Bhavesh Patel MBChB, FRACS, CHIA

Dr. Bhavesh Patel is a Paediatric Surgeon who was brought up in New Zealand and trained in major centers including Auckland, Wellington, and Hamilton before moving across to Australia and completing his training in Brisbane and Sydney. He holds appointments at Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital and Mater Children’s Private Brisbane. His specialty expertise includes pediatric surgery, neonatal surgery, pediatric urology, burns, and trauma, with special interests in hypospadias, hernia, and orchiopexy.

He is a keen teacher and is an active senior lecturer with the University of Queensland School of Medicine, a faculty member of the Academy of Surgical Educators with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and a co-founder of the Australasian Paediatric Surgery Research Interest Group.

He holds memberships with the Australia and New Zealand Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the Society of Paediatric Urologists of Australia and New Zealand, the International Paediatric Endosurgery Group, the Australia and New Zealand Burns Association, and the International Children’s Continence Society.