Michael Solomon
Professor
Colorectal Surgery
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Professor Michael Solomon is a Consultant Surgeon and Academic Head of the Department of Colorectal Surgery at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and Professor of Surgical Research at the RPA Institute of Academic Surgery and the University of Sydney, visiting Professor of Surgery at the National University of Singapore and is a past President of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia & New Zealand (CSSANZ). He is currently a Board Member of the NSW State Cancer Institute. He recently was awarded the prestigious RPA Foundation Research Medal in 2014 being the first surgeon to be given this honour and has delivered 12 named invited lectures both nationally and internationally over the past decade
Research Interest
EVIDENCE BASED SURGERY, RCT'S AND CLINICAL SURGICAL TRIALS, COLORECTAL SURGERY
Publications
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Al-Mozany, N., Wright, C., O'Grady, G., Young, C., Solomon, M. (2017). Barriers to the management of obstructed defaecation according to colorectal surgeons. Colorectal Disease, 19(7), 649-655
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McBride, K., Young, J., Bannon, P., Solomon, M. (2017). Assessing surgical research at the teaching hospital level. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 87(1-Feb), 70-7
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Ansari, N., Solomon, M., Fisher, R., Mackay, J., Burmeister, B., Ackland, S., Heriot, A., Joseph, D., McLachlan, S., McClure, B., et al (2017). Acute Adverse Events and Postoperative Complications in a Randomized Trial of Preoperative Short-course Radiotherapy Versus Long-course Chemoradiotherapy for T3 Adenocarcinoma of the Rectum: Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group Trial (TROG 01.04). Annals of Surgery, 265(5), 882-88
