John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship awarded to Prof Wendy Brown

Professor Wendy Brown has a busy surgical
schedule in addition to her research, teaching
and mentoring roles

Congratulations to Professor Wendy Brown, Chair of the Monash University Department of Surgery at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, who has just been awarded the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship!  Her work on the treatment of obesity in the public health system has been recognized by RACS in this award, valued at $150,000.

Professor Brown, a General Surgeon specialising in oesophago-gastric cancer, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and bariatric surgery, is the first woman to have been awarded the honour in a long list of awardees dating back to 1977 when the Fellowship was first established.

Prof Russell Gruen awarded the 2013 John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship byRACS

Head of the National Trauma Research Institute, Professor Russell Gruen, was awarded the 2013 John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) 82nd Annual Scientific Congress in May 2013. The Fellowship, worth $150,000, is the premier research award of the RACS, and is awarded annually.