Dr Alan Meagher

211110_SVCP_LeoBurnett_Sh 14_Alan_Meagher_1178_v2

Dr Alan Meagher is a colorectal surgeon currently practicing at St Vincent’s Clinic, St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney and St Vincent’s Public Hospital Sydney.  His particular areas of speciality include colonoscopy quality standards and anal cancer.

Dr Meagher graduated from the University of New South Wales (M.B. B.S. (Hons)) in 1984, became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (General Surgery) in 1990, completed the Australian Colo-Rectal Training Program in 1991-1992 and was a Mayo Academic Fellow in Colon and Rectal Surgery in 1993 (Mayo Clinic, Rochester USA).  Since joining St Vincent’s as an intern in 1984, Dr Meagher’s has spent most of his working life on the St Vincent’s Darlinghurst campus. 

He has been the Supervisor Surgical Training at St Vincent’s Hospital, Secretary Division of Surgery, Chairman of the St Vincent’s Private Hospital Medical Board, Chairman of the Sydney Colorectal Society and a member of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australasia Foundation and is currently the Chairman of the Diagnostic Endoscopy Unit of St Vincent's Clinic Medical Advisory Committee.  He has authored, co-authored over 90 academic articles.