Mr Rod Jacobs

Rod Jacobs is a general surgeon with degrees in Science and Medicine. He attended the University of Melbourne, trained in surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and then worked as a consultant surgeon in Sydney and London after fellowship of the RACS, developing special expertise and further training in gastrointestinal surgery and hernia repair. He has a particular interest in diagnostic and interventional endoscopy, minimally invasive surgery and for a large part of his career, the management of oesophago-gastric cancer and reflux disease.
Additionally, he has extensive experience in the treatment of abdominal wall hernias and his practice now mainly focuses on open and minimally invasive hernia surgery and abdominal wall reconstruction.

Rod is a member of the Epworth Hospital Gastrointestinal and General Surgery Clinical Institute executive; the inaugural President of the ANZ Hernia Society; active on the International Hernia Collaboration; often called upon to lecture and run workshops on hernia repair, recently being on the faculty for the AHS, the AWR-Deep Impact conference and World Congress of Abdominal Wall Hernia Surgery. He is a reviewer for the journal Hernia; and the author of peer-reviewed publications from his time as a scientist and surgeon. His research and clinical interests revolve around management of the open abdomen, preoperative optimisation of hernia patients and minimising wound complications and hernia development after surgery.

Furthermore, he performs abdominal wall reconstruction for multiple recurrent hernias and trains other surgeons in complex incisional hernia repair. Mr Jacobs is a founding member of ANZ Hernia Society and active in the international hernia community.