Dr John Spillane is a general surgeon with subspecialty training in Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery and Surgical Oncology. He specialises in oesophagus, stomach, skin cancers and melanomas. He has a special interest in minimally invasive management of abdominal cancers (laparoscopic and robotic).
He is a member of Australian and New Zealand Gasto-Oesophageal Surgical Association (ANZGOSA) and committee member of Surgical Oncology Society of Australia, chairperson of the Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials (MASC) surgical Oncologist section and co-lead of the Upper GI/ HPB Research and Educational section of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC). Dr Spillane the Deputy Director of the Department of Cancer Surgery at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
Dr Spillane has a strong interest in surgical education and been a member for many years of the Victorian and Tasmanian General Surgery Training Board and is the Victorian and Tasmanian representative of the general surgery training review committee and member of the RACS Surgical Educators group. He is a senior tutor of the Royal College of Surgeons ASSET and Difficult Conversations with Under Performing Trainees courses and an honorary a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne School of Medicine, Dentistry and Science.
