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Dr Alex Craven
MBBS, FRACS (Obesity Surgeon, Upper Gastrointestinal and General Surgeon)
Dr Alex Craven is a general surgeon specialising in Obesity and Upper Gastrointestinal surgery. He provides consultation and surgery through Advanced Surgical and Darebin Weight Loss Surgery and also works as an Obesity and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon at the Austin Hospital.
Alex studied medicine at the University of Queensland and trained in general surgery at the Austin and Northern Hospitals through the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (RACS), before completing post-fellowship training in obesity surgery and upper gastrointestinal surgery.
Dr Alex Craven is most passionate about working with patients to control obesity and its related diseases, in order to live longer, healthier lives. Through Darebin Weight Loss he can provide coordinated multidisciplinary obesity care - including supervised lifestyle intervention and obesity medication, as well as surgery.
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Good times for a great cause. Pancreatic cancer is a brutal and merciless disease, and it was a pleasure and a privilege to contribute in a very small way to the wonderful work @pancarefoundation do in an effort to improve the lives of those it affects at their Festival of Sport today. Thanks @ramsayhealthau for inviting me along, and Pancare for an excellent event, that, while sensitive to the suffering this disease causes, also celebrated life, and triumph over adversity, and also@solved the problem of what to get my Mum for Christmas 😉
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Thanks very much to the Austin and Northern Surgical Association (ANSA) for an excellent evening, celebrating surgical training and trainees.
Nothing like a BBQ to draw a crowd of hardworking healthcare heroes.
#freefood #healthcare @austinhealth_ #surglife #surgery #bariatricsurgeon
Complex problems need complex solutions, and while a trained and caring clinician is a pretty good problem-solving machine, a team of these takes us to the next level @austinhealth_ . What you can’t see here is our gastroenterologist colleagues joining us on line, and a few other hidden team members. These sort of meetings have been standard care in our cancer work for years, increasingly we employ this approach fairly routinely to rare benign conditions as well. #surgery #MDT #achalasia #dysphagia #GORD #esophagus #stomach #teamworkmakesthedreamwork
Yeah, pretty sure forearm day isn’t a thing… but if it was, surgeons would rule!
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The world’s premier conference on the most effective treatment for Australia’s most important disease – coming to Melbourne next year. The theme is integration- how we work together for the best results for our patients.
Call for abstracts now open – make sure you get your research out there!
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What an honour and privilege to talk to a brilliant group of anaesthetists and surgeons with special expertise in obesity about advances in our understanding or obesity and it’s treatment. Valuable insights into practical aspects of anaesthesia for higher-risk patients from the other speakers were a real bonus. Thanks to members of @asa_australia for the invitation and the opportunity to represent to teams @austinhealth_ and @darebinweightloss.surgery. Thanks also to Fisher an Paykel for sponsoring an excellent evening.
#obesity #obesitysurgery #obesitymedicine #bariatricsurgeryaustralia #bariatricsurgery #obesityawareness #anaesthesia #sleevegastrectomy #gastricbypass #obesitytreatment #weightloss #weightlosssurgery #weightstigma
