A/Prof Cherry Koh FRACS
Specialist Colorectal Surgeon – Royal Prince Alfred Hospital & Chris O’Brien Lifehouse
A/Prof Cherry Koh is a Colorectal Surgeon who underwent subspecialty training at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford (UK).
She works jointly at the Department of Colorectal Surgery in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Surgical Division in Chris O’Brien Lifehouse.
Cherry completed her undergraduate training with the University of Melbourne in 2001 graduating with the surgical medal. She subsequently undertook general surgical training at St Vincent’s Hospital and The Alfred in Melbourne as well as Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. In 2010, she was awarded the Notaras Fellowship by the Training Board of Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand which granted her a post-fellowship position at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Oxford for her Colorectal Fellowship. While she was in the United Kingdom, she was also awarded the ACPGBI (Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland) travelling fellowship. As part of her travelling fellowship, she travelled and worked in St Mark’s Hospital, Basingstoke, Leeds General and Infirmary in the UK as well as Geneva in Switzerland.
Cherry has a wide clinical and academic interest. Clinically, she is interested in both minimally as well as maximally invasive surgery. She completed a Masters in Colorectal Surgery in 2008 looking at pelvic floor dysfunction. She is currently undertaking a PhD looking at decision making in patients with locally or recurrent rectal cancer. Cherry is also the Colorectal Research lead for the Department of Colorectal Surgery at the Institute of Academic Surgery at the RPA and is actively involved with supporting research and the supervision of research students. She is also actively involved with the care of patients with colon and rectal cancer and also has a special interest in inflammatory bowel disease.
