Chief Surgical Advisor, Victorian Department of Health; Australia

Professor Ben Thomson, Chief Surgical Adviser, is a hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB), general and trauma surgeon. He is the Clinical Director of Surgery at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and recently finished as the Director of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tumour Stream across the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Ben is also an Honorary Clinical Professor at The University of Melbourne and is a Board member of the Australian and New Zealand Hepatic, Pancreatic and Biliary Association.