Margaret Schnitzler MBBS, PhD, FRACS

Associate Professor Margaret Schnitzler is a specialist colorectal surgeon, Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and member of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand. She trained in surgery at Royal North Shore Hospital and obtained further specialist training in colorectal surgery at the Ferguson Clinic in Michigan, USA and the University of Toronto, Canada. She completed her PhD on the molecular genetics of colorectal cancer at the University of Sydney.

Her main clinical interests are in familial colorectal cancer, anorectal conditions, faecal incontinence and pelvic floor disorders.Prof Schnitzler has a teaching appointment at the University of Sydney and is Sub-Dean for Surgery and Academic Co-ordinator for Surgery at the Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney.