Rate My Professor Alan Saunder

Alan Saunder serves as Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery, Monash Health, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University. Qualified with MBBS and FRACS, he holds the position of Unit Head and Unit Supervisor for the Vascular and Transplantation Surgery unit at Monash Health. His academic and clinical career focuses on surgical practice and research within vascular and transplant domains at Monash Medical Centre and associated facilities. Saunder contributes to postgraduate surgical training through the department's teaching, skills training, and audit activities.

Saunder's research expertise aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, spanning vascular surgery, transplantation surgery, and related interventions. Key areas include subjective and objective improvements post-varicose vein surgery, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of endovascular treatments for peripheral vascular disease, combined kidney-pancreas transplants for type 1 diabetics with end-stage renal failure, outcomes of percutaneous procedures for occlusive vascular disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm repairs via stent grafting, venous disability scoring and surgical outcomes, comparisons of CT angiogram with digital subtraction angiography in failing arteriovenous fistulas for haemodialysis, and management strategies for complications such as ischaemic steal in vascular access. He has produced 15 research outputs, including 11 journal articles, 2 comments/debates, 1 book, and 1 letter, with documented activity from 1998 to 2023. Notable publications are 'Optimal flow volume measurements in forearm versus arm arteriovenous fistulas' (Nephrology, 2023), 'Broad-Ranging Nutritional Deficiencies Predict Amputation in Diabetic Foot Ulcers' (International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds, 2020), 'Victoria's perioperative response to the COVID-19 pandemic' (ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2020), 'Early pancreas allograft thrombosis' (Clinical Transplantation, 2013), 'Allocating the unexpected kidney' (Nephrology, 2012), and contributions to Hunt & Marshall's Clinical Problems in Surgery and the fourth edition of Textbook of Surgery (2020).