Mr Peter Hewett
MBBS FRACS
Consultant Surgeon
Contact details
Discipline of Surgery
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Ph: +61 8 8222 6248
Fax: +61 8 8222 6028
Email: peter.hewett@health.sa.gov.au
Biography
Head of Colorectal Surgery at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, South Australia and Clinical Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Surgery, The University of Adelaide.
Interest in laparoscopic surgery since 1990 and involved in developing the technique of laparoscopic harvesting of kidneys from living related donors at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital for which the team received a SA Great Award for Health in 1998. Recipient of the Northern California Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons Award in 1996 for involvment in the project titled ‘Intraperitoneal Cell Movement during Abdominal CO2 Insufflation and Laparoscopy – an In-vivo Model.
Chairman of the Research Committee of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (2000-2006) and elected to the chair of the the assessment committee of the Research Foundation of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand from 2005-2007. Currently an active member of the committee. Also currently Chairman of the Calvary Hospital Clinial Review Committee (2000-) and a member of the Ashford Hospital Clinical Review Committee(2000-).
Associate Editor of the publication Diseases of the Colon and Rectum (2002-2008) and the Chinese Journal of Coloproctology(2004-). Referee of the publications for Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, British Journal of Surgery and Surgical Endoscopy. Twenty papers published in high impact, peer reviewed journals since 2004.
Instrumental in the development of a University of Adelaide Masters Degree Course in Minimally Invasive Surgery based at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, which is of significant importance.
Director of Surgery Australia, which runs established courses in laparoscopic surgery for Australian surgeons, and are held eight times per year at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Clinical interests
• Performance and development of laparoscopic colorectal surgery
• Surgical treatment of diseases of the colon and rectum
• Surgical treatment of faecal incontinence
• Treatment of pseudomyxoma peritonei by cytoreduction and application of heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy
Research interests
• Performance and development of laparoscopic colorectal surgery
• Surgical treatment of diseases of the colon and rectum
Recent publications
• Ciccocioppo A, Stephens JH, Hewett PJ, Rieger NA. Complete pathologic response after preoperative rectal cancer chemoradiotherapy. ANZ J Surg 2009; 79(6): 481-4.
• Allardyce RA, Bagshaw PF, Frampton CM, Frizelle FA, Hewett PJ, Rieger NA, Smith S, Solomon MJ, Stevenson AR. Australian and New Zealand study comparing laparoscopic and open surgeries for colon cancer in adults: organization and conduct. ANZ J Surg 2008; 78(10): 840-7.
• Allardyce RA, Bagshaw PF, Frampton CM, Frizelle FA, Hewett PJ, Rieger NA, Smith S, Solomon MJ, Stevenson AR. The Australasian laparoscopic colon cancer study. ANZ J Surg 2008; 78(10): 832-3.
• Hewett PJ, Allardyce RA, Bagshaw PF, Frampton CM, Frizelle FA, Rieger NA, Smith JS, Solomon MJ, Stephens JH, Stevenson AR. Short-term outcomes of the Australasian randomized clinical study comparing laparoscopic and conventional open surgical treatments for colon cancer: the ALCCaS trial. Ann Surg 2008; 248(5): 728-38.
• Sturm LP, Windsor JA, Cosman PH, Cregan P, Hewett PJ, Maddern GJ. A systematic review of skills transfer after surgical simulation training. Ann Surg 2008; 248(2): 166-79.
• Roberts-Thomson IC, Tucker GR, Hewett PJ, Cheung P, Sebben RA, Khoo EE, Marker JD, Clapton WK. Single-center study comparing computed tomography colonography with conventional colonoscopy. World J Gastroenterol 2008; 14(3): 469-73.
• Tan PY, Stephens JH, Rieger NA, Hewett PJ. Laparoscopically assisted colectomy: a study of risk factors and predictors of open conversion. Surg Endosc 2008; 22(7): 1708-14.
Conferences
• Annual Paediatric Surgical Update, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide, October 2009. Masters Degree in Minimally Invasive Surgery.
• International Surgical Week, Adelaide, September 2009. How to mobilize the splenic flexure laparoscopically.
• Annual Meeting of the Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Taiwan, December 2008. Perspective on surgical and treatment strategies in colorectal cancer.
• CSSANZ Spring Meeting, Sydney, November 2008. Long term survival after laparoscopic assisted resection for colon cancer.
• Tripartite Colorectal Surgery Meeting, Boston, June 2008. How to safely implement a fast track program in your hospital.
• Tripartite Colorectal Surgery Meeting, Boston, June 2008. How to transect the rectum in a laparoscopic low anterior resection (video presentation).
• Medical and Surgical Models of Care Planning, Adelaide, March 2008. Flexibility in the use of operating theatres.
Students supervised
• Ms Michelle Thomas - Master of Surgery
• Mr Michael Norwood - MMIS
• Mr Andrew Strickland - MMIS
• Ms Fariba Willison - MMIS
• Mr Santosh Olakkengil - MMIS
Grants
• Cancer Council SA Project Grant. J Hardingham, T Chataway, P Hewett. “Development of new biomarkers for micro-metastatic disease detection in early stage colorectal cancer”. 2008 $82,750
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