Dr Igor Banzic

Overview

Dr Igor Banzic has recently had the privilege of taking over Dr Michael Neale’s busy vascular practice at North Shore Private Hospital as Dr Neale has retired.

Dr Banzic is a Fellow of the European Board of Vascular Surgery (FEBVS) and a Fellow of Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS). He has 17 years’ experience in vascular surgery. He completed three postgraduate fellowships and trained in some of the preeminent hospitals in the world,

• Fellowship in complete thoracoabdominal aorta replacement using extracorporal circulation  at Memorial Hermann Hospital, Heart and Vascular Institute (Houston, Texas USA), and University Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)
• Fellowship in advanced endovascular procedures of aortic arch and thoracoabdominal aorta, at Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio USA), Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minnesota, USA),  University of Pittsburgh, Physicians Division of Vascular Surgery (Pennsylvania, USA)
• Fellowship in Kidney Transplantation at Royal North Shore Hospital (Sydney, Australia)

Dr Banzic can offer endovascular and open repair management of all vascular conditions. He has extensive experience in complex open and endovascular vascular reconstructions on thoracoabdominal aorta, aortic arch, and main visceral arteries. He has special interest in thoracoabdominal aortic surgery, advanced less invasive endovascular procedures, and complete venous pathology.

Igor has published his academic work extensively in more than 50 publications in highly regarded vascular journals, he also possesses a PhD in Vascular Surgery and has appeared as an invited lecturer on more than 50 vascular international vascular meeting and conferences.

Igor is a very positive person and full of life. He is a pilot and enjoys flying as much as vascular surgery. He is a passionate traveler and is very close to completing the list of visiting all 193 UN countries. He can talk for hours about piloting airplanes, traveling and scuba-diving as his third passion. He is a husband and father of two little girls.