Research Interests

• Minimally invasive and robotic surgery

• Surgical oncology

• Biomedical informatics

• Surgery of thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal gland

Christine O’Neill is a high-volume specialist thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgeon based in Newcastle, NSW Australia. She is current President of ANZ Endocrine Surgeons. Christine has a Masters of Endocrine Surgery in thyroid cancer genetics and will be shortly submitting her PhD thesis examining clinical and patient outcomes in thyroid cancer patients. She is head of general surgery at John Hunter Hospital Newcastle, the chair of the Hunter New England Endocrine Surgery Multidisciplinary team and a founding member of the Hunter Medical Research Institute Surgical and Perioperative Research Program. Christine has more than 50 publications in endocrine surgery with research interests spanning endocrine surgery diagnostics, patient outcomes, systems improvement and implementation science, education and continuing professional development. 

Qualifications

MBBS(Hons), MS FRACS

• Accredited at the Following Hospitals
  Belmont Hospital
  John Hunter Hospital
  Lake Macquarie Hospital
  Newcastle Private Hospital

• Special Interests
  Thyroid, Parathyroid and Adrenal Surgery

Practice Locations

• Lake Macquarie Specialist Medical Centre
  Top Floor, 8 Sydney St
  Gateshead
  Newcastle, New South Wales 2290
  Australia

• Dr Walsh is a senior consultant anaesthetist in the Hunter Region. She completed her medical undergraduate studies at Newcastle University and after working in Sydney and Darwin in the Northern Territory settled with her family in Newcastle to train as an Anaesthetist.

• She enjoys all areas of anaesthesia but her special interests include Endocrine, Colo-rectal, ENT and Gynaecology/women’s health. She is passionate about providing high quality, personalised and safe anaesthetic services to the patients she looks after.

• As well as working in various private hospitals in the area Dr Walsh also holds an appointment at John Hunter Hospital as a senior staff specialist. There she cares for patients across a broad range of surgical specialities in the elective and emergency setting. Dr Walsh is affiliated with the Australian New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. She holds college appointments on the trainee education committee as a deputy Education Officer for NSW, responsible for trainee affairs, education and welfare.

• In her down time Dr Walsh enjoys physical activities outdoors, sport and spending time with her husband and four kids.

MBBS MD MRCSEd FMAAS

Senior Lecturer (Grade II), Board Certified Consultant General and Endocrine Surgeon

Department of Surgery

Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

Honorary Consultant General and Endocrine Surgeon

Professorial Surgical Unit

Teaching Hospital Anuradhapura

November 2020 – Present

Fellow

Ear, Nose & Throat department

Lister Hospital, London, United Kingdom

November 2019 - November 2020

Specialist registrar of Endocrine surgery

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

United Kingdom

June 2010 - Present

Lecturer in Surgery

Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

October 2009- September 2011

Epidemiology and outcome of hand trauma in Sri Lanka

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

Since 2009

Visiting lecturer for the department anatomy

Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

2005-2006

Demonstrator

Department of Anatomy

Faculty of Medicine

University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka