Faculty

Merwe Hartslief graduated from medical school in 1997 and graduated from surgical training in 2006 in South Africa and worked in private practice for 6 yrs before emigrating to Australia.

Currently working full time in public service at Cairns hospital as a general surgeon.

My interests are trauma surgery, austere medicine, laparoscopic surgery and the unique challenges of regional and rural surgery. I enjoy being a true generalist and try to stay current in most aspects of general surgery.

I am also serving in the Army Reserves as a military trauma surgeon.

The following surgeons have attended as faculty during previous ASE courses.

• Alan de Costa OAM FRACS
• Roxanne Wu FRACS
• Merwe Hartslief M.B.Ch.B.  M.Med FRACS
• Tim Elston FRACS
• Casper Pretorius FRACS, MB ChB, M Med (Surg), FCS(SA)
• Harish Kumar MBBS, FRCS [ED], MD, MS, FRCS, MBA, FRACS
• Heng-Chin Chiam FRACS, FICS, MMed (Clin Epi)
• Anthony Leslie BSc, MBBS, FRACS (Vasc)
• John Knott MBBS FRCS FRACS
• Sherab Bhutia MBBS MS FRCS FRACS (Vascular)
• Ben Woolven BSc BMBS FRACS
• Sivasuriya Sivaganesh MS (Col) FCSSL FRCS (Eng & Edin) PhD (Cantab)
• Meei Yeung MBBS FRACS
• Suki Ahluwalia BSc, MBBS, MSc, DOHNS, FRCS (Eng), FRACS
• Rajeev Parameswaran BSc MBBS FRCS MPhil FRCS
• Andrew Hattam BSc(Hons) MBBS GradDipAppAnatDiss PhD
• Simon Pridgeon FRCS
• Pieter Prinsloo FRACS
• Richard Hanney MBBS FRACS FACS
• Julie Howle MBBS MS FRACS
• Nathan Brunott FRACS
• Angela Robson FRACS
• Skandarupan Jayaratnam MBBS FRANZCOG
• Pranavan Palamuthusingam MBBS FRACS
• Omar Mansour FRACS
• Ken Loi FRACS
• Eddie Shi FRACS
• Boris Ruggiero FRACS
• Gamal Moosa FRACS
• Kamal Heer FRCS FRACS
• Larry Perret FRACS
• Aloka Pathirana FRCS
• Bawantha Gamage FRCS
• Deepaka Weerasekera FRCS
• Simon Curley FRACS
• Ajay John Fracs
• Sabu Thomas FRACS
• Sanjeev Naidoo FRACS
• Ajith Malalesekera FRCS
• AJ Green FRACS