Stephen is a specialist general and colorectal surgeon and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS) and a provisional member of the Colorectal Surgical society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ).

Stephen was born and raised in Geelong where he completed his secondary education. After graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Queensland, he trained in General Surgery at both the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. He then completed further training at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne and the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane in colorectal surgery through the internationally acclaimed Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ) training program.

Stephen has completed Robotic Surgery Training in Sunnyvale, California as well as clinical observerships at The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and Oklahoma Surgical Hospital. He has a strong interest in surgical oncology (bowel cancer), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), pelvic floor disorders including ventral rectopexy and sacral nerve neuromodulation (SNM), and minimally invasive surgery including Laparoscopic and Robotic surgery and trans-anal minimally invasive surgery (TAMIS).