About Dr Hugh Dixson

Dr Hugh Dixson performs Endoscopic Ultrasounds at Waratah Private Hospital, Hurstville. Dr Dixson is a Senior Staff Specialist, Gastroenterology, Nuclear Medicine & Ultrasound at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer, UNSW

EDUCATION

• 2013    Fellow Australasian Association of Nuclear Medicine Specialists
• 1995    Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound (ASUM)
• 1994    Fellow Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• 1985    Bachelor of Medicine Surgery (MB BS) University of Sydney
  • First class honours
  • Distinctions in medicine, surgery, and pædiatrics
  • Prizes for clinical medicine and general proficiency
• 1983    Bachelor of Science (BSc) University of Sydney, Australia
  • Prizes for mathematics and physics

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

• 1996 – present: Senior Staff Specialist in Gastroenterology, Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound at Bankstown - Lidcombe Hospital, Sydney
• 1996 - present: Clinical Senior Lecturer in Medicine, University of NSW
• 2013 – present: Diagnostic Imaging Advisory Committee, Dept. of Health
• 1998 – 2008: Visiting Medical Officer - Illawarra Regional Hospital, Wollongong
• 1994 – 1995: Registrar in Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound, Westmead Hospital, Sydney
• 1992 – 1993: Gastroenterology Registrar, Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals, Sydney

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

• Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• Australasian Association of Nuclear Medicine Specialists
• Gastroenterological Society of Australia
• Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine

OTHER EXPERIENCE

•  2008 – 2010: President, Australasian Association of Nuclear Medicine Specialists
•  2013 – present: Diagnostic Imaging Advisory Committee, Dept. of Health
•  2010 – present: Radiation Advisory Council, NSW EPA
•  2006 – 2007: Medical Services Advisory Committee Advisory Panel for EUS
•  2000 – 2005: Ultrasound Group, Department of Health & Aged Care