1%, which is as good as or better than other reported series in the literature.

The Sydney Hernia Clinic prides itself on research projects that have been approved by the Holroyd Private Hospital Ethics Committee. Dr Tran has continued this tradition and is currently conducting a trial under strict Ethics Committee guidelines to study methods that will limit or abolish the formation of intra-abdominal adhesions. The knowledge gained in the experimental setting has been applied in this clinical practice.

In 2009 Dr Tran applied the technique of single incision laparoscopic hernia repair to most of his hernia procedures. Since this time Dr Tran has built up a wealth of experience, the results of which have been reported at several national and international clinical meetings. The results of Dr Tran's hernia repair have been published in prestigious journals such as the Journal of the Society of Laparo-Endoscopic Surgeons, Journal of Immunology and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery. Because of his special interest In hernia repair he has been regularly invited to speak at the annual congress of the European, American and Asia Pacific Societies.

Dr Tran is the founding president of the Australasian Hernia Society and in this capacity has organised and chaired international conferences on hernia treatment. Dr Tran continues research into the treatment of hernia repair. This knowledge has been recognised by other experienced general surgeons who have attended workshops conducted by Dr Tran to teach the latest techniques of keyhole hernia surgery.

Dr Tran can see patients at the following locations:
The Sydney Hernia Clinic at Holroyd Private Hospital, 123 Chetwynd Road, Guildford NSW 2161
OR
Level 2, 195 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000

Dr Oliver Florica
MD BS FRACS
Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgeon

Dr Florica received his fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2002 and has since focused his practice on laparoscopic surgery. In this respect he obtained further training and was awarded a Diploma of Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery from Strasbourg, France.

In the last 8 years weight loss surgery has increasingly dominated his clinical focus, he has undertaken specialist training in a range of weight loss procedures and has performed many hundreds of procedures in his own practice.

He currently practices at the Sydney Adventist Hospital in Wahroonga, Hawkesbury Hospital in Windsor ,Holroyd Private Hospital and The Sydney Private Hospital in Ashfield. He is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and a member of the Obesity Surgery Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Dr Fadil Khaleal MBChB, FRACS General, Laparoscopic Gastrointestinal, Bariatric & Endoscopic Surgeon

Director of the Acute Surgical Unit, Nepean Hospital.

Visiting Senior Medical Officer at the Nepean and Fairfield Public Hospitals.

Completed the Royal Australasian fellowship of General Surgery 2007.

Intensive Laparoscopic training of Bariatric, colorectal and hernia surgery.

Current Appointments:

• The Sydney Institute for Obesity Surgery
• The Sydney Private Hospital, Holroyd Private, Nepean Private
• Fairfield, Nepean and Hawkesbury Public Hospitals
• Private Rooms at Parramatta Plush med, Penrith