Dr Charles Pilgrim (General Surgeon)
- Name
- Dr Charles Henry Caldow Pilgrim
- Qualifications
- MBBS Monash University 2000
- FRACS 2008
- Occupation
- General Surgeon
- Gender
- Male
- Medical Specialties
- General Surgery
- Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery
Dr Charles Pilgrim offers general and laparoscopic upper gastrointestinal surgery including laparoscopic hernia surgery as well specialist surgery for cancer and other disorders of the pancreas, liver, gallbladder and bile ducts. Dr Pilgrim graduated from Monash University in 2000 and entered surgical training at The Alfred, Melbourne. He gained his fellowship in General Surgery in 2007 and in 2008 was the Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery fellow at The Alfred before commencing his PhD though the University of Melbourne at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in 2009. He completed this in 2012 and then moved to the USA to complete a second fellowship as the Surgical Oncology fellow in Hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Centre. Dr Pilgrim has published extensively in many high impact factor peer-reviewed medical journals such as the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Annals of Surgery, Journal of the American Medical Association - Surgery, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery and the journal HPB (the journal of the International HPB association [IHPBA]), on the topics of pancreas cancer, liver cancer and gallbladder cancer, as well as laparoscopic surgery. He is a member of the IHPBA, the Americas HPB association (AHPBA), the Australian & New Zealand HPB association (ANZHPBA), the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) and the Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials group (AGITG). He is accredited by GESA to perform gastroscopy and colonoscopy. Dr Pilgrim works with the Victorian HPB Surgery group at Cabrini Medical Centre Malvern and at Winifred Street Consulting Suites Frankston and has appointments with the Upper GI Surgery – Hepatopancreaticobiliary Service at The Alfred, the Trauma Surgery Service at The Alfred and in General and Emergency Surgery at Frankston Hospital and Sandringham Hospital. He is a serving military surgeon with the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps and deployed to Afghanistan in 2010. He is a senior lecturer at Monash University and a Trauma instructor and examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He is also a member of the Academy of Surgical Educators with the College of Surgeons.
- Hospital Affiliations
- Frankston Hospital
- Cabrini Malvern
- Peninsula Private Hospital Victoria
- Affiliated Clinics
- Cabrini Medical Centre
- Affiliated Organisations
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- Australia and New Zealand Hepatic Pancreatic and Biliary Association (ANZHPBA)
- Topics
- Obesity Surgery
- Trauma
- Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery / Hepatopancreatobiliary
Practice Locations
Melbourne
- Cabrini Medical Centre
- Address
- Suite 29 183 Wattletree Rd
Malvern VIC 3199
Australia
