PERSONAL

Blair Kingsley Bowden

General and Obesity Surgeon

Doctors B O’loughlin, A Askew, and M Windsor

The following twenty-four months of this advanced surgical training were spent at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. This added breadth to my surgical exposure to sub specialised surgical units, and their patients with increasing complex clinical problems. I also developed competence in advanced laparoscopic surgery.

Toward the end of my period of general surgical training, I became increasingly interested in upper gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery and therefore elected to pursue this interest during my post fellowship training.

During my period of HPB specialist training, I worked with 13 HPB surgeons from 4 countries in 4 specialist units. This has given me a comprehensive and varied exposure to all of the procedures necessary to function independently as a consultant upper GI/HPB surgeon, with the exception of liver transplantation. I have also participated actively in the research activities of each of these units and continue to pursue my own research interests, as outlined below.

Clinical Lecturer, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Responsibilities:
Active involvement in tutoring the problem based learning modules in surgical pathology, and examination skills to postgraduate medical students

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Australia.
Instructor for Basic Surgical Skills course.
Responsibilities
Demonstrate basic surgical techniques, as example; suturing, dissection, bowel anastomoses and basic laparoscopic skills to surgical basic trainees.

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Australia.
Instructor for Advanced Trauma Life Support Course (EMST),
Responsibilities
Present lectures, demonstrations, and asses candidates based on the ATLS guidelines.

General Surgeons of Australia
Responsibilities
Organising Committee; Annual Scientific Program
Annual Meeting 2000 Sydney

Board of General Surgeons of Australia. Advanced Trainee State Representative
1999-2002

• Member of the Australian Medical Association
• Member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Surgeons
• Obesity Surgery Society of Australia and New Zealand OSSANZ
  

Bowden BK, and Ren CJ
Impact of bariatric surgery of glycaemic control in type II diabetes.
A retrospective analysis of 110 diabetic patients post bariatric surgery.
Resolution of diabetes in 67% of patients following laparoscopic banding, and 97% following gastric bypass at 2 years post op.
Submitted Obesity Surgery 2004

Bowden BK, Wemyss-Holden S, and Nathanson LK,
Avoid the tangle. A useful tool to hold the sutures.
During biliary anastomosis the multiple interrupted sutures can easily become entangled. This can be limited with the use of a scrubbing brush to hold the sutures. It is a, readily available, non-traumatic, instrument and been found to be invaluable aid during difficult anastomosis.
Submitted RCS Annals 2004

Bowden BK, and Rhodes M
Inguinal hernia repair. Another perspective on the plug
A case report demonstrating that peritoneal adhesions do form from plug hernia repair
Submitted ANZ Journal of Surgery 2004

Bowden BK, and Ren CJ
Safe establishment of pneumoperitoneum in the morbidly obese.
Retrospective analysis of establishment of pneumoperitoneum in 826 morbidly obese patients using the optical trocar.
Submitted SAGES 2005

Bowden BK, Klauss D, and Rhodes M
Surgeon performed ultrasound. Is it accurate?
Often patients with presenting with acute biliary pathology experience significant delays waiting for abdominal ultrasounds. This prospective trial is investigating the accuracy of
Surgeon performed ultrasound when compered to ultrasound performed and interpreted by a radiologist.
Status patient enrolment closing Jan 2005

Bowden BK, and Ren CJ
Impact of weight loss on resolution of diabetes, sleep apnoea, and hypertension following bariatric surgery.
Cambridge Deanery Surgical Research Meeting,
Norwich, United Kingdom 2004

Bowden BK, Dolan K, Finch R, and Fielding GA
Crural repair in Laparoscopic Gastric Banding. When should it be performed?
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Annual Scientific Conference,
Brisbane, Australia 2003

Bowden BK, and Maguire EJ
Vibrio, not just Cholera.
General Surgeons of Australia. Annual Scientific Conference,
Sheraton Mirage, Gold Coast, Australia 1999