Ms Karen Barclay

Female Colorectal and General Surgeon, Senior Lecturer in Surgery,

the University of Melbourne.

I combine technical expertise with compassion and an ability to communicate

in a way rarely seen in a surgeon. I have a clinical interest in peri-operative

care and an holistic approach to post-operative recovery.

I trained in New Zealand and became a Fellow of the Royal Australian

College of Surgeons (RACS) in 2007 in General Surgery. After my Fellowship

I undertook specialty training in Colorectal Surgery at Guys and St Thomas’s

and UCLH, London followed by Fremantle Hospital, WA and the Austin,

Melbourne (where I was the Colorectal Fellow in 2009) with the Colorectal

Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ).

I have been instrumental in design of the current General Surgical curriculum

for the University of Melbourne and teach medical students at the Northern

Centre for Health, Education and Research. My research interests include

improving the pathway prior to diagnosis of colorectal cancer, measuring and

improving surgical standards, service optimisation and efficiency, optimising

psychology and physiology to improve outcome in colorectal surgery and

targeted community-based strategies to improve cancer outcomes. I am

currently on the working party for updating the NHMRC Guidelines for

Colorectal Cancer and Lead Author for the Chapter on Adenoma Surveillance

in the update for the NHMRC Colonoscopy Guidelines.

Colorectal & General Surgeon