Professor Justin Yeung is the Head of the Department of Surgery, Western Precinct, University of Melbourne and is a consultant colorectal surgeon at Western Health.
Justin graduated from Nottingham University in the UK and went on to complete his general surgical and colorectal specialist training in Nottingham. He then underwent a pelvic floor fellowship in Sheffield, in the United Kingdom before being awarded an HCA International Foundation Scholarship which allowed him to complete a year’s specialist colorectal cancer fellowship at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
Justin returned to the UK and worked at the University Hospitals of Leicester as a consultant colorectal and pelvic floor surgeon in 2010. He was then awarded the honorary title of Senior Lecturer in 2016 at the University of Leicester.
In 2017, Justin became the Head of the Department of Surgery, University at Melbourne, at Western Health, and since then has developed research interests in Colorectal Surgery in particular in the field of improving cancer outcomes in those from a cultural and linguistic diverse background through multidisciplinary collaboration.
Finally, he is keen to support and promote education and training in the clinical environment, in particular with the development of online educational materials.
