Prof Paul Bannon (Cardio-thoracic Surgeon)
- Name
- Prof Paul Gerard Bannon
- Qualifications
- MBBS University of Sydney 1987
- FRACS
- Occupation
- Cardio-thoracic Surgeon
- Gender
- Male
- Medical Specialties
- Cardio-thoracic Surgery
Professor Paul Bannon is an adult cardiothoracic surgeon of international standing with clinical appointments at Royal Prince Alfred, Concord, Strathfield Private and Macquarie University Hospitals. Professor Bannon is the Head of Department of The Royal Prince Alfred Cardiothoracic Unit, holds the inaugural Professorial Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The University of Sydney, is the Chairman of The Baird Institute for Applied Heart and Lung Surgical Research, and the President-elect of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS). He is the co-Chairman of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Institute for Academic Surgery.
Professor Bannon graduated from the University of Sydney in 1987, completed a PhD from the same institution in 1998 and was awarded a FRACS (CTh) in 1998. He has a particular passion for translational research in the areas of congenital aortic and mitral valve disease, biomaterials and biocompatibility, limitation of blood product usage in cardiac surgery, the inflammatory response to bypass and the development of academic surgical careers and he is Co-Chair of the Cardiac Devices Committee for the Agency of Clinical Innovation for the Ministry of Health, NSW. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 scientific papers, published in peer-reviewed journals. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery, a Medline listed multimedia journal of cardiothoracic surgery.
Professor Bannon has a reputation as the ‘surgeons surgeon’ and has particular expertise in surgery of the aortic root and arch, high-risk re-do surgery, total-arterial coronary artery bypass grafting and surgery for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Hospital Affiliations
- Strathfield Private Hospital
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
- Concord Hospital
- Macquarie University Hospital
- Affiliated Clinics
- Sydney Heart & Lung Surgeons
- The Heart Care Centre
- Affiliated Organisations
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS)
- Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS)
- Topics
- High-risk re-do surgery
- Total-arterial coronary artery bypass grafting
- Surgery for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery
- Minithoracotomy and Da Vinci Mitral Valve Repair
- All arterial (BIMA) off pump coronary grafts
- Thoracic oncology
- VATS and DaVinci Lobectomy
- Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy
- Myocardial preservation research
- Surgery for ischaemic cardiomyopathy
- SVR ventricular remodelling
- Aortic Surgery
- Valve sparing surgery
Practice Locations
Sydney
- RPAH Medical Centre
- Address
- Suite 209 100 Carillon Avenue
Newtown NSW 2042
Australia
- Phone
- 02 9422 6090
- Fax
- 02 9422 6099
- The Heart Care Centre
- Address
- Macquarie University Hospital
Suite 406 Level 4
2 Technology Place
Macquarie University NSW 2109
Australia
- Phone
- 02 9422 6095
