Dr. Richard Hanney General Surgeon, Sydney

BACHELOR OF MEDICINE, BACHELOR OF SURGERY
University of Sydney/ Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Faculty of Medicine Graduated February 1988

• Recertified 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010
• DSTC (Definitive Surgical Trauma Care) certified 2002, 2005
• Appointed EMST Course Director 2002
• Appointed EMST (ATLS) Course Instructor December 1995, instructing both EMST in Australia 1995-7 and ATLS in UK 1998/99
• FRACS conferred Jan 1996
• EMST (ATLS) Instructor course completed July 1995
• Early Management of Severe Trauma Course (ATLS) completed 1992
• Accredited in Colonoscopy by Conjoint Committee GESA

• 2012 – 2013 : Head, Department of Surgery, Mount Druitt Hospital
• 2010 – Current : Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
• 2009 – Current : VMO General Surgeon Westmead Hospital Acute Surgical Unit
• 2000 – 2006 : VMO General / Upper GI Surgeon Nepean Hospital
• 1999 – Current : VMO General / Upper GI Surgeon Mt Druitt Hospital.
  Credentialed at Minchinbury, Westmead Private, Nepean Private Hospitals.
• 1998 – 1999 : Clinical Fellow – Scottish Liver Transplant Unit/ Upper GI surgery
• 1996 : Westmead Hospital – Clinical Superintendent in Surgery

Career Direction

Having undertaken general surgical training with the objective of ultimately taking up rural practice, during 1995-1997 I developed broader experience in teaching and training of current medical undergraduates and surgical aspirants.

With post-Fellowship experience in transplantation and oesophago-gastric surgery, I had hoped to further pursue the upper GI component of these. I have become increasingly involved in College and AMA activity at State, national and international levels, however. I maintain an active interest and involvement in the specialty of general surgery.

Free Papers

• FORMATION OF RACS TRAINEES COMMITTEE
  Presented at Annual Scientific Meetings of RACS Victoria, Tasmania, ACT, NSW 2005 with separate invited presentation in Brisbane.
• MAJOR VASCULAR INJURY OCCURRING WITH THE USE OF THE HASSON CANNULA
  Hanney RM, Carmalt HL, Merrett N, Tait N
  Presented at World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery, Rome, June 1998 Abstract published in Surgical Endoscopy 12(5) 1998: 676
• MISSED DIAGNOSIS AT LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY
  R Hanney, G Bond, A deCosta
  Presented at World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery, Rome, June 1998
  Abstract published in Surgical Endoscopy 12(5) 1998: 538
• BROKEN HILL – ESTABLISHMENT OF A RURAL TRAINING POSITION: THE INSIDE STORY
  R Hanney, I McInnes, N Tait
  Presented at RACS Annual Scientific Congress, Brisbane, May 1997 via videolink. Winner of the Johnson & Johnson ASC Rural Surgery Prize for best paper in Section.
• LIVER INJURIES IN CHILDREN
  V Malka, R Hanney, T Hughes, N Tait, A Richardson, M Hollands
  Presented at RACS Annual Scientific Congress, Melbourne 1996
• THE ROLE OF HEPATIC RESECTION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF LIVER TRAUMA
  R Hanney, V Malka, T Hughes, N Tait, A Richardson, M Hollands
  Presented at RACS Annual Scientific Congress, Melbourne 1996.
• VASCULAR INJURY IN LAPAROSCOPY
  R Hanney, K Alle, P Cregan
  Presented at RACS Annual Scientific Congress, Hobart 1994 and at RACS NSW Annual Scientific Meeting/Registrars’ Scientific Presentations, 1994
• SUCCESSFUL USE OF THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY IN A THROMBOSED POPLITEAL ARTERY ANEURYSM
  R Hanney, S Hazelton
  Presented at Urokinase Thrombolytic Therapy Symposium 1992
• DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF FEMORAL FALSE ANEURYSMS WITH COLOUR ENHANCED DUPLEX IMAGING
  JP Harris, A Burnett, R Hanney, GH White, J May
  Presented at RACS Annual Scientific Congress, Canberra 1992

