Dr Costa Karihaloo

Education

  • Newcastle High School 1983-86
  • Sydney Boys High School 1986-88
  • Sydney University 1990-96

Qualifications

  • BSc(Med)(Hons 1) 1993
  • MBBS 1996
  • FRACS 2006

Appointments

  • VMO, John Hunter Hospital
  • VMO, Belmont District Hospital
  • VMO, Lake Macquarie Private Hospital
  • VMO, Warners Bay Private Hospital
  • President, Hunter Surgical Society 2010-12
  • Director, Department of General Surgery John Hunter Hospital 2017-

Memberships

  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Surgeons
  • Obesity Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand
  • International Federation of Surgery for Obesity
  • Australian and New Zealand Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery Association
  • Australian and New Zealand Gastrooeasophageal Surgery Association
  • Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
  • Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

Surgical Experience

  • First Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in the Hunter region – June 2008
  • First Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass in the Hunter region – June 2009
  • First Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy in the Hunter region – August 2009
  • Laparoscopic Gastric Banding – 500+ cases
  • Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy – 800+ cases
  • Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass – 100+ cases
  • Laparoscopic Single Anastomosis Gastric Bypass (“mini bypass”)
  • Laparoscopic Gastric Plication
  • Laparoscopic Colectomy – 200+ cases
  • Laparoscopic Fundoplication
  • Laparoscopic Hernia Repair – 1000+ cases
  • Laparoscopic Bile Duct Exploration
  • Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy - 1000+ cases
  • Laparoscopic distal Pancreatectomy, segmental Heptatectomy, Splenectomy, Adrenalectomy
  • Pancreaticoduodenectomy
  • Biliary resection/reconstruction
  • Hepatectomy
  • Extensive experience of all emergent and elective open general surgical procedures and trauma
  • Demonstrator at Bard Floseal Workshop September 2007, Royal Brisbane Hospital
  • Demonstrator at Tyco Laparoscopic Colectomy Workshop August 2007, Gold Coast
  • Bariatric Surgery – Beyond the Basics.  Johnson and Johnson workshop July 2007, Melbourne
  • Advanced Bariatric Surgery – workshop, Hamburg August 2009
  • Intragastric Balloon – workshop, Sydney September 2010
  • Laparoscopic Ventral Rectopexy – workshop, Brisbane August 2011
  • Apollo endoscopic suturing workshop – Sydney November 2016

Publications

  • The Allergens of Alternaria Alternata.  BSc(med) Thesis, Sydney University, 1993.
  • Britton WJ, Tovey ER, Sluyter R, Karihaloo C (1994).  Analysis of IgE reactivity to house dust mite, grass pollen and fungal allergens in MZ and DZ twins by immunoblotting.  Allergy Clin Immunol News (sup) 2:315
  • Wills VL, Gibson K, Karihaloo C, Jorgensen JO (2002). Complications of biliary T-tubes after choledochotomy. ANZ J. Surg. 72(3): 177 -80.  Listed in top 20 most cited articles from ANZJS
  • Karihaloo C, Tovey ER, Mitakakis TZ, Duffy DL,  Britton WJ (2002). Evidence for the genetic control of immunoglobulin E reactivity to the allergens of Alternaria  alternata. Clinical and Experimental Allergy 32(9):1316-22.
  • Agrez M, Karihaloo C, Reeves G, Puvaneswary M, Sturm L, Scurry J (2004).  Rectal cancer masquerading as an amoeboma: case report and review of the literature.  ANZ J Surg. 74(9):812-5.
  • Dewar D, Karihaloo C, Gani J Splenosis, Splenunculi.http://www.surgicalexam.com/case-reports/report1.html 
  • Karihaloo C.  Obesity Surgery: the 21st century evidence.  Medicine Today. 11(8):81-3.
  • Williams J, Karihaloo C.  Comparison of gastric banding and sleeve gastrectomy.  ANZCS ASC 2011.
  • Karihaloo C. Body composition after sleeve gastrectomy. IFSO 2013

 Presentations (2012-)

  • Bariatric surgery and fertility. Newcastle Obstetric and Gynaecology Society. October 2012
  • Body composition after sleeve gastrectomy. IFSO Istanbul, Turkey August 2013
  • Metabolic surgery. Internal Medicine Society of ANZ. Newcastle September 2013
  • Complex ventral hernia repair. Newcastle November 2014