Margaret Schnitzler
Associate Professor
Surgery
The University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
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 molecular genetics of colorectal cancer at the University of Sydney. A/Prof Schnitzler has a teaching appointment at the University of Sydney and is Sub-Dean for Surgery and Academic Coordinator for Surgery at the Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney.
Research Interest
Her main clinical interests are in familial colorectal cancer, anorectal conditions, faecal incontinence and pelvic floor disorders.
Publications
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A further investigation of combined mismatch repair and BRAFV600E mutation specific immunohistochemistry as a predictor of overall survival in colorectal carcinoma.
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Medullary Colorectal Carcinoma Revisited: A Clinical and Pathological Study of 102 Cases.
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Incisional hernia repair after caesarean section: a population-based study.
