Professor Crowe is a Surgical Oncologista doctor who specialises in diagnosisng and treating cancer with surgery with a clinical and research interest in soft tissuetissue/the material that joins, holds up or surrounds inside body parts such as fat, muscle, ligaments and lining around joints sarcomacancer arising from bones and/or soft tissue and breast cancera disease where abnormal cells split without control and spread to other nearby body tissue and/or organs. He also practises endocrine surgerytreatment involving removal of cancerous tissue and/or tumours and a margin of healthy tissue around it to reduce recurrence, including thyroid, parathyroid surgery and minimally invasive adrenal surgery. His clinical practice is at both POW public and private hospitals. He is Director of the Sydney Sarcoma Unit and co-director of the Sarcoma Research Group at UNSW, based on the Lowy Cancer Research Centre.
He completed his DPhil (PhD) in the Nuffield Department of Surgery at the University of Oxford, as a Rhodes scholar, before moving to Toronto, Canada for General Surgical training. He did further fellowship training in cancer surgery at the University of Cape Town and at Prince of Wales hospital, Randwick before being appointed at a Senior Lecturer in Surgery, UNSW in 1992. He become Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery, based at POWH in 2004. In 2021 he was appointed Head of the Discipline of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW.
Professor Crowe has a broad interest in treatment of soft tissuea group of cells that work together to perform a function sarcoma, particularly trialling new treatment regimens. Lab based research is focused on identifying markers of prognosisto predict how a disease/condition may progress and what the outcome might be and potential targets for new therapies. Clinical research in endocrine and breast cancer surgery.
Location
Prince Of Wales Hospital, Barker Street, Randwick NSW, Australia
