Dr Sandra Krishnan (General Surgeon)
- Name
- Dr Sandra Krishnan
- Qualifications
- FRACS 2009
- Masters General Surgery 2003
- Occupation
- Senior Consultant Breast Surgical Oncologist and General Surgeon
- Gender
- Female
- Languages Spoken
- English
- Malay
- Tamil
- Medical Specialties
- Breast Surgery, Melanoma and Advanced Skin Cancer Surgery, General Surgery, Gastroscopy, Colonoscopy
Dr Sandra Krishnan is a Senior Consultant Breast Surgical Oncologist and General Surgeon at the Sydney Adventist Hospital, Calvary Bruce Private Hospital, Canberra and South East Regional Hospital (SERH), Bega. Her areas of expertise include Breast Cancer Surgery, Melanotic and Advanced non-melanotic skin cancer surgery and a wide range of general surgery and laparoscopic procedures, including for diseases of the Gallbladder, Abdominal wall hernia and Therapeutic and Diagnostic endoscopy.
She is also Clinical Senior Lecturer for ANU Medical School, Canberra, Co President of the Provincial Surgeons Association, Australia and Senior Instructor of Early Management of Severe Trauma Instructor - Royal Aust College of Surgeons (RACS). She sits on the board of So Brave Australia’s Young Women’s Breast Cancer Charity as a Non Executive DIrector. She is a Mentor for medical students, Australasian Student Surgical Association (ASSA). She has writing partnerships with Healthcert and is an op Ed Writer for Oncology and Medical Republic. She is founder of Note to Myself, What I wish I knew in my 20s, an empowering online program for young women.
She is Co-President of Provincial Surgeons of Australia and was recently co-convenor of the 56th Annual Provincial Surgeons of Australia 2020 Annual Scientific Conference (Now 2021 August). She is also a CHASM (Collaborating Hospitals' Audit of Surgical Mortality) First Line Assessor.
Her Professional Bodies Memberships include BreastSurgANZ, Australia New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group, Australasian Society for Breast Disease, ACT & SE NSW Breast Cancer Treatment Group, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - Women in Surgery, Academy of Surgical Educators, Surgical Oncology Group, Australia and New Zealand Melanoma Trials Group and she has GESA Accreditation for Gastroscopy and Colonoscopy
- Hospital Affiliations
- Sydney Adventist Hospital
- Calvary Private Hospital Bruce
- Affiliated Clinics
- Dr Sandra Krishnan
- Affiliated Organisations
- Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS)
- Healthcert
- So Brave
- Affiliated Universities
- Australian National University (ANU)
- Medical Conditions
- Cancer and benign conditions for surgery
- Medical Interventions
- Breast cancer surgery and reconstruction
- Breast Cancer Managements
- Breast surgery for benign disease and cancer
- Melanoma Resection and Flap Closure
- Skin Cancer Surgery (including melanoma)
- Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Laparoscopic
- Hernia Repair, Laparoscopic
- Gastroscopy, Diagnostic and Therapeutic
- Colonoscopy, Diagnostic and Therapeutic
- Topics
- Breast Cancer
- Melanoma & Skin Cancer Surgery
- * Laparoscopic surgical procedures
- * Endoscopies (gastroscopy, colonoscopy, GESA certified)
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Practice Locations
Sydney
- Northern Surgical Oncology
- Weekday: -
- Address
- Sydney Adventist Hospital, Suite 404 185 Fox Valley Rd
Wahroonga NSW 2076
Australia
- Phone
- 02 94675400
Publications
- A rare case of lobular breast cancer metastasising to large bowel https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ccr3.4081
- Barium peritonitis--following barium enema of the proximal colon through a colostomy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15190666/
- Peer reviewer- Rural and Remote Health https://www.rrh.org.au/
