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Professor A b r a h a m A/Professor Abraham is a practicing colorectal
and general surgeon and an endoscopist at the Coffs Colorectal and Capsule Endoscopy Centre located at Southern Cross Medical Specialists - with admitting and operating rights at Baringa Private Hospital and the Coffs Harbour Health Campus.
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is main areas of interest are colorectal cancer surgery, Fast Track Colorectal Surgery (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery) Programs, day only gall bladder and hernia procedures, sphincter preserving surgery and minimal use of stomas (whether temporary or permanent) and capsule endoscopy. He is also proficient in procedures for anorectal conditions such as the Anal Fistula Plug and Botox injections for anal fissures. He runs a Biofeedback program in collaboration with specially trained Registered Nurses for the treatment of bowel dysfunctions such as faecal incontinence and obstructed defecation. What is biofeedback? It is a program designed to help patients improve their bowel function. It helps people re-establish bowel control either by improving continence and preventing leaks or soiling accidents OR by teaching people with constipation, obstruction or haemorrhoids how to evacuate the bowel more easily, efficiently, and completely. What does it involve? Before starting the program the patient will have an initial assessment performed. This will involve a number of questionnaires to determine their current level of bowel function and may also involve a manometry test. Manometry testing is a pressure test and looks at the resting pressure and squeezing ability of the sealing valves at the end of the rectum. This test involves a small soft rubber probe being inserted into the back passage. It is not painful and it gives very valuable information. This is supplemented by an ultrasound examination to assess the integrity of the sphincter complex which is performed during the same visit. In all the Coffs Continence Clinic provides the most comprehensive service of its kind between Newcastle and the Gold Coast. Professor Ned Abraham is the Co-ordinator of Surgical Teaching at the Coffs Harbour Campus of the Faculty of
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Medicine, University of New South Wales. In 2009, he became the first person to ever be promoted to the level of Associate Professor in the ten year history of the Rural Clinical School of the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales. He has been heavily involved in the provision of cancer treatment in first He became the the Coffs Clarence Area and was be er person to ev quoted in the NSW Parliament. level of ot prom ed to the r in He is also a member of the Coffs so es of Associate Pr Clarence Clinical Council that y of the or st hi ar the ten ye was established as part of the hool of Rural Clinical Sc icine, recommendations of the Garling ed Royal College of Surgeons of England the Faculty of M South Report. ew N through a nomination by its President. University of Professor Abraham graduated He has published widely in peer Wales .” with Honours in 1986. He reviewed journals including British completed his internship and resident Journal of Surgery, Surgery, Disease of medical officer years in Tasmania and Colon & Rectum and ANZ Journal of Surgery. Darwin. He has since obtained the Degrees of He is on the Editorial Boards of the World Journal a Master of Medicine and a Doctor of Philosophy in of Gastrointestinal Surgery and The World Journal of Surgery from the University of Sydney. His research Gastrointestinal Oncology and is a reviewer for the ANZ interests have covered a very wide range of medical Journal of Surgery. He has been an invited guest speaker and surgical conditions including evidence based surgery, and has chaired sessions at national and international the link between smoking and the aetiology of ulcerative meetings including the Second, Third, and Fifth World colitis, laparoscopic and fast track colorectal surgery, general Cancer Congresses in China (2009) and Singapore (2010), surgery, endolumenal AAA repair and the methodology the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia & New Zealand of meta-analysis of randomised trials and nonrandomised (2010) and to present and chair sessions at international comparative studies. conferences in Croatia and Texas. A/Professor Abraham is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian He has seen active service in Bougainville as Captain with College of Surgeons and a member of its Colorectal the Peace Keeping Force with the Australian Army Reserve. Section. He trained at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney A/Prof Abraham’s Rooms: then worked as the Surgical Superintendent of that hospital Southern Cross Medical Specialists, for three years attached to its Colorectal Unit. Suite 2, Ground Floor Specialist Medical Centre, He also spent two years as the Colorectal Surgical Society 343 Pacific Highway, of Australia & New Zealands clinical research fellow at the Coffs Harbour. Surgical Outcomes Research Centre of the University of 6651 8877 Sydney. In 2004, he was awarded the Fellowship of the
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