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​Due to special interests in breast, laparoscopic and general surgery A/Prof Vasica is committed to maintaining a broad range of surgical skills and holds a number of private and public surgical appointments as well as a number of on call emergency surgical rosters.

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Procedures that A/Prof Vasica performs include (but are not limited to) breast surgery, varicose veins, haemorrhoidectomy, ingrown toenails, vasectomies, pilonidal sinus surgery, lipoma’s and skin lesions (benign and malignant) and colonoscopies. A/Prof Vasica also performs laparoscopic procedures such as appendectomies, hernia repairs (open and laparoscopic) and cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal). In addition to this, she has a particular interest in major abdominal surgery including bowel resections and laparotomies.

 

A/Prof Vasica is the current Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons NSW/ACT Surgical Training Committee; the committee that reviews all of the Surgical Trainees in NSW and ACT as well as the manner in which General Surgical training is delivered and assessed in order to produce the highest standard surgical trainees and surgeons for the future.  

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A/Prof Vasica is also the Clinical Supervisor of training for the Northern Beaches Hospital and holds the post of lecturer and clinical tutor at the Northern Clinical Network and SAN Clinical School of Medicine teaching both clinical examination and communication skills.

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A/Prof Vascia is local to the Northern Beaches area and committed to remaining within the Northern Sydney area for the duration of her career. A/Prof Vasica is able to provide a service to all residents of the Northern Beaches through participation in the emergency on-call roster and elective lists at the Northern Beaches Hospital. In addition to rooms in Mona Vale’s Bungan Street Tower she also consults from sessional rooms at the Sydney Adventist Hospital in Wahroonga. Private patients may elect to have surgery via weekly elective lists at the Sydney Adventist Hospital, Pittwater Day Surgery or Northern Beaches Hospital.