Academic Department
Cabrini Monash University Department of Surgery
The Fröhlich West Chair of Surgery
The Chair of Surgery at Cabrini Hospital was established in 1998, as a first of its kind in the Victorian private medical sector and one of the first in Australia, and as a joint venture between Cabrini Clinical Education & Research Institute and Monash University. Adrian Polglase was appointed as Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Cabrini Monash University Department of Surgery with the chair being endowed as the Fröhlich West Chair of Surgery in 2004.
The major role of the department has been to pursue surgical research into diseases of the colon, rectum and anus with a particular interest in bowel cancer. The department has been principally responsible for establishing the very successful under-graduate and post-graduate surgical training programmes.
Cabrini became the first private hospital in Australia to be accredited for advanced general surgical training of surgical registrars in 2005. There are currently six sessional surgeons appointed to the Department, together with three clinical assistant research nurses and a research fellow.
Cabrini Institute
Cabrini Hospital
183 Wattletree Road
Malvern 3144
Phone: +61 3 9508 1651
Fax: +61 3 9508 1017
