Dr Richard Haddad

Dr Richard Haddad is a senior Urological Surgeon - admitted as a Specialist Surgeon in February 2012. Dr Richard Haddad was born and raised in Sydney. He attended St. Patrick’s College, Strathfield where he was the 1995 HSC Dux. He went directly into undergraduate medicine at The University of Newcastle, NSW, and completed medical school by 2000. In 2001, he completed internship, PGY2, PGY3 at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, and was early streamed into surgery. At first attempt, he was successful at the Primary Examination in surgery (RACS) in 2003.

He undertook one unaccredited year in general surgery at Hornsby Hospital, 2004. He was admitted into the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons advanced accredited General Surgery Training program for 3 years, 2005 - 2007, through the Prince of Wales / Bankstown Hospitals network. He was 6 months short of becoming a fully qualified general surgeon, however switched to Urology (Sydney/NSW rotations, 2008 - 2010). He was successful, at first attempt, in the final Urology Fellowship examination in May 2010, where he was the senior urology registrar at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and where he was exposed to laparoscopic donor nephrectomy / transplant urology, and pelvic exenteration surgery.

He undertook two Fellowship years, prior to commencing specialist practice in Sydney in January 2013. The first Fellowship was local - Royal North Shore Hospital (2011), in Laparoscopy, General Urology, and Urological Cancers. The second Fellowship was overseas at the renowned McGill University Health Centre in Montreal Canada (2012), incorporating The Montreal General and The Jewish General Hospitals. This was a 12 month advanced training in Robotic Urological Cancer Surgery, where he was awarded a McGill University stipend to attend. He has completed a Master of Surgery through The University of Sydney (2006), where the dissertation in prostate cancer was awarded High Distinction. He has published multiple peer reviewed journal articles. 

Dr Haddad was one of the first Urologists to return to Sydney with an international pure robotic urologic cancer Fellowship. He has been a VMO Urological Surgeon (Locum) at Bansktown-Lidcombe Public Hospital (SWSLHD) since 2019, and continues to service public patients there, and is heavily involved in Urology registrar training