Best Gastroenterology in Werribee
Prof Ashley Miller
Gastroenterology
Dr Mark Lust
Gastroenterology
University and completed his basic physician training at the Alfred Hospital. He undertook specialist training in Gastroenterology at Box Hill, The Royal Melbourne and St. Vincents Hospitals and was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians in 2005. Mark was awarded a PhD by the University of Melbourne in 2008 for his research in the field of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. In 2009, he completed a Clinical Fellowship at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK, before returning to clinical practice in Melbourne.
Professor Britt Christensen
Gastroenterology
public practice at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and private practice in East Melbourne. Britt’s main area of expertise is in the inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis. She has a particular interest in adolescent and transitional care in IBD and pregnancy and IBD. She is also highly experienced in investigating and managing all gastroenterological complaints including iron deficiency anaemia, gastrointestinal bleeding, bowel cancer screening, coeliac disease and liver disorders.
Dr Elliot Freeman
Gastroenterology
liver disease. He investigates and manages patients with all gastrointestinal disorders, consulting and performing gastroscopy & colonoscopy at Hobson Healthcare, Werribee. He graduated with Honours from Monash University in 2013 and completed his advanced gastroenterology training at The Alfred and St Vincents Hospitals, culminating in a 2-year Clinical Hepatology Fellowship.
Dr Niranjan Arachchi
Gastroenterology
of liver diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases and general gastroenterology. He had been a full time gastroenterologist and a physician at Western Health since 2009-2018. He is currently a visiting gastroenterologist at Western Health. He graduated from University of Melbourne in 1997 and completed his FRACP in 2006. He was a postgraduate research fellow at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne from 2007-2009. Dr Arachchi also has masters degree in clinical epidemiology from University of Sydney.
What does gastroenterology mean?
Gastroenterology is a branch of internal medicine that deals with diseases of the stomach, intestines, liver, biliary tract, pancreas and metabolic diseases. Gastroenterologists are specialists who, after completing their 7 years of medical specialist training, have completed additional special training in the field of digestive disorders and who have passed a final examination as gastroenterologists.
What exactly does a gastroenterologist do?
The gastroenterologist is a doctor who specializes in all organs of the digestive tract, i.e. the esophagus, the stomach, the small and large intestines, the liver, gallbladder and bile ducts, as well as the pancreas. It deals with the diagnosis, therapy and prevention of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
In medicine, gastroenterology refers to the study of the stomach and intestines. A gastroloenterologist deals with all diseases of the digestive tract, but is also the right contact for metabolic disorders and diseases of the pancreas or liver. The gastroenterologist can often help you with questions of nutrition, especially when it comes to intolerance to certain foods (for example lactose intolerance or intolerance to gluten, soy, etc.). He knows the causes of such intolerances and can give you advice on the right diet. What examinations does a gastroenterologist perform? Since gastroenterology deals exclusively with internal organs, many examinations and treatments are carried out endoscopically – for example gastroscopy, in which an endoscope (today mostly with a tiny camera through which the patient can follow the examination) through the esophagus and into the stomach is introduced. A gastroenterologist also performs a number of preventive measures; in other words, examinations for the early detection of diseases This also includes the colonoscopy, which can be necessary to detect various intestinal diseases or even colon cancer. Colonoscopies for the early detection of colon cancer are generally only recommended from the age of 50 onwards; in younger people, they are only performed if they have a family history.
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