Dr Rohan Gett is a highly respected colorectal surgeon who has been a consultant at St Vincent’s Hospital for 14 years. In this time over 8,000 successful operations and procedures have been performed. Dr Gett’s professional interests include the surgical management of colon and rectal cancer and the management of inflammatory bowel disease and anorectal disorders.
Dr Gett graduated with honours from the University of NSW in 1995 and started at St Vincent’s Private and Public Hospitals and St Vincent’s Clinic in 2007. Dr Gett practises as both a general and colorectal surgeon and lecturer in surgery for the St Vincent’s Clinical School at the University of New South Wales.
Dr Gett is the Director of Medical Student Education for the Clinical School. As well as teaching, he has published many research papers through the University of NSW and has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in Surgery in 2019.
Dr Gett underwent ten years of surgical training after his internship and residency at Concord Hospital in 1996. Dr Gett received his Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Fellowship (RACS) in 2005 whilst practising at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. He completed his Masters of Surgery at Sydney University in 2008 and has extensive training in the management of colon and rectal cancer surgery and the management of the inflammatory bowel diseases: ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.
Dr Gett established the Colorectal Cancer Multidisciplinary Meeting at St Vincent’s Hospital in 2007 by coordinating the talents of surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, anatomical pathologists, genetic counsellors, stomal therapists, dieticians, social workers, nurses and allied health staff. The multidisciplinary team has reviewed and streamlined the management of over 2000 patients since its inception. Dr Gett continues to chair this meeting and ensures that management plans reflect the consensus of the members.
Dr Gett’s outpatient practice in St Vincent’s Clinic includes both public and private patients. The aim is to provide comprehensive treatment for all patients. He undertakes open and minimally invasive surgery using not only laparoscopic techniques but also robotic techniques. Bowel resections, hernia repairs and rectopexy operations are therefore performed through minimal access techniques, reducing post-operative pain, shortening hospital stay and hastening the return to work.
Since 2018, Dr Gett has also practised at Sydney Gut Clinic and Alexandria Day Surgery Hospital with gastroenterologists: Dr Suhirdan Vivekanandarjah, Dr Clare Wu, Dr Vi Nguyen and Dr Andrew Kim. Here gastroscopy, colonoscopy and a wide array of minor colorectal operations are undertaken.
Associate Professor Mark Danta is part of Dr Rohan Gett’s multidisciplinary team. He is a highly respected specialist gastroenterologist and hepatologist within the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. Dr Danta treats gastrointestinal and liver disorders. Specifically, he treats gastrointestinal and liver tumours, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD, Crohns and ulcerative colitis), coeliac disease, hepatitis, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. Dr Danta provides colonoscopy, endoscopy and Fibroscan (non-invasive liver biopsy) procedures at St Vincent’s Public and Private Hospitals.
A/Prof Danta is the author of many research papers and coordinates several research programs in the Centre of Applied Medical Research at St Vincent’s Hospital. Some of his papers can be found here.