• THE IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC SURGERY
  International Association of Surgical Student Societies Symposium. Brisbane, 2015
• OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL COLLEGES IN SIMULATION
  Medical simulation for training and assessment: current status, challenges and future directions.
  Christchurch, NZ, 2015
• INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC CAREERS IN AUSTRALIA
  Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Reunion Week. Sydney 2015
• THE SECTION OF ACADEMIC SURGERY – HOW TO GET INVOLVED AND WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE?
  RACS Academic Section Mid-career course, Sydney, 2015
  RACS Academic Section Mid-Career Course, Adelaide, 2014
• WE NEVER STOP TRAINING, SO RESEARCH FITS IN – HOW?
  World Congress of Surgical Education, Sweden 2013
• ISSUES AND INITIATIVES IN ACADEMIC SURGERY
  AMA National Doctors in Training Forum, 2012
• INTERVIEW AND SELECTION TECHNIQUESNSW
  AMA Doctors in Training Forum 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012
• MEN IN MEDICINE – USE YOUR POWERS FOR GOOD, NOT EVIL
  University of Wollongong Student Surgical Society information night 2012
• WOUND HEALING AND RATIONALE FOR SURGICAL CLOSURE OF DIFFERENT LAYERS
  Johnson and Johnson annual National Sales Training Meeting, January 2012
• INSTRUCTIONAL WORKSHOP – BASIC AND ADVANCED SUTURING TECHNIQUES
  AMSA (Australian Medical Students Association) National Convention, Sydney 2011
• AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT TO ENGAGE AND RECRUIT ACADEMIC SURGEONS
  1st World Congress on Surgical Training, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 2011
• AVOIDING PROBLEMS AND IMPROVING OUTCOMES
  session Chair The Alfred General Surgical meeting, Melbourne 2011
• THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A GENERAL SURGEON
  Sydney University Surgical Society Information night, October 2011
• COMMUNICATION, TRAINING AND FEEDBACK – PART-TIME TRAINING
  RACSTA (Trainees’ Association) session RACS ASC, Perth 2010
• DEVELOPING A CAREER IN ACADEMIC SURGERY
  RACSTA New Trainee Induction Weekend RACS Melbourne 2010
• COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN THE RACS AND THE Association for Academic Surgery
  2010 RACS Younger Fellows Forum, Adelaide
• THE COLLEGE AND YOU: WHAT WE DID AND WHY
  RACS NSW Preparation for Practice Seminar, Sydney 2009
• WHY I AM NOT AN ACADEMIC – A VIEW FROM THE OTHER SIDE
  RACS Section of Academic Surgery Heads of Departments meeting, Adelaide, 2009
• THE DCAS COURSE – PROGRESS ONE YEAR ON
  Presented at RACS Section of Academic Surgery Heads of Departments meeting, Adelaide, 2009
• ISSUES AFFECTING THE TRAINING OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF SURGEONS IN AUSTRALIA
  RCST/RACS joint meeting, Pattaya, Thailand, 2007.
• “THAT ‘SAFE HOURS’ MAKES BETTER SURGEONS”
  NSW RACS Annual Scientific Meeting Debate 2007 – 1st negative speaker – won by acclamation
• YOUNGER FELLOWS WORKING PARTY REVIEWING OF AUSTRALASIAN GENERAL SURGICAL TRAINING
  General Surgeons Australia meeting/ Queensland ASM, Townsville 2003
• LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY: BEST PRACTICE IN THE YEAR 2000. “;ENTRY TECHNIQUES”
  Sydney Upper GI Surgical Society, March 2000
• HAZARD REDUCTION: VISCERAL AND VASCULAR INJURIES AT LAPAROSCOPY
  General Surgeons Australia meeting, Sydney, 2000
• OESOPHAGOGASTRECTOMY
  Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh HDU Education day 1999
• SURGICAL ASPECTS OF GLOVE POWDER AND LATEX ALLERGY
  Invited surgical perspective at multidisciplinary seminar, July 1999
• ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE LIVER
  Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh nursing forum 1998
• WESTMEAD HOSPITAL REPORTED EXPERIENCE WITH OESOPHAGOGASTRECTOMY
  University of Edinburgh Department of Surgery 1998
• ADJUVANT/ NEOADJUVANT THERAPY IN MANAGEMENT OF OESOPHAGEAL CANCER
  RCSE Education session 1998
• LIVER TRAUMA
  Austrauma 97 – International Trauma Conference held at Westmead Hospital.
• DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF DISSEMINATED INTRAPERITONEAL HYDATIDOSIS
  Invited case presentation at Festschrift for Professor Miles Little, U of Sydney, April 1997
• Invited Presentations – other
  SEPTICAEMIA AND SHOCK
  Mt Druitt Hospital surgical registrar training session 1995

