Prof Leigh Delbridge You are here:HomeOur ServicesOur specialists Qualifications FRACS FACS Specialty Endocrine Surgery General Surgery Areas of Interests Thyroid & parathyroid surgery Address 98 Albany Street Crows Nest NSW 2065 Phone 9438 2900 Fax 9438 2400 Website www.parathyroidandthyroidsurgeon.com.au Roles VMO Mater, Hon Medical Officer, Royal North Shore Hospital VMO, Hornsby Hospital Hon Medical Officer, Children’s Hospital, Westmead Services Thyroid & Parathyroid surgery Publications http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/people/academics/publications/leighd.php Bio Leigh Delbridge is Emeritus Professor of Sydney at the University of Sydney. He is Australia’s most experienced parathyroid and thyroid surgeon and has been head of the University’s Endocrine Surgical Unit for over twenty years. He has performed more than 10,000 parathyroid and thyroid operations and continues to do more than 500 such procedures each year. The first minimally invasive parathyroidectomy in Australia using endoscopic techniques was performed by Professor Delbridge and published by the: British Journal of Surgery. He has been the President of the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons, founding committee member of Australia and New Zealand Endocrine Surgeons, Chairman of the Section of Endocrine Surgery, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Committee member of the Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons and the International Society of Surgery. He is the Past Chairman of the Surgical Research Society of Australia and has published over 300 papers on parathyroid, thyroid and related topics.