Dr Praveen Ravindran

Praveen Ravindran is a Consultant Colorectal & Robotic Surgeon with Australian Robotic Colorectal Surgery working through Sydney Adventist Hospital and East Sydney Private Hospital. On completion of his General Surgery training in 2017, he was appointed as the Fellow in Robotic Surgery at Liverpool Hospital in 2018 before being awarded a place in the two-year Post-Fellowship Colorectal Surgery training programme through the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ). Starting in 2019, he completed his first year of advanced training with the Colorectal and Pelvic Floor Unit at St George Hospital, where he gained wide exposure to laparoscopic colorectal surgery as well as pelvic floor and functional pathology. He then completed his fellowship with CSSANZ at Liverpool Hospital in 2020, where he gained advanced training in the management of locally advanced Colorectal malignancy and Complex Hernia Surgery. In 2021, he then became the Inaugural Robotic Colorectal Fellow at Sydney Adventist Hospital where he was mentored in Robotic Colorectal Surgery with Associate Professor Craig Lynch and Dr Stephen Pillinger of Australian Robotic Colorectal Surgery, who are one of Australia’s highest volume Robotic Colorectal groups. This is one the first positions of its kind in Robotic Surgery in Australia. Dr Ravindran is a member of CSSANZ and the Section of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.