Rate My Professor Mehrdad Nikfarjam

Professor Mehrdad Nikfarjam is a Professor in the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, affiliated with Austin Hospital. He serves as a Liver, Pancreas and Biliary Surgeon, Senior Lecturer in the Cancer Biology Research Group, Head of the Pancreatic Cancer Biology Research Group, and Director of Pancreatic Surgery. Nikfarjam completed his MBBS (Hons) at Monash University in 1997, PhD in Hepatobiliary Sciences at Monash University and the University of Melbourne from 2002 to 2005, MD at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, and became FRACS in 2006. His training encompassed roles as Advanced Surgical Trainee at Alfred and Austin Hospitals from 2001 to 2006, and Senior Advanced Trainee (Chief Resident) on the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic unit at Austin Hospital in 2006-2007. He held clinical fellowships in the USA at Massachusetts General Hospital (2007), Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (2007-2008), and University Hospitals Case Medical Center (2008-2009), focusing on pancreas, liver, foregut, advanced laparoscopy, and endoscopy. Career appointments at the University of Melbourne include Fellow/Lecturer (2006), Lecturer/Consultant (2009-2012), Senior Lecturer/Consultant (2012-2016), Associate Professor/Consultant (2017-2021), and Professor/Consultant Surgeon since 2022 in the Hepatobiliary/Transplant Unit.