Dr Owen Ung (General Surgeon)
- Name
- Dr Owen Allan Ung
- Qualifications
- FRACS 1993
- MBBS University of Queensland 1984
- Occupation
- General Surgeon
- Scientist - Researcher - Academia
- Gender
- Male
- Medical Specialties
- General Surgery
Professor Owen Ung is a breast cancer surgeon and also specialises in endocrine surgery which includes thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal conditions. He is a committed clinician, researcher and teacher and lectures and publishes widely. He is a principle investigator for a number of major Australian and New Zealand clinical trials relating to the management of the axilla and regional nodes in breast cancer.
Through the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, he plays an active role in surgical training, assessment and examination. After graduating from the University of Queensland, he worked in rural and metropolitan hospitals throughout the state then completed his advanced surgical training at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. From there he undertook a fellowship at Westmead Hospital in NSW then at the University of Wales College of Medicine in the UK as a lecturer in surgery. From 1995 to 2008 he has was a consultant surgeon at Westmead Hospital where he headed the Breast and Endocrine Surgical Unit and was Director of the department of general surgery.
He obtained a Clinical Associate Professorship with the University of Sydney. From the beginning of 2009 he returned to Queensland to head the Breast and Endocrine unit at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and join the academic department of surgery of the University of Queensland.
- Hospital Affiliations
- Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital
- The Wesley Hospital
- St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital
- Affiliated Clinics
- The Wesley Breast Clinic
- Specialist Services Medical Group QLD - Auchenflower
- Affiliated Organisations
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- Australian and New Zealand Endocrine Surgeons
- Society of Breast Surgeons of Australia and New Zealand (BreastSurgANZ)
- Affiliated Universities
- University of Queensland
- University of Sydney
- Medical Conditions
- Thyroid disease
- Parathyroid disease
- Breast cancer
- Topics
- Breast Surgery
- Endocrine Surgery
Practice Locations
QLD
- The Wesley Breast Clinic
- Address
- 451 Coronation Dr,
Auchenflower QLD 4066
Australia
- Phone
- (07) 3232 7202
- Fax
- 07 3232 7911
- Specialist Services Medical Group QLD - Auchenflower
- Address
- Sandford Jackson Building
Suite 52 Ground Floor
30 Chasely Street
Auchenflower QLD 4066
Australia
- Phone
- 07 3226 3800
- Fax
- 07 3870 3205
