Professor Justin Gundara is a specialist General Surgeon and academic sub-specialist in endocrine surgery. He maintains a Staff Specialist position with Metro South, QLD Health and has academic appointments with the University of Queensland and Griffith University. As the Clinical Lead in Surgery at Logan Clinical School he maintains a strong interest in clinical teaching and pragmatic surgical research. He is heavily involved in professional development, governance and surgical training through his work with the Australian and New Zealand Endocrine Surgeons sub-specialty body and RACS. He is the only Queensland clinician involved in publishing bi-national (Australia/NZ) hyperparathyroidism guidelines and is responsible for the inaugural post-fellowship training program in Endocrine Surgery throughout Australia and New Zealand.   

Justin grew up in the Hills District of Sydney and went on to complete Honours Degrees in Applied Science and Medicine. He was based at Royal North Shore Hospital during surgical training and completed doctoral studies with the world renowned Sydney University Endocrine Surgical Unit investigating neuroendocrine disease. He subsequently obtained Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and undertook fellowship training in HPB surgery (ANZHPBA). Dedicated endocrine surgery training followed in the UK (Senior Clinical Fellow in Endocrine Surgery; University College London Hospital, London). Here he expanded clinical horizons with exposure to paediatric endocrine surgery (Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London) and attended the European Neuroendocrine Tumour Summer School (Royal Free Hospital, London). He also underwent additional training in minimally invasive and robotic endocrine surgery (IRCAD Strasbourg, France).

Professor Gundara’s holistic training in the endocrine surgical discipline spans the breadth of thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal and pancreatic disease. State of the art training in surgical techniques (including the robotic platform) ensures that Professor Gundara is equipped to deal with all endocrine pathologies with the most appropriate surgical approach tailored to both the patient and disease.