St Vincents Private Hospitals

Biography

Dr Nicholas Williams is a general surgeon specialising in upper gastrointestinal surgery, metabolic/bariatric surgery and endocrine (thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal) surgery.

Dr Williams completed his medical degree at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2001 and, in 2009, became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in general surgery.

He then undertook a fellowship in hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgery at Royal North Shore Hospital, before pursuing a further fellowship in endocrine and advanced laparoscopic upper GI surgery at Mexico’s Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Science and Nutrition.

Returning to Australia in 2012, Dr Williams founded regional Australia’s largest bariatric practice in the Riverina and has since established the first regional public metabolic/obesity clinic, currently the largest public bariatric surgery unit in NSW. He is the current president of the Australia and New Zealand Metabolic Obesity Surgery Society (ANZMOSS).

Dr Williams is actively involved in medical education and is an associate lecturer at UNSW, as well an adjunct clinical associate professor at the University of Notre Dame.

In addition to the Mater Hospital, Dr Williams also operates at St Vincent's Private Community Hospital Griffith, Chris O'Brien Lifehouse in Sydney, Calvary Riverina Hospital, Riverina Day Surgery and Wagga Wagga Base Hospital. 

At the Mater Hospital, Dr Williams offers the following services: 

• Gastroscopy and colonoscopy, including bowel screen/positive FOBT, assessment of reflux, work-up for reflux surgery.
• Reflux/hiatal surgery
• Laparoscopic hernia surgery
• Gallbladder
• Skin oncology, including flaps, grafts and cosmetically sensitive areas.

Dr Williams consults directly out of the Mater Hospital.