David studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, and has been practising in Gastroenterology since 1991, when he returned from postgraduate studies in Adelaide and The Netherlands. He has worked faithfully in the Public sector at The Austin Hospital, where he is head of the oesophageal laboratory and attends the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic.

His interests within gastroenterology are broad, covering reflux, inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndromes.

At Glen Iris, David is available for consultations on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and he performs gastroscopies and colonoscopies on Thursday, Friday and some Saturdays. He also coordinates the hydrogen breath testing and oesophageal manometry and pH monitoring services at Glen Iris.

David also consults at the Austin Private Consulting Suites in Heidelberg.

David's family is independent, and he loves traveling, photography and playing tennis.

Mr. Smith is a Upper Gastro-intestinal specialist general surgeon. He trained in surgery at The Alfred in Melbourne, becoming fully qualified in 1996. Post graduate training was undertaken in the U.K. for 2 further years to obtain expertise in laparoscopic and resectional upper GI surgery.

His particular areas of interest include laparoscopic surgery, anti-reflux surgery, lap-gastric banding, gallstone and hernia surgery.

He works at The Alfred, and is a senior lecturer in the Department of Surgery, Monash Medical School. His main rooms are based at Suite 44, Cabrini Malvern, where he works in the Upper GastroIntestinal Surgery Group. Additionally he works at The Avenue hospital in Windsor, Cabrini in Malvern, and at Glen Iris Private.

Gastroscopy and colonoscopy lists are performed every day at Glen Iris Private, but Mr. Smith's list is on Tuesday morning. Vasectomies can be performed any Tuesday, or on alternate Thursday morning lists for patient convenience. Surgeries performed at Glen Iris Private include vasectomy, laparoscopic and open hernia repair, laparoscopic gastric banding and lesion excision.

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For appointments call the Surgical Consulting Group on 9576 1411. Tracey is his PA.

Dr Howard Tang came to Australia as a 5 year old from Hong Kong and has since been able to maintain his Chinese language skills and improved his English as well. He went to Wesley when it was still a boys only school and graduated with Honours from Monash Medical School in 1987.

He then completed his Gastroenterology training in 1996 from the Alfred Hospital and was fortunate to be granted a Queen Elizabeth Fellowship to England to broaden his Hepatology experience.

One year later he went on a scholarship across the Atlantic, to Charleston South Carolina where he worked with endoscopic legends Peter Cotton and Robert Hawes to hone his skills in ERCP and therapeutic endoscopy. Since returning to Australia, he holds a public appointment at the Alfred Hospital as one of the senior visiting medical staff.

Howard lives in Camberwell and is married with two young children. He relaxes by heading to the Gippsland lakes to catch bream and waiting patiently for his beloved Saints to deliver a Premiership.

Howard has a broad Gastroenterology interest including managment of viral hepatitis, functional bowel disease, inflammatory bowel disease , ERCP and therapeutic endoscopy.

He has admission and endoscopy rights to the Alfred and Cabrini Hospital.

He consults at Glen Iris Private 3 times a week and has an open access endoscopy list on Monday morning and every second Saturday morning at Glen Iris private.

Urgent patients can always be seen quickly and Howard would be pleased to discuss the clnical cases with referring medical practitioner.

For appointments phone 9882 0444.

Mr. Wale is Head of Colo-rectal Surgery at The Alfred. He has extensive experience in General Surgery and colonoscopy. He now focuses his practice on only colorectal surgery, which is undertaken at Cabrini and The Alfred. He performs endoscopy at Glen Iris Private on some Saturday mornings.

His main passion outside surgery is open water sailing with his lovely wife and crew. Robyn is his PA. Appointments for consultations are made through the Surgical Consulting Group at Suite 44 Cabrini, Malvern, on 9576 1411.

Appointments for colonoscopy and gastroscopy at Glen Iris can be made directly through our reception, on 9808 7111.

Wendy Brown graduated with first class honours from Medicine in 1992 (Monash University). She went on to complete specialist training as a General Surgeon through the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. She attained her fellowship from the Royal Australasian College in 2002 and completed a further year of post-fellowship training in advanced laparoscopic and Upper GI surgery at the Princess Alexandria Hospital, Brisbane.

During her Advanced Surgical training she undertook a PhD from 1997-1999, and the degree was awarded in 2001. Her thesis explored the Chemoprevention of Colorectal Cancer in a rodent model. She focused in particular at the effect of NSAIDs and more selective COX inhibitors on tumour development as well as the drugs' gastrotoxicity.

Since completing her surgical training she has returned to the Alfred Hospital with a clinical appointment as a Visiting Medical Officer in Upper GI and General Surgery.

She was promoted to Associate Professor by Monash University in 2008, and is now also the Director of the Centre for Obesity Research and Education (CORE).

She is an examiner and assessor of the Australian Medical Council, serving on the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) court of examiners and the Board in Physiology. She is on the board of the Australian and New Zealand Gastroesophageal Society and is President-Elect of the Obesity Surgery Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Along with an active clinical practice in Upper GI and Bariatric Surgery, A/Prof Brown has been establishing a research practice focusing primarily on the oesophago-gastric junction and obesity.

Wendy consults at Glen Iris on Wednesdays. For appointments, please phone Surgical Consulting Group at Suite 44 Cabrini Malvern, on 9576 1411. Chris is her PA.