Mr Christopher O’Sullivan

AUGIS Regional Representative: Ireland

About Chris
Born in Kiel, Germany in 1965, Chris, grew up in Cork and graduated from The Medical School, University College Cork, in 1990. Following his basic surgical training in the Cork University Hospital he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1994. He was then appointed Research Fellow to Dr John A Mannick, Moseley Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. This led to an M.D. thesis, awarded from the National University of Ireland in 1998.

Much of his higher surgical training was in the West of Scotland, where he worked under and was greatly influenced by Professor Clem Imrie, at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He transferred to the East of Scotland for further training in the Scottish Liver, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Unit, at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
In 2001, he was appointed Honorary Clinical Associate to Professor Sheung-Tat Fan, at the Hepato-Biliary Pancreatic/Transplant Unit, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong Medical Centre.

He returned to Edinburgh in 2002, to become Clinical Fellow to Professor O. James Garden until he was appointed Consultant Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Liver/Pancreas Transplant Surgeon at the Freeman Hospital Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, in June 2003.

In September 2006, he accepted the Upper GI/HBP Consultant position in the Mercy University Hospital Cork. Together with Professor Gerry O’Sullivan, they have established an Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Centre for the Munster region of Ireland.

His main areas of interest are in the management of pancreatic malignancy, resectional surgery for colorectal liver metastases, and the treatment of neuroendocrine and gastrointestinal stromal tumours.