Gastrointestinal surgeon honoured in Queen's Birthday list

A doctor who specialises in gastrointestinal surgery has been made a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List announced on Monday. Professor Glyn Jamieson, a pioneer of laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery in Australia, was given his award “for service to medicine through the advancement of gastrointestinal surgical techniques, education, research and professional organisations”. Along with his work developing laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery, he has been a senior examiner with the College of Surgeons and a chairman of the college’s division of research, as well as being involved in the production of seven text books and 300 peer reviewed articles. Professor Jamieson told Gastroenterology Update that he has been a surgeon since 1971, and first developed an interest in gastrointestinal surgery when he helped develop an oesophageal motility laboratory while working in the United States in 1974. “When I came back here to Adelaide at the end of 1974 there was nowhere you could get motility studies and … I had a few patients who I thought needed [them] so I set up a motility lab and it sort of developed from there,” he said....