St Vincents Private Hospitals

Biography

Michael Hii is an Oesophago Gastric, Bariatric and Metabolic surgeon at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.

Mr Michael attended Melbourne University and completed surgical training in Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia. He is a high-volume clinical surgeon and is passionate about improving the patient experience, system efficiency and individual surgical outcomes.
 
Mr Michael is an active clinical researcher. Areas of research interest include improving pre-operative patient selection and optimisation of patients prior to major surgery and novel measures for improving post-surgical outcomes. He is the chair of the St Vincent’s Hospital Upper GI and HPB research group and a Clinical Senior Lecturer with the University of Melbourne.
 
In addition to his clinical workload and research interests Mr Michael is heavily involved in surgical education. He lectures medical students through the St Vincent’s Hospital Medical School, he is the training hub supervisor for Pre-SET surgical training and also the supervisor of the Upper GI/ Bariatric post fellowship surgical program.