Practice Contact Information

Monash University Endocrine Surgery Unit, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
Commercial Rd

Melbourne
Victoria
3004
Australia

Phone: +61 3 97811228
Email: [email protected]
Web Site:

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Areas of surgical specialization in Head and Neck Surgery

Endocrine Surgery, Head and Neck Research

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Biography/Statement

Jonathan Serpell is Professor and Director of General Surgery at The Alfred Hospital and Monash University as well as Director of the Breast, Endocrine and General Surgery Unit at The Alfred. His major research interest is in Endocrine Surgery, particularly in the anatomy and pathophysiology of the recurrent laryngeal nerve. He obtained his doctorate in Medicine by thesis on soft tissue sarcomas and desmoid tumours. He is a previous Senior Examiner at the Specialty Court in General Surgery of RACS and Past President of Australian and New Zealand Endocrine Surgeons. He is Specialty Editor for Endocrine Surgery for the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery and a member of the Editorial Board of World Journal of Surgery. He established the Monash University Endocrine Surgery Unit in 2007. He established and is Clinical Lead for the Australian and New Zealand Thyroid Cancer Registry in 2016. He obtained a Master of Education in 2011 by thesis in examination processes and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He was recently awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (ad hominem). He is a member of International Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons, American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Asia-Pacific Society of Thyroid Surgery, American Head and Neck Society, and the International Neural Monitoring Study Group.

Clinical Trials

Bibliography

1. Ioannou l, Serpell j, dean j et al

Development of a binational thyroid cancer clinical quality registry: a protocol paper

bmj open; 9:bmjopen – 2108- 023723. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen – 2018 – 023723

2. MAHER D, HII B, YEUNG M, GRODSKI S, SERPELL JW, LEE JC.

Thyroidectomy then and now – a 50year australian perspective.

world journal surgery  2019; 43:1022-1028

3. fundakowski ce, hales nw, agarwal n et al

Surgical Management of The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve In Thyroidectomy. American Head and          Neck Society Consensus Statement

Head Neck 2018; 40: 663-75

4. HEGGIE K, YEUNG M, GRODSKI S, LEE JC, SERPELL JW.

Total thyroidectomy for pressure symptoms in patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.

ANZ J Surg doi 10.1111/ans. 13943, 2017.

5. LEE J, BREEN D, SCOTT A, GRODSKI S, SERPELL JW.

A quantitative study of voice dysfunction after thyroidectomy. Surgery 2016. 160:1576-1581

6. LEE J, CHANG P, GRODSKI S, YEUNG M, JOHNSON W, SERPELL JW.

Temporal analysis of thyroid cancer management in a tertiary referral centre in Melbourne (2007-2013).  ANZ J Surg  2016. Doi 10.1111/ans 13972

7. SUTER KJ, GRODSKI S, LEE J, SERPELL JW.

Surgery for parathyroid micro-adenomas: patient characteristics, localization success, and operative cures.  ANZ J Surg  2016. Doi 10.1111/ans 13654

8.  GLICK R, MICHAIL P, CHANG P, SERPELL JW, GRODSKI S, LEE JC.

Body weight change is unpredictable after total thyroidectomy. ANZJSurg, 2018. Doi.org/10.1111/ans.14421

9. SERPELL JW.

Preventing hypoparathyroidism after total thyroidectomy. ANZ J Surg 2018; 88:127-128

10. LEE JC, ZHAO JT, GUNDARA J, SERPELL JW, BACH LA, SIDHU SB

Papillary thyroid cancer-derived exosomes contain miRNA-146b and miRNA- 222. J Surg Res. 2015 Jun 1;196(1)39-48

11. NORLEN O, WANG KC, TAY YK, JOHNSON WR, GRODSKI S, YEUNG M, SERPELL JW, SIDHU S, SYWAK M, DELBRIDGE L

No need to abandon focused parathyroidectomy: a multicentre study of long-term outcome after surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism. Ann Surg. 2015 May;261(5): 991-6.doi: 10.1097/SLA.0715.

12. BOLSHINSKY V, LIN MJ, SERPELL JW, LEUNG M, WOLFE R, McLEAN C, KELLY J.

Melanoma remaining in wide local excision specimens after complete excisional biopsy. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2016 Jan;74(1):102-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2015.08.065. Epub 2015 Oct 23

13. SERPELL JW, SIDHU S, VALLANCE N, PANIZZA B, RANDOLPH G.

Consensus statements in surgery: intra-operative neural monitoring for thyroid surgery. ANZ J SURG Apr;85 (2015) 294-296

14. SERPELL JW, LEE JC, CHIU WK, EDWARDS G.

Stressing the recurrent laryngeal nerve during thyroidectomy. ANZ J Surg. 2015 Mar 19. doi: 10.1111/ans.13054

15. GUNDARA J, ZHOU JT, GILL A, LEE J, DELBRIDGE L, ROBINSON B, MCLEAN C, SERPELL JW, SIDHU S. Non coding RNA blockade of autophagy is therapeutic in medullary thyroid cancer. Cancer Medicine. 2015 Feb;4(2):174-82 DOI:10:1002/CAM4.355

16. MARSHALL S, BODIN E, SERPELL JW.

The effect of routine reversal using neostigmine of neuromuscular blockade on neuromuscular monitoring and the recurrent laryngeal nerve during thyroid surgery: a double blinded randomized controlled trial. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. 2015. 43(4) 485-489