CR Sydney would like to wish our patients, doctors and local community a happy and safe holiday period.
We will be closed from Friday the 20th December, and we will reopen on Monday 13th January.

Poster Presentations
A competing risk analysis on the effect of global region of birth on colorectal cancer survival in Western Sydney.

Pasch J, MacDermid E, Toh J, Premaratne C, Fok KY, Pasch L, Kotecha K, Barto W and El Khoury T.
Poster presented at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Conference, Sydney, May 2021.

A risk tool that may have value in predicting lymph node metastases in T1 colorectal cancer and malignant polyps

MacDermid E, Pasch J, Rana A, Koneru S, Gill A, Pathmanathan N, Engel A.
Prize-winning poster presented at the General Surgeons Australia Meeting, Hobart, Oct 2019,
& The European Society of Coloproctology Annual Meeting Vienna Sep 2019.

Tumour infiltrating lymphocytes in colorectal cancer- impact on lymph node yield and rate of lymph node metastases

MacDermid, E., Pasch, J., Fok, K., Pasch, L., Premaratne, C., Kotecha, K., Barto, W., Toh, JWT, El Khoury, T.
Poster presentation to be made at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Conference, Sydney, May 2018.

Pathological factors in positive circumferential margins in rectal cancers

Pasch J, MacDermid E, Pasch LB, Premaratne C, Fok K, Kotecha K, El Khoury T, Barto W.
Poster presentation to be made at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Conference, Sydney, May 2018.

Colorectal cancer: the young and dangerous

Fok K, MacDermid E, Pasch J, Pasch L, Premaratne C, Kotecha K, Barto W, El Khoury T.
Poster presentation to be made at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Conference, Sydney, May 2018.

Modeled Decision Analysis Does Not Support The Routine Formation Of A Defunctioning Stoma In Low Anterior Resection.

E MacDermid, CJ Young, S Moug, R Anderson.
Poster presentation at The American Society of Colon And Rectum Surgeons, Annual Meeting 10th – 14th June 2017, Seattle

Deciding To Defunction After Rectal Surgery.

MacDermid E, Anderson R, Moug S, Young CJ, Shepherd H.
Poster presentation at the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, Edinburg, June 2016.

Relative Values Of Patient Outcomes.

MacDermid E, Anderson R, Moug S, Young CJ, Shepherd H.
Poster presentation at the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, Edinburg, June 2016.

Decision-making With Defunctioning Stomas and Rectal Anastomoses.

MacDermid E, Young C, Young J, Solomon M.
Poster presentation at the Tripartite Colorectal Conference, Cairns, June 2011.
Presented to the John Loewental Society, Sydney University, April 2010.

Haemorrhoid Management: What Are We Doing?

MacDermid E, O’Dwyer PJ, Renwick A, Chisholm L, McArthur D. A retrospective study of individual surgeons’ haemorrhoid management, presented as a poster at the Association of Surgeons in Training Conference, Belfast. (March 2007)

Lessons Learned: A Prospective Audit of the Bard™ Ventralex Hernia Patch For Ventral Hernias.

McArthur D, MacDermid E, Saghir J, Mitchell K. A 3 year study of recurrence and infection rates using a new hernia mesh, presented as a poster at the Association of Surgeons in Training Conference, Belfast. (March 2007)

pH Manometry, A New Service For Argyll and Clyde.

MacDermid E, Mitchell K, Ballantyne C. A retrospective study of outcomes following pH manometry, presented as a poster for the West of Scotland Surgical Association Meeting. (April 2006)