Associate Professor Geoffrey Kohn
Overview
Geoff obtained his medical degree from Monash University and his Australian FRACS in 2007. He then undertook two sub-specialty clinical fellowships in world-leading surgical units in the United States, first in laparoscopy and advanced gastrointestinal surgery at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, and then in oesophageal surgery at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. As a faculty member of both these universities, he provided advanced management of upper gastrointestinal disease to his patients with an emphasis on minimally-invasive surgery. In 2014, he was awarded Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons.
Geoff also has a keen interest in academic surgery, with positions on multiple international surgical committees and on the editorial boards of various journals. He publishes regularly in the world-wide surgical literature, particularly in the areas of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GORD), and disease of the stomach and oesophagus. Geoff has a particular interest in "no-incision" gastrointestinal operations, such as the POEM procedure, and has mentored various surgeons and gastroenterologists in the technique and the related gastric G-POEM procedure, for conditions such as achalasia and gastroparesis..
Geoff works in the both the private and public hospital systems, operating at Cabrini Hospital, Knox Hospital and Eastern Health. He is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Monash University.
Geoff has published widely in the international surgical literature - for a current list of publications please see Geoff's curriculum vitae at Geoffrey Kohn — Monash University
- Upper Gastrointestinal-Hepatopancreatobiliary
- ANGMA
- SSAT
- SAGES
- ANZGOSA
- ISDE
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons FACS
- Masters of Surgery MSurg