Associate Professor Michael Leonard Talbot

Dr Michael Talbot is a specalist in upper GI Surgery and a Conjoint Associate Professor at the St George & Sutherland Clinical School, located at St George Hospital.

Research Interests:

Reflux, Obesity, Oesophageal Motility, Diabetes, Bariatric surgery, early oesophago-gastric tumours, therapeutic endoscopy, management of surgical complications.

Broad Research Areas: As Above

Qualifications: MB ChB, FRACS, FASGE

Society Memberships & Professional Activities:

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons


American Society of Obesity and Metabolic Surgery


American Society of Gastroenterological Endoscopy


Society for Surgery of The Alimentary Tract


Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons


ANZ Gasto-Oesophageal Surgeons Association (foundation member)

Obesity Society of Australia and New Zealand
(Executive member)

Australasian Neurogastroenterology and Motility Association

Sydney Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery Society (Treasurer)

Thesis topics for current UNSW Medicine Postgraduate research students: Reflux and physiology associated with Bariatric Surgery. Outcomes of bariatric surgery.

ILP/Honours research projects available for 2017: Hiatus hernia repair. Outcomes of bariatric surgery.