Dr Kate Stringer completed her Fellowship in General Surgery at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in 2006. Kate was awarded the Ramsay Health Fellowship for 2007 and undertook subspecialty training in Breast and Endocrine surgery at the RBWH, North West Private and Wesley Hospitals under Professor Ian Gough and Dr Colin Furnival.

Dr Stringer completed her post fellowship training in this field in 2007 and spent a year furthering her experience in a locum position at John Flynn Hospital and Tweed Heads Hospital before commencing private practice at North West Hospital in February 2009.

Dr Stringer has held a public appointment as a General, Breast & Endocrine surgeon at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital since 2008.

Dr Stringer has special interests in:

• General surgery
• Breast surgery including benign disease, cancer management and sentinel node biopsy
• Thyroid and parathyroid surgery including minimally invasive techniques