Prof Jonathan Karpelowsky

Jonathan is a paediatric surgeon and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. His appointments are at the Northern Beaches Hospital, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Following a period training in thoracic surgery he undertook both his adult and paediatric surgical fellowships, completing this in 2006, which was followed by the completion of his PhD. He is a a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) and is heavily involved in the activities of the college. He is passionate about teaching, education and research. He is the immediate past chairperson and still serves on the for the Board of Paediatric surgery, which supervises paediatric surgical training across both Australia and New Zealand.

He is a Associate Professor at the University of Sydney and regularly tutors undergraduate and postgraduate students towards higher degrees. He has served and currently serves on a number of committees including the, Sydney Children’s Network Human Research Ethics committee, The Section of Academic Surgery (Deputy Chairperson) and runs The Developing a Career in Academic Surgery Course. He is group lead for a basic science research laboratory looking at paediatric cancer. Other research interests are long term follow up in thoracic conditions of childhood, tissue oxygen monitoring in paediatric patients and randomized trials in childhood surgical conditions. These have led to over 70 publications and 20 textbook chapters.

A/Prof Karpelowsky is committed to compassionate, holistic patient and family-centred care. He has a broad range of paediatric surgical clinical interests with a focus on general paediatric surgery, minimally invasive surgery in both the abdomen and the chest, thoracic conditions of childhood and paediatric oncology.