Mr Travis Ackermann is a specialist hepatobiliary, pancreatic and general surgeon with expertise in advanced minimally invasive (laparoscopic/keyhole) and open techniques.

In 2017 he was awarded his FRACS after completing his General Surgery training at Monash Health. Following this he completed a further three years of postgraduate fellowship training, at the Canberra Hospital, Monash Medical Centre and Flinders Medical Centre in the Australian and New Zealand Hepatic, Pancreatic and Biliary Association (ANZHPBA) training program.

He offers the following expertise: 

• Upper Gastrointestinal/HPB 
• Laparoscopic and open liver surgery
• Laparoscopic and open pancreatic surgery
• Laparoscopic and open splenectomy 
• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Laparoscopic and open common bile duct surgery
• Laparoscopic hiatus hernia repair
• Liver, pancreatic and biliary tumours
• Gallstones

General surgery

• Laparoscopic and open inguinal and femoral hernia repairs
• Laparoscopic and open ventral, umbilical and incisional hernia repairs
• Recurrent hernias
• Small bowel surgery
• Appendicectomy
• Diagnostic laparoscopy
• Excision of benign soft tissue tumours, lipomas
• Gastroscopy