• THE AUSTRALASIAN STUDENTS’ SURGICAL ASSOCIATION: DEVELOPMENT, PROGRESS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
  C Wells, S Fitzpatrick, E Chan, W Ridley, R Hanney Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 2019, 89: pp 629-30
• PERSPECTIVE: THE SURGICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY 2014: LEADING EDGE RESEARCH FROM YOUNG SURGEONS
  L Delbridge, R Hanney Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 2015, 85, p208
• PERSPECTIVE: DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED TRAINING PATHWAY FOR CLINICAL ACADEMICS: NOTES FROM THE FIRST BINATIONAL SUMMIT MEETING
  J Windsor, J Searle, R Hanney, A Chapman, M Grigg, P Choong, A Mackay, B M Smithers, S Carney, J Smith, Z Wainer, N Talley, M Gladman
  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 2015, 85, pp 398-9
• BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE CLINICAL ACADEMIC WORKFORCE TO MEET THE FUTURE HEALTHCARE NEEDS OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: REPORT FROM THE FIRST SUMMIT MEETING
  J Windsor, J Searle, R Hanney, A Chapman, M Grigg, P Choong, A Mackay, B. M. Smithers, J Churchill, S Carney, J Smith, Z Wainer, N Talley, M Gladman
• Internal Medicine Journal, 2015, 45 (9) pp 965-971
• IS THE MELBOURNE MD A MISNOMER?
  RM Hanney (Letter) Medical Journal of Australia 2013, 197 (11/12): 617
• DEVELOPING ACADEMIC SURGEONS – THE FOCUS OF A NEW COURSE
  RM Hanney, AG Hill, SA LeMaire, AR Van Rij, JA WindsorAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 2009, 79, pp 872-875
• TRAINING TO BE A SURGEON – ISSUES NOW AND IN THE FUTURE AFFECTING THE TRAINING OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF SURGEONS IN AUSTRALIA
  DH Amott and RM Hanney Ann R Coll Surg Engl (Suppl) 2006; 88: 320–322
• COMMENT: SAFETY IN LAPAROSCOPY
  R Hanney Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery (1999) 69: 413
• VASCULAR INJURIES DURING LAPAROSCOPY ASSOCIATED WITH THE HASSON TECHNIQUE
  RM Hanney, HL Carmalt, N Merrett, N Tait Journal of the American College of Surgeons (1999); 188 (3): 337
• USE OF THE HASSON CANNULA PRODUCING MAJOR VASCULAR INJURY AT LAPAROSCOPY
  R Hanney, N Merrett, H Carmalt, N Tait Surgical Endoscopy (1999), 13; 12: 1238 – 1240
• LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY – THE MISSED DIAGNOSIS
  R Hanney, G Bond, A de Costa Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 1997, 67, pp 166-7
• MAJOR VASCULAR INJURY AND LAPAROSCOPY
  R Hanney, K Alle, P Cregan Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 1995, 65, 533-5

• RACS Certificate of outstanding service – Bronze – Younger Fellows Committee. 2009
• RACS Certificate of outstanding service – Silver – NSW State Committee. 2009
• Winner of the ASC Rural Surgery Prize for best paper in Section 1997

• Visiting Professor to University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery, November 2015
• Visiting Professorship from RACS to Association for Academic Surgery/ Society of University Surgeons joint Academic Surgical Congress 2010 San Antonio, Texas
• Visiting Professorship from RACS to Association for Academic Surgery/ Society of University Surgeons joint Academic Surgical Congress 2008 Los Angeles, California

• National Demonstration Hospitals Project – Broken Hill Base Hospital 1997
• Chairman, Operating Theatre Management Committee – Broken Hill Base Hospital 1997
• Remote Medicine Clinical Training Committee of University of Sydney Dept. of Rural Health 1997
• Medical Staff Council – Broken Hill Base Hospital 1997
• Westmead Hospital Trauma Service 1992-96
• Royal Prince Alfred Hospital RMO’s committee 1988, 1989

• Elected Federal AMA Council representing Craft group of Surgery 2010 – 2011
• Member Federal Ethics and Medicolegal Committee 2010 – 2011
• Elected NSW Councillor for Western Sydney Metropolitan Zone 2008, 2009 – 2013
• NSW AMA Hospital Practice Committee co-opted 2007 – 8, council representative 2009 – 2013
• Invited Surgical Representative AMA National Congress 2007, 2008, 2009
• Nominated spokesperson during medical indemnity crisis 2004
• Member 1988-current

Nominated Roles

• Convener of “Developing a Career in Academic Surgery”, Perth 2010, Adelaide 2011, Kuala Lumpur 2012, Auckland 2013
• Ex-Officio Member of Executive, Section of Academic Surgery 2010-11
• Convener of Inaugural course – “Developing a Career in Academic Surgery”, Brisbane, 2009
• Nominated member RACS NSW Continuing Education Subcommittee 2007 – 2008
• Convener, Inaugural Younger Fellows and Trainees Dinner, ASC Sydney, 2006
• Co-Convener with Ian Civil, RACS Trainees Association, 2005
• NSW representative to Premier’s Roundtable meeting on Medical Workforce 2004
• Convenor, Younger Fellows Working Party reviewing 3+2 General Surgical Training Program, 2003-2004
• Facilitator, Registrars Papers Day Sub-Committee of NSW State Committee 2003, 2004
• Coordinator for General Surgery, FRACS Part 2 exams, Westmead Hospital 2003
• Convenor, NSW Preparation for Practice Seminar 2003.
• NSW Dept. of Health General Practice Procedural Training Advisory Group 2002 – RACS representative
• NSW Representative Younger Fellows Committee 2002 – 2004
• Younger Fellows Representative co-opted to NSW State Committee 2002 – 2004

• RACS Section of Academic Surgery
• Foundation Member Australasian Trauma Society
• Australian and New Zealand Association for the Surgery of Trauma
• Gastroenterological Society of Australasia
• General Surgeons Australia
• Sydney Upper Gastrointestinal Surgical Society
• Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group
• Association for Academic Surgery – member International courses Task Force 2009 – current
• MIGA Medical Indemnity 2008 – current
• Invited First line reviewer for Combined Hospitals Audit of Surgical Mortality in NSW

• Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
• The Medical Journal of Australia
• New England Journal of Medicine
• Journal of Surgical Research
• Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery