Dr James Toh FRACS
- Specialist Colorectal Surgeon – Westmead Hospital & Westmead Private Hospital
Dr James Toh is a General Surgeon with subspeciality training in colorectal surgical conditions and is appointed at Westmead Hospital and Westmead Private Hospital. He specialises in minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery and has expertise and experience in treating a wide range of colorectal and general surgical conditions. He is a member of RACS, CSSANZ, General Surgeons Australia (GSA) and is a friend of the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA). He is accredited by the Gastrointestinal Enterological Society of Australia (GESA) for gastroscopy and colonoscopy.
James became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) in 2013 and then completed three additional years of subspecialty training in Colorectal Surgery (at Liverpool Hospital, Bankstown/Lidcombe Hospital and Concord Repatriation General Hospital) before going overseas as the International Visiting Surgeon in Robotic Surgery at Korea Anam Hospital.
He has won numerous awards and prizes for surgery and research including the Mark Killingback Colorectal Research Prize, being a finalist in the NSW Australian Medical Association (AMA) Supervisor of the Year Awards, Citizen of the Year (Liverpool) at the National Australia Day Council Awards, Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ) Research Award, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Associate Dean Teaching Award, Tutor of the Year at the South Western Clinical School, UNSW.
James specialises in minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic surgery and has expertise in treating colorectal and general surgical conditions including colon cancer, rectal cancer, anal cancer, Lynch Syndrome, Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, inflammatory bowel disease including Crohn’s Disease and ulcerative colitis, diverticular disease, inguinal hernia, femoral hernia, umbilical hernia, complex / incisional abdominal hernia, gallbladder disease, haemorrhoids and anal fistulae.
