Rate My Professor Jerome Laurence

Associate Professor Jerome Laurence is an academic surgeon in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, holding the position of Associate Professor of Academic Surgery in the Central Clinical School and serving as a Level 3 Supervisor. He practices as a transplant and upper gastrointestinal surgeon at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Westmead Hospital, specializing in liver, pancreas, biliary, and complex upper gastrointestinal surgery, including minimally invasive approaches in multidisciplinary teams to improve care for patients with complex surgical needs. Laurence completed his MBChB, internship, and junior surgical training in the United Kingdom. As a Northcote Scholar, he pursued a PhD in transplantation immunology at the University of Sydney. He undertook general surgery training at Royal Prince Alfred and Concord Hospitals, earning Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in 2011, followed by post-fellowship training in hepatopancreatobiliary and upper gastrointestinal surgery at Westmead and Royal Brisbane Hospitals, and a two-year fellowship in hepatopancreatobiliary and transplantation surgery at Toronto General Hospital.

His research interests include surgery, liver transplantation, hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatobiliary surgery, surgical oncology, and laparoscopic surgery, with 130 publications and 2,791 citations on ResearchGate. Key publications encompass book chapters 'Cancer Following Solid Organ Transplant' (2017) and 'Recurrent Pyogenic Cholangitis' (2015), and recent papers such as 'Outcomes following inferior vena cava reconstruction at an advanced surgical unit' (2025), 'Spatial mapping of the HCC landscape identifies unique intratumoral perivascular-immune neighborhoods' (2024), and 'Normothermic Ex Vivo Perfusion Before Transplantation of the Kidney (NEXT-Kidney): A Single-center, Nonrandomized Feasibility Study' (2024). Awards include the Northcote Scholarship (2005) and Young Investigator Award from the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (2008). Laurence supervises higher-degree research students and honours projects, mentors surgeons in training developing academic careers, teaches medical students, and contributes to curriculum design and assessment in surgery, promoting a supportive learning environment.