About Us

Peter is a vascular surgeon and is the Practice Principal and Managing Director of Adelaide Vascular. Peter has 22 years of experience as a consultant in Adelaide’s private and public health systems - Peter is a Senior Vascular Consultant at the Royal Adelaide Hospital with appointments to regional SA – he is visiting specialist at Mt Barker DSM, Stirling Hospital and the Riverland Regional Hospital. Peter’s areas of experience include open and endovascular aortic aneurysm repair, distal bypass grafting for limb salvage, carotid disease management including surgery (endarterectomy) and endovenous laser treatment of varicose veins. Like all contemporary vascular surgeons, he also performs endovascular interventions for peripheral arterial disease.

Professional interests and experiences.

Peter has been part of the development of the Adelaide Vascular Trials—a national pre-fellowship examination course for vascular surgical trainees and candidates sitting the FRACS Vascular exit examination.  which has run annually since 2001 – Peter is currently the Chairman of the Board of AVT (AUS) Pty Ltd. This is on of Peter’s interests - trainee education, training and preparation for Fellowship assessment. He was elected to the Board of Vascular Surgery (2009 to 2018) which is the body overseeing training of vascular surgeons in Australia and New Zealand.

Peter has served in the Convenor role of Vascular 2008—the Annual Spring Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Vascular Surgery.   In role as Secretary of the state committee of the RACS, Peter also convened the 2011 Tripartite Annual Scientific Meeting of the RACS State Committees representing surgeons in SA, NT and WA. In 2017. Peter was Convener of the Annual Scientific Congress of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons – on the theme of “Safety and Sustainability – the Future of Surgery”

Peter has served on the South Australian Committee of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (RACS) – as Secretary in 2010-2012, then as Chair of the State Committee between the years of 2012-2014.

Co-chair of the Vascular Clinical Committee (VCC) of the Commonwealth Taskforce of the Medicare Benefits Schedule, - the Taskforce delivered its recommendations the Commonwealth Minister of Health in May of 2020.  

As a member of the Australian Delegation to APEC Business Ethics Forum (Tokyo 2018) which delivered the Australian Consensus Framework on Ethical Relationships between Health Care Workers and Industry, Peter serves as one of the founding members of the Steering Committee of the Australian Ethical Healthcare Alliance

His involvement and interest in safety and quality sees him serve on the Medical Advisory Committee of Adelaide Community Health Alliance and is the Clinical Advisor in Vascular Surgery.

Since 2019, Peter has been a Medical Lead in the Surgery Program of the Central Adelaide Local Healthcare Network – the Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals.

After serving on the executive of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Vascular Surgery (ANZSVS) including as Chairman of the Relationships and Advocacy Portