Dr Sam O'Connor

Dr Sam O’Connor graduated with Honours from the University of Sydney in 2006 before moving to Brisbane in 2007.

In 2011 Dr O’Connor commenced training in gastroenterology in Townsville before returning to Princess Alexandra hospital in Brisbane for a further two years. His last year of formal advanced training was spent as the Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Motility Fellow.

Dr O’Connor undertook a fellowship in 2014 in advanced colonoscopy and complex polypectomy in the United Kingdom with the Gloucestershire NHS Trust and Dr John Anderson.

He has been faculty on National Endoscopy Training Initiative ‘Quality Colonoscopy Course’ for the past four years.  He is one of four physicians on the Australian Conjoint Committee for Recognition of Training in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and is the 2019 President of the Gastroenterology Society of Queensland.

Dr O’Connor has presented research at national and international meetings and has had several research papers published in International Endoscopy and Gastroenterology journals.

Diagnostic gastroscopy and colonoscopy including bowel cancer screening. Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Quality advanced colonoscopy and polypectomy.