Dr Alex Papachristos is a specialist Endocrine and General Surgeon. After completing surgical training in 2019, he undertook sub-specialty training in endocrine surgery at the prestigious University of Sydney Endocrine Surgery Unit. He has expertise in all aspects of thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgery, and has a special interest in advanced thyroid cancer management and minimally invasive adrenal surgery, offering both laparoscopic and posterior retroperitoneoscopic approaches.

Alex is appointed at Royal North Shore Hospital and North Shore Private Hospital, and regularly visits Dubbo, operating at both Dubbo Base and Dubbo Private Hospitals. He is passionate about maintaining this regional component to his practice and continues to regularly participate in the acute surgery on-call roster for Dubbo Base Hospital.

Outside the operating theatre, Alex is actively involved in translational research and is currently exploring novel therapeutic options in advanced thyroid cancer. He is a Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Sydney and manages the surgical curriculum for the fourth-year medical students at the Northern Clinical School.

Alex is keen to see both public and private patients with endocrine surgery issues, including:

• Thyroid nodule evaluation
• Thyroid cancer
• Multinodular goitre
• Toxic nodules
• Graves’ disease
• Parathyroid adenoma
• Hyperparathyroidism
• Adrenal incidentaloma and adenoma
• Phaeochromocytoma
• Adrenal cancer
• Thyroglossal duct cyst
• Parotid surgery
• Submandibular gland excision
• Neck lump evaluation