Associate Professor Sandra Krishnan

MBBS MS GENERAL SURGERY FRACS

Senior Consultant Oncoplastic Breast and General Surgeon

Clinical Associate Professor, Australian National University, Canberra
Councillor, Breast Surgery International
Senior Fellow, Higher Education
Chair, Student Advisory Group, ANU Medical School
VMO Designated Consultant Surgeon, Breastscreen ACT
Director, Angsana Surgery
Ex President Provincial Surgeons Association, Australia
Co-convenor of the ACT Annual Scientific Meeting, Role of the Surgeon into the Future The National Museum of Australia Friday 12 August 2022
Senior Instructor EMST (Early Management of Severe Trauma) - Royal Aust College of Surgeons (RACS)
Advisory Board Member, Sydney Investors, Professionals and Business Networking Group Incorporated (SIPBN Inc)
Writer- Op ed for Oncology and Medical Republic
Mentor - Australasian Student Surgical Association (ASSA)
Faculty - Healthcert Education Module preparation and presentation
Founder - Note to Myself, What I wish I knew in my 20s

Clinical Focus

Areas of expertise include

Wide range of general surgery and laparoscopic procedures, including for diseases of the

2008-2009 - Fellow in Breast Surgery, Breast Cancer Institute, Westmead Hospital and Breast and Endocrine Unit, Concord Hospital.
2009 - Fellowship Royal Australasian College of Surgeons FRACS
2003 - Masters of Surgery Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia.
1994 - Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery MBBS (Hons) 1st Class, Mangalore University, India

Clinical Associate Professor, ANU Medical School, Canberra
Accredited and unaccredited registrars in surgery, residents and interns at SERH, involved in medical student teaching at both the SAN and SERH.
Medical Students at Bega and the SAN, Sydney - rounds, history and clinical examination, communication skills, PBL and CRS
Healthcert Education - preparation of modules and presentation for GP education https://www.healthcert.com/
Senior EMST Instructor RACS
Co-convenor of the ACT Annual Scientific Meeting, Role of the Surgeon into the Future The National Museum of Australia Friday 12 August 2022
Co-convenor 56th Annual Provincial Surgeons of Australia 2020 Annual Scientific Conference (Now 2021 August) https://psa.generalsurgeons.com.au/
CHASM First Line Assessor

Involved in Breast Cancer multi-disciplinary meetings at the Sydney Adventist Hospital in Sydney and Canberra Hospital in Canberra
Advanced Melanoma and Skin Cancer multidisciplinary meeting at the Sydney Adventist Hospital in Sydney and Canberra Hospital in Canberra
Ongoing breast oncology audit for BreastSurgANZ
Images for surgeons Appendiceal Torsion: a Rare Case of Acute Appendicitis https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ans.17298
A rare case of lobular breast cancer metastasising to large bowel https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ccr3.4081
Barium peritonitis--following barium enema of the proximal colon through a colostomy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15190666/
Peer reviewer- Rural and Remote Health https://www.rrh.org.au