Dr Michael Crawford

Dr Michael Crawford is a General Surgeon. He has a particular interest in conditions that affect the liver, pancreas and gallbladder. He also specialises in hernia and obesity surgery. Dr Crawford has decades of experience in performing advanced key-hole surgeries, which minimise the risks of wound complications such as infection, bleeding and hernia formation.

Dr Crawford completed a Masters of Medicine at Sydney University, specialising in clinical epidemiology. His focus lies in complex hepatobiliary surgery and he has led the liver transplant surgery team at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for many years. As a founding member of the Australian and New Zealand Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary association, Dr Crawford has fostered the training of surgeons in HPB surgery and has convened meetings for the association.

Dr Crawford attends and presents at international and national conferences on liver, pancreatic and biliary surgical issues and is a founding member of the International Liver Surgical Society. He has substantial experience and expertise in obesity surgery, having performed gastric band surgery and sleeve gastrectomy since 2012.