Dr Cherry Koh works jointly at the Department of Colorectalrelating to the colon or rectum in the large bowel/intestine Surgerytreatment involving removal of cancerous tissue and/or tumours and a margin of healthy tissue around it to reduce recurrence in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Surgical Division in Chris O’Brien Lifehouse. Prior to commencing in 2012 at the Royal Prince Alfred hospital, she was completing her Colorectal Fellowship at the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Cherry completed her undergraduate training with the University of Melbourne in 2001 graduating with the surgical medal. She subsequently undertook general surgical training at St Vincent’s Hospital and The Alfred in Melbourne as well as Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. In 2010, she was awarded the Notaras Fellowship by the Training Board of Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand which granted her a post-fellowship position at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Oxford for her Colorectal Fellowship. While she was in the United Kingdom, she was also awarded the ACPGBI (Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland) travelling fellowship. As part of her travelling fellowship, she travelled and worked in St Mark’s Hospital, Basingstoke, Leeds General and Infirmary in the United Kingdom as well as Geneva in Switzerland.
Cherry has a wide clinical and academic interest. Clinically, she is interested in both minimally as well as maximally invasive surgery. Together with her colleagues, Cherry is organising the inaugural TAMIS (Transanal Minimally Invasive Surgery) live surgery workshop in Lifehouse later this year which has been very well received.
Academically, Cherry completed a Masters in Colorectal Surgery in 2008 looking at pelvic floor dysfunctionimpaired or abnormal function; not working properly. She is currently doing a PhD part time enrolled through the University of Sydney looking at decision making in patients with locally or recurrent rectal cancera disease where abnormal cells split without control and spread to other nearby body tissue and/or organs. Cherry is also the Colorectal Research lead for the Department of Colorectal Surgery at the Institute of Academic Surgery at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
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50 Missenden Road, Camperdown NSW, Australia
