

Colorectal Surgery
MBBS, FRACS, Colorectal Surgeon at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside, QLD, Australia
Prof Andrew Stevenson is a colorectal surgeon with a clinical interest in minimally invasive and robotic-assisted colorectal surgeries, and colorectal cancer.
Prof Andrew Stevenson is committed to offering his patients the most up-to-date minimally invasive procedures. He started utilising robot-assisted techniques in 2009, and performed the Southern Hemisphere’s first documented robot-assisted male pelvic exenteration. He’s also undertaken extensive training in transanal total mesorectal incision (TME), and has contributed to an international consensus on its use in rectal cancer.
A keen researcher, Prof Stevenson has had work on laparoscopic ventral rectopexy procedures published in peer-reviewed journals, and is an executive member of the Queensland Clinical Oncology Group. He’s held the position of Chairman for the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand’s Training Board and is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland.
Selected publications from PubMed
A modified Delphi consensus on fusion (laparoscopic and robotic) approaches to colorectal surgery in Asia-Pacific.
Watanabe J, Kagawa Y, Nonaka T, Kim H, Cheewatanakornkul S, Chen PC, Chen WT, deSouza A, Hamabe A, Kagawa H, Lee YS, Ng SS, Stevenson ARL, Teo NZ, Uemura M, Wong KY, Ngu JC
J Gastroenterol. 2026 Sep;61(9):1284-1294 doi: 10.1007/s00535-026-02445-x.
Laparoscopic versus open surgery for rectal cancer: individual patient data meta-analysis of the ALaCaRT and Z6051 randomized trials.
Brown KGM, Stevenson ARL, Solomon MJ, Murray J, Wilson K, Gebski V, Fleshman J, Shi Q, Read TE, Simes J
BJS Open. 2026 Jul 3;10(4) doi: 10.1093/bjsopen/zrag119.
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Perry WRG, Christensen P, Collinson RJ, Cornish JA, D'Hoore A, Gurland BH, Mellgren A, Ratto C, Ris F, Stevenson ARL, Bordeainou L, Ventral Rectopexy Working Group
Dis Colon Rectum. 2026 Oct 1;69(10):2551 doi: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000004338.
Can Large Language Models Be a Viable Tool for Consensus Working Groups? Experience of the Ventral Rectopexy Expert Consensus Group.
Lee FG, Larson EL, Vermunt JV, Thiels CA, Christensen P, Collinson RJ, Cornish JA, D'Hoore A, Gurland BH, Mellgren A, Ratto C, Ris F, Stevenson ARL, Bordeianou LG, Perry WRG, Ventral Rectopexy Consensus AI Group and the Ventral Rectopexy Working Group
Dis Colon Rectum. 2026 May 1;69(5):836-846 doi: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000004058.
Long Term Functional Outcomes After Transabdominal Versus Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision: A Matched Comparative Study.
Moloney J, Lau S, Jeffery F, Zammit A, Eglinton T, Hayes J, Heriot A, Warrier S, Guest G, Merri A, Bell S, Gebski V, Stevenson A, Clark D
ANZ J Surg. 2026 May;96(5):1270-1277 doi: 10.1111/ans.70391.
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