NELSON AGOSTINHO

Medical professional with extensive experience in patient care, diagnosis, and treatment. Strong focus on team collaboration, adaptable to changing needs, and results-driven. Skilled in clinical decision-making, patient communication, and emergency response. Known for reliability and achieving optimal patient outcomes.

• Stapling and Suturing Workshop - 2008
• Advanced Life Support Provider - 2009
• Teaching on the Run - 2009
• RACS Laparoscopic Skills Training Study - 2010
• RACS Practical Professionalism for Surgical Trainees - 2011
• RACS Critical Literature Evaluation and Research Course - 2011
• Advanced Trauma Life Support - 2011
• DETECT - 2012
• Teaching On The Run Facilitator Training Program - 2013
• Trauma Team Training Course - 2013
• RACS Australian and New Zealand Surgical Skills Education and Training - 2014
• Teaching On The Run Facilitator Training Program Refresher Course - 2014
• RACS Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient - 2014
• Anatomy of Surgical Exposure Course - 2014
• Laparoscopic Appendicectomy and Cholecystectomy Short Course - 2015

• JMO Representative for Clinical Education and Training Institute, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, 01 / 2009 - 01 / 2010
• Graduate Diploma of Essential Surgical Skills Educator, Health Education and Training Institute, 01 / 2014 - 02 / 2016
• NSW Trainee Representative - Training Committee, General Surgeons Australia, 02 / 2018 - 02 / 2020
• Clinical Educator, Australian National University Graduate Medical Programme, 01 / 2022 - 01 / 2025
• Clinical Educator, University of Sydney Graduate Medical Programme, 01 / 2007 - 02 / 2016

• Sizing Considerations for the Gore Excluder Endoprosthesis in Angulated Aortic Aneurysm Necks.

     2015, ANZSVS, Hawaii, USA

• Quality Of Life Outcomes in Elderly Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: What is The Evidence?, 2014, 19th World Congress on Heart Disease, Boston, USA
• A Systematic Review on the Quality of Life Benefits After Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery in the Elderly.

     2014, 19th World Congress on Heart Disease, Boston, USA

• Remembering remembering part II: The investigation of the forgot-it-all-along effect using pictures. 2002, Northwestern Cognition and Memory
• Does criteria led discharge reduce length of stay? A single unit's preliminary experience. 2018, RACS Australian Capital Territory Annual Scientific Meeting
• Prone en bloc sacrectomy with proctectomy: A surgical approach to the inaccessible and hostile pelvis. 2019, RACS 61st Victorian Annual Surgical Meeting
• Sickle-shaped incision: A novel approach to local excision of large ischiorectal fossa tumours.2019, RACS 61st Victorian Annual Surgical Meeting
• A rural surgeon's experience with intercostal artery perforator flaps in oncoplastic breast reconstruction. 2021, RACS 89th Annual Scientific Congress
• Ethanol sclerotherapy of rectal venous abnormalities in Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome. 2014, J Surg Case Rep.
• Unsuspected path: a central venous catheter insertion. 2017, ANZ J Surg.
• Enterocutaneous fistula secondary to stump appendicitis. 2017, Case Rep Surg.
• Sizing considerations for GORE Excluder in angulated aortic aneurysm necks. 2018, Ann Vasc Surg.
• Beaded appendix. 2019, ANZ J Surg.
• Remember to chew your food. 2019, ANZ J Surg.
• Hidden complication among a common condition: giant colonic diverticulum. 2019, ANZ J Surg.
• What is in the sac? Littré hernia. 2020, ANZ J Surg.
• Could it be an anastomotic leak? A pelvic abscess of unknown aetiology. 2020, ANZ J Surg.
• Utility of digitally supported surgical competency assessments in a work-based setting: a systematic review of the literature. 2020, ANZ J Surg.
• Renal transplant artery autologous saphenous vein graft aneurysms: late presentation and the need for recall and surveillance. 2020, Exp Clin Transplant
• Rare cause of bowel ischaemia: localized vasculitis of the gastrointestinal tract. 2020, ANZ J Surg.
• Lump at the back of my tongue. The lingual thyroid - A case report and narrative review of the literature. 2021, Clinical Case Reports.
• A comparison of tonsillectomy techniques: a 10-year retrospective audit of a large regional hospital in Australia.2022, Aus J Otolaryngol.
• Safety of laparoscopic repair of incisional hernias in liver transplant recipients. 2023, Clinical Transplantation.

• General Surgical Sciences Examination, RACS, 2016
• Clinical Examination, RACS, 2016

Gastroenterological Society of Australia

- Gastroscopy (Adult)

- Colonoscopy (Adult)