Dr Kai Brown

Meet Dr. Kai Brown, a highly skilled hepatobiliary, pancreatic and general surgeon who practices in two of Sydney's top hospitals, Royal North Shore Hospital and North Shore Private Hospital. Currently, he is working as a Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Sydney, Northern Clinical School. Dr. Brown has a diverse range of expertise that includes the treatment of liver, pancreas and gallbladder tumours and diseases, as well as abdominal wall hernias. He has a special interest in minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery and is also an accredited da Vinci robotic surgeon.

Dr. Brown earned a degree in Medicine and a first-class honours degree in Medical Science from the University of New South Wales. He completed his specialist general surgery training at Royal North Shore Hospital and became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in 2019. During his surgical training, Dr. Brown conducted a PhD at the University of Sydney, Northern Clinical School, investigating colorectal liver metastases. This led to numerous scholarships, awards, and publications, as well as presentations at the national and international level.

After completing his training in general surgery, Dr. Brown embarked on a three-year subspecialty fellowship in Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) and liver transplant surgery with the AANZHPBA. During this time, he trained at major high-volume centres across Australia, including Westmead Hospital in Sydney, The Austin Hospital in Melbourne, and Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.

With a passion for medical education and research, Dr. Brown is actively involved in teaching medical students and junior doctors, as well as conducting both clinical and translational research through his academic appointment at the University of Sydney.

Dr. Brown consults with both public and private patients in his rooms located on the Royal North Shore campus. He is committed to providing every patient with a personalized, evidence-based approach to improve their outcomes. His aim is to treat each patient with the care he would like his own family to receive.