Upper GI West

Krishna co-founded Upper GI West with fellow Specialist, Mr Alan Thomas in 2008. Their practice has grown exponentially to offer a multi-disciplinary approach – offering their patients an all-encompassing service to provide the best possible outcomes; including multiple specialist surgeons, bariatric physicians and dietitians.

Krishna is an Australian trained Surgeon. He was born and educated in Hobart where he graduated with Honours from the University of Tasmania. He relocated to Victoria to undertake a Fellowship in General Surgery. He subsequently completed a three-year sub-specialty training program of Upper Gastrointestinal, Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Obesity Surgery at Box Hill, Fremantle and St Vincent’s Hospitals.

Krishna returned to Perth in 2007 as a specialist Surgeon and has become a leading Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon in Australia with expertise across both Oesophago-Gastric and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery which are now separate disciplines. He has performed over 500 major resectional procedures for Cancers of the Oesophagus, Stomach, Liver and Pancreas. He has served a full term on the executive board of the Australian and New Zealand Gastric and Oesophageal Surgeons Association (ANZGOSA). He has been the Clinical Lead for the Western Australia Clinical Oncology Group (WACOG) Upper Gastrointestinal Tumour Collaborative. He has been a surgical advisor to the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Structured Pathology Reporting of cancer project.