PROF. ALEXANDER HERIOT

Professor Alexander Heriot is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and is the Director of Cancer Surgery at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne and Director of the Lower GI Tumour stream at the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

He has a clinical focus on lower gastrointestinal oncology and has developed the Pelvic Exenteration service and the Peritoneal disease service at Peter Mac. He also has a focus on minimally invasive surgery for colorectal cancer with a particular interest in the development, application, and teaching of robotic colorectal surgery.

Professor Heriot is a Clinical Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He was awarded the John Mitchell Crouch fellowship by RACS for 2016 and a Hunterian Professorship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2022. He is a past member and Chairman of the Australasian Training Board in Colorectal Surgery (ANZTBCRS) and of the Binational Colorectal Cancer Outcome Registry.

He has published over 420 peer reviewed papers, multiple book chapters and 1 book. He is on the editorial advisory board for Disease of the Colon and Rectum, Annals of Surgical Oncology, and Colorectal Cancer. He runs a translational research program focusing on lower gastrointestinal oncology and has raised over $14 million in grants and is currently/has supervised 34 surgeons undertaking higher degrees.