Associate Professor and Head of Unit
Upper GI surgery
Royal Adelaide Hospital
MBBS, MS, FRACS, Masters Clin Trials (R), AFRACMA
Dr. Harsh Kanhere is a Clinical Associate Professor and the Head of Upper Gastrointestinal (Upper GI) Surgery at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He also serves as a Senior Consultant Surgeon specializing in Upper GI and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Having completed his General Surgical training in Pune, India in 1999, he undertook a 4-year fellowship in Surgical Oncology at the prestigious Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India (2003). He was awarded a scholarship as a visiting observer at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital New York, USA which he undertook in November- December 2003. He migrated to Australia and pursued further fellowship training in HPB and UGI surgery at the Flinders medical Centre and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. In 2007 having completed FRACS, he was appointed as a Consultant Surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in UGI/HPB surgery.
He has subsequently been appointed as the Head of UGI Surgery unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (2018).
His private rooms are at ADELAIDE PRIVATE SURGEONS, ST ANDREWS MEDICAL CENTRE Level 2, 321 South Terrace Adelaide. Harsh operates at ASHFORD and ST ANDREWS Hospitals for private patients.
His main Clinical interests are Oesophageal and gastric cancer surgery, Pancreatic cancer Surgery, Laparoscopic (minimally invasive) Bariatric surgery, Laparoscopic Upper GI surgery (hiatus hernia, reflux, endoscopies) and Liver resections. He has significant research interests and has completed a Masters in Clinical trials and research with University of Sydney. He has over 80 peer reviewed publications in the field of General and HPB/UGI surgery. He regularly provides guidance to medical students, Surgical trainees and post – graduate students in their research projects.
Harsh has significant organisational experience having been the convenor for the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons twice. He has also been a part of many local and internationally organised meetings and conferences as an invited speaker, moderator and convenor