SWEC - Faculty

Faculty Laparoscopic Fellows are attached to the SWEC unit for a period of two years and participate in all aspects of the course, including teaching. Fellows have been training with SWEC since 1995 and have hailed from leading medical centres in Australia and overseas.
	Dr Gregory M Cario MBBS FRANZCOG is a founder and director of SWEC. He is one of the pioneers of advanced laparoscopic surgery in A ustralia and was one of the first surgeons to perform the laparoscopic Burch colposuspension, laparoscopic tubal reanastomosis and laparoscopic mesh sacrocolpopexy procedures. He has performed over 500 laparoscopic Burch colposuspensions, 500 total laparoscopic hysterectomies and a very large number of pelvic floor reconstructions. He has published extensively on all aspects of laparoscopic surgery. He lectures, demonstrates and preceptors widely at conferences in Australia and overseas.
	Dr Mark Carlton MBBS BScAg FRCOG FRANZCOG is a founder and director of SWEC. He is a pioneer of laparoscopic surgery in Australia and one of the most senior laparoscopic surgeons in the country. He has a wealth of experience in traditional gynaecological surgery as well as advanced laparoscopic surgery over the last 10 years, resulting in his pioneering work in laparoscopic Burch colposuspension, total laparoscopic hysterectomy and pelvic floor reconstructions. He has published widely on laparoscopic surgery, and helped to develop the very popular CarIton/SWEC knot pusher.
	Professor Michael Chapman MB BS MD FRCOG FRANZCOG CREI is a founder and director of SWEC. Trained in Adelaide, he then moved to the UK where he developed extensive experience. He became Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University of London however after 15 years returned as Professor at the UNSW at St George Hospital. He has run IVF services in London, Naples, Jeddah and Sydney. He currently runs his own private obstetric practice as well as continuing to care for women in the public sector. His other interests include infertility and reproductive endocrinology. Professor Chapman lectures regularly at national and international meetings, he has published in excess of eighty peer-reviewed papers and been involved in a number of textbooks and lay publications.
	Dr David Rosen MBBS FRANZCOG was the first SWEC Research Fellow, completing his training over two years in the unit before going overseas to further his experience. After publishing and presenting widely on laparoscopic surgery at major Australian and overseas conferences, he returned to take up a post as specialist laparoscopic surgeon at SWEC. He has extensive experience in all aspects of laparoscopic surgery and has helped to train doctors and to popularise the hysteroscopic Essure technique throughout Australia. He is a major contributor to the workshop and runs the Registrar training course.
	Dr Danny Chou MBBS MRCOG FRANZCOG was the second SWEC Research Fellow, completing his training over two years in the unit before going overseas to further his experience. His video presentations of surgery and anatomy are legendary both in Australia and overseas, where he has presented widely. He has also published extensively on all aspects of laparoscopic surgery. He returned to Australia take tip a post as a specialist laparoscopic surgeon at SWEC and is a major contributor to the research training and workshop of SWEC.
	Dr Michael Cooper FRANZCOG is a Visiting Medical Officer and Head of endoscopic surgery at King George V Hospital and has appointments to St Vincent 's Private Hospital and St Luke's Hospital. He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sydney University and Head of Gynaecology at St Luke's Hospital. His major clinical and research interests are in the use of endoscopic surgery, particularly the treatment of endometriosis, and he has performed over 1000 advanced laparoscopic procedures including excision of endometriosis, hysterectomy, colposuspension, pelvic floor reconstruction and lymph node dissection.
	Dr Geoffrey D Reid MBBS MRCOG FRACOG is a gynaecologist in practice in Central Sydney , South West Sydney and the Southern Highlands of NSW. He is the director of Gynaecological Endoscopy ay Liverpool Hospital , and has appointments at St Luke's Hospital - Potts Point, Hurstville Private Hospital - Hurstville, Southern Highlands Prive Hospital - Bowral, John James Memorial Hospital - Canberra and The Wesley Hospital - Brisbane. His major interest is the treatment of women with endometriosis. More recently he has returned to the treatment of couples requiring Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART/IVF) - a service that many women with endometriosis require.