Associate Professor Maurice Brygel is a Melbourne general surgeon who is a pioneer in day surgery hernia repair, having performed over 10,000 hernia operations. He became known as the "hernia king" after establishing the Melbourne Hernia Clinic at Masada and Cabrini hospitals. Maurice also teaches hands-on surgical office skills, which led to him producing and presenting certificate courses in clinical procedures with HealthCert over the last five years.

Maurice teaches at Notre Dame Medical School, Cabrini, the Alfred, and the Royal Australian College of Surgeons. Maurice has published extensively on hernias and authored several multimedia books including “The Video Book of Surgery” and “Exploring Essential Surgery” with the Mcgraw Hill Access Surgery and Medicine.

Dr Peter Chu graduated from Melbourne University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, and a Bachelor of Medical Science in Immunology through the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medicine. Having gained his Fellowship from The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in General Surgery in 2002, he obtained a second fellowship from The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and completed an Endovascular Fellowship through The Epworth Hospital in 2005.

Peter currently has an appointment as Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, and has admitting rights to several private hospitals in Melbourne, including Epworth Private, Cabrini Medical Centre, Knox Private and Melbourne Private Hospitals.

He established and operates The Melbourne Vascular Surgery & Vein Clinic and the Melbourne Vein Centre, offering office-based ambulatory treatment of venous disorders and varicose veins, and consultations for various vascular conditions. He also manages a non-invasive vascular laboratory and imaging service (Melbourne Vascular Imaging) for comprehensive diagnoses and management of vascular disorders.

Peter also consults from The Moorabbin Specialist Centre, Cabrini Medical Centre and 195 Specialist Centre.

Peter’s areas of interest in vascular and endovascular surgery include:

• Management of limb ulceration
• Investigation and treatment of acute and chronic arterial insufficiency with endovascular (angioplasty, stenting) and open bypass surgery
• Venous diseases including spider vein injections, sclerotherapy, foam echosclerotherapy, endovenous laser ablation, endovenous radiofrequency ablation, Venoseal and surgery
• Arterial aneurysms (open and endovascular treatment)
• Carotid artery disease and stroke prevention (including carotid endarterectomy and stenting)
• Renovascular hypertension (including renal artery angioplasty and stenting)
• Management of thoracic outlet syndrome, vasculitides and vasospastic disorders such as Raynaud’s phenomenon
• Central venous access and dialysis access
• Vascular complications in endurance athletes
• Endovascular management of varicocoeles and ovarian vein reflux (pelvic congestion syndrome)
• Treatment of vasculogenic impotence.

Peter is committed to providing a comprehensive, competent, friendly and readily accessible vascular surgical service.

Dr Peter Grossberg is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and has a Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons. He practices as a general surgeon and an Endoscopist in Cabrini Hospital, Malvern with extensive experience in general surgery, endoscopy, and laparoscopic surgery especially laparoscopic hernia surgery. Peter has been an examiner in surgical education at the undergraduate and postgraduate level for the past 35 years. He runs workshops for surgical trainees and GPs, particularly in office procedures.

Peter has been a senior lecturer in surgery at Monash and Melbourne Universities and continues to be involved in teaching and examination at the postgraduate level for anatomy at the University of Melbourne. He has been a Senior Surgeon, Head of Unit and Chairman of the Division of Surgery at Boxx Hill Hospital for the past eight years.

Dr Raj Selvarajan is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Following his training in non-scalpel vasectomy, Raj established No Scalpel Vasectomy Service in north-eastern England in 2007. He subsequently led a non-profit social enterprise organisation, NECHN, and set up non-scalpel vasectomy clinics in Tamworth, Midlands, UK and Leicester City, UK. As an experienced vasectomist, Raj peer-reviewed other non-scalpel vasectomy services in the UK. Specialising and innovating the scalpel free vasectomy technique, he is the lead trainer in Australia and operates Scalpel Free Vasectomy clinics in Brisbane and Mackay.