Rate My Professor Jonathan Gani

Professor Jonathan Gani is an Honorary Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle. He previously held the position of Conjoint Professor of Surgery from 2015 to 2022 and served as Medical Director of Surgery at John Hunter Hospital from 2015 to 2020. Gani completed his medical education at the University of Sheffield, earning an MBChB with Honours. He obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1984 and the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in 1989. In 2001, he was awarded an MD from the University of Newcastle based on his thesis "Towards better Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Hunter Region." His career trajectory includes early surgical training in Sheffield, UK, advanced training at Royal Newcastle Hospital, and post-fellowship training in Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepatopancreatobiliary surgery at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide in 1989. He joined the University of Newcastle as a Lecturer in 1990, funded by grants from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and became a Staff Specialist at John Hunter Hospital in 1991. A semi-sabbatical at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge followed in 2000, after which he returned to Newcastle as a Visiting Medical Officer. Since 2018, his clinical practice has been limited, and he is now semi-retired, dedicating time primarily to teaching and research.

Gani's research focuses on surgery and health management, encompassing clinical research, endoscopy, mentoring, and teaching. Specific interests include outcomes from emergency laparotomy, venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in major abdominal surgery, nasogastric tube use in adhesional small bowel obstruction, and sarcopenia assessment in surgical patients. He has contributed to over 85 publications, accumulating 1,105 citations, with notable works such as "The Routine Use of Nasogastric Tubes for Adhesional Small Bowel Obstruction: What Evidence Is There That It Actually Helps?" (2026), "Prospective randomised controlled trial of the use of nasogastric tubes in patients with adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO): protocol for the NASBO study" (2025), "Efficacy of intermittent compression devices for thromboembolic prophylaxis in major abdominal surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (2022), and "Incidence and Management of Hypertriglyceridemia-Associated Acute Pancreatitis: A Prospective Case Series in a Single Australian Tertiary Centre" (2020). Among his honors is the Hallett Prize awarded in 1982 by the Royal College of Surgeons and Royal College of Physicians.