Conference International Speakers 2025

Sarah E. Smith is a general surgeon and is affiliated with Alaska Native Medical Center. She graduated from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and has expertise in treating colonoscopy, upper gi endoscopy, surgical removal of colon, among other conditions

Michael qualified 1981 from University College Galway Ireland, with many undergraduate awards. After 8 years of training in Ireland he went to Australia and during his 20 years at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney, where he was academic Professor of Surgery at University of New South Wales, Trauma Director at Liverpool Hospital he obtained his MD in 2002 for his work on Intra-abdominal Pressure and Renal Failure, on which he has published widely.

Michael is currently Emergency and Breast Surgeon in Letterkenny Hospital and Galway University Hospital Ireland. He has developed many courses in Emergency Surgery, including EASC and student EASC and Difficult Open Abdomen. The EASC course is now one of the world’s most popular Emergency Abdominal Surgery Course and taught in 10 countries.

Dr Kate Martin completed her General Surgical Training in 2005. She completed her Fellowship training in General Surgery and Trauma at the Alfred, Western and Royal Melbourne Hospitals. Kate is now a General and Trauma Surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

She is a director with the Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) and Definitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC) faculties, and is the immediate-past supervisor of the General Surgical Training Program at the Alfred Hospital. Kate is the President of ANZAST, and immediate-past Chair of the EMST Committee. She is also a member of the Federal and Victorian State Trauma Committees of RACS, as well as the DSTC Committee.

She is an instructor with the Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) faculty, at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and is the Supervisor of General Surgical Training at The Alfred.

Dr Sunder Balasubramaniam graduated from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (National University of Singapore) in 2009 and completed his Residency in General Surgery (National Healthcare Group) in 2018.

He is a Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon with an interest in Endocrine Surgery. He was awarded the Health Manpower Development Program (HMDP) scholarship by the Ministry of Health in 2019 to further his training in trauma and acute care surgery.

Apart from surgery, he has a keen interest in medical education and surgical training. He has been actively involved in co-ordinating and reviewing the trauma courses in the TTSH Trauma Training Centre. This is to ensure that our courses remain current and relevant in both content and method of teaching/training.

In December 2019, he planned and conducted a public forum on Personal Mobility Devices (PMDs) in a bid to educate the public on its safe use and the dangers they posed to pedestrians/road users. This has led to increased public and governmental awareness, influencing public policies governing the use of PMDs.

Brendan Moran is a Consultant Surgeon, Peritoneal Malignancy Unit, Basingstoke, UK. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton Cancer Sciences Division, and honorary Professor of Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney. He was President of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) 2018-2019. He has delivered 10 named Lectures and over 200 other contributions to international societies.

He established the UK National Peritoneal Malignancy Centre in Basingstoke in 2000 and introduced treatment for peritoneal malignancy to the British Isles. He has developed the service into the largest unit in the world.  He was lead surgeon for the English Multidisciplinary Team – Total Mesorectal Excision (MDT-TME) program between 2003-06, The English Low Rectal Cancer (LOREC) program from 2010-13 and the Significant Polyp Early Colorectal Cancer (SPECC) program between 2015-17. He helped design and instigate the IMPACT (Improving Management for Patients with Advanced Colorectal Tumours) Program, 2018-2020.