He is a double-certified General Surgeon specialising in Endocrine and General surgery.
Dr Cino Bendinelli is deputy Director of Trauma at John Hunter Hospital since 2009 and a Conjoint Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Newcastle since 2018.
He operates at both Newcastle Private Hospital and John Hunter Hospital and performs more than 200 minimally invasive and traditional thyroid and parathyroid procedures per year. Of these many are complex cases referred by other surgeons. He has vast experience in laparoscopic (key-hole) management of gallbladder complaints, inguinal and incisional hernias, and adrenal surgical pathology.
Current research projects focus on surgical outcomes, trauma management and thyroid cancer surgery, as well as parathyroid disease:
· Multicentre international RCT: Closed Or Open after Laparotomy for source control laparotomy in severe complicated intra-abdominal sepsis (COOL). National Lead Investigator.
· Multicentre RCT : Operative fixation of displaced, painful rib fractures – outcomes & quality of life.
· RCT: Scalpel vs electrocautery skin incisions in thyroid surgery to compare cosmesis and wound healing. Principal Investigator.
· Blood brain barrier permeability disturbance after traumatic brain injury.
· Randomised controlled trial: High-dose preoperative cholecalciferol to prevent long term post-thyroidectomy hypoparathyroidism. Principal Investigator.
· Quality of life after thyroid surgery for benign and malignant disease
· Mitochondria activity and mass in parathyroid disease.
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