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Dr Peter Pockney is a colorectal and general surgeon at Newcastle Private Hospital. He is a conjoint senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle and an Associate Professor of Surgery at UWA. Peter was previously the senior lecturer in surgery at the University of Newcastle for 10 years and continues as a member of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Digestive Health located at HMRI in Newcastle. His medical school training was at UCL in the UK (Distinction in Surgery) with junior and advanced training also in the UK. He completed his fellowship in Colorectal Surgery here in Newcastle.
CI Pockney has extensive translational and clinical research interests, including currently supervising 8 PhD students in surgically related projects with basic scientists and other medical discipline areas at the University of Newcastle. He also has extensive research projects with colleagues across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the throught the GlobalSurg Network internationally.