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Our Academic Lead

Professor Justin Yeung is the Head of the Department of Surgery and holds the Chair of Surgery, Western Precinct, University of Melbourne. Professor Yeung is also a consultant colorectal surgeon at Western Health.

Justin graduated from Nottingham University in the U.K. and went on to complete his general surgical and colorectal specialist training in Nottingham.  He then underwent a pelvic floor fellowship in Sheffield, in the United Kingdom before being awarded a HCA International Foundation Scholarship which allowed him to complete a year’s specialist colorectal cancer fellowship at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.

Justin returned to the U.K. and worked at the University Hospitals of Leicester as a consultant colorectal and pelvic floor surgeon in 2010.  He was then awarded the honorary title of Senior Lecturer in 2016 with the University of Leicester.

In 2017, Justin became the Head of the Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, at Western Health, and since then has developed research interests in Colorectal Surgery in particular in the field of improving cancer outcomes through multidisciplinary collaboration.

Professor Yeung currently leads the Department of Surgery, AI Radiomics group at Western Precinct and is also the Education Committee Chair for the Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne.

Justin is keen to support and promote education and training in the clinical environment, in particular with the development of online educational materials.