Dr Andrew Eakin

Andrew has a Medical Degree (1998) and Masters of Public Health (2001) from Sydney University. His physician training was carried out at Royal North Shore Hospital with subspecialty training in gastroenterology and hepatology at Nepean Hospital and St George Hospital. Andrew is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP).

Since 2006, he has been practicing in Port Macquarie. Dr Eakin’s practice involves all areas of intestinal and liver disease, including diagnosis and management of Chron's disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Coeliac disease, iron deficiency, gut motility disorders, chronic constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic diarrhea and swallowing difficulty.

He also investigates liver disease, including chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C infection, and manages patients with liver cirrhosis.

He is trained in diagnostic and interventional endoscopy procedures, including gastroscopy, colonoscopy and capsule endoscopy (PillCam). He has a particular interest in providing high quality colonoscopy procedures for optimal detection of colon polyps and prevention of bowel cancer.

Dr Eakin also undertakes on-call services as a general physician at Port Macquarie Base Hospital, where he is Head of Department (Gastroenterology) and also provides consultations, inpatient treatment and emergency and planned endoscopy services there.

He undertakes regular endoscopy at Kempsey Hospital and Wauchope hospital and has an appointment at Port Macquarie Private Hospital, where he performs gastroscopy and colonoscopy for privately-insured and self funding patients.

Dr Eakin, along with Hepatitis C nurse Jane Van Der Jagt and Hepatitis C counsellor Lynelle Wood, established the local Hepatitis C treatment clinic in 2009.

As regional examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, he has organised the RACP examinations in Port Macquarie annually since 2008, which assesses the next generation of specialist physicians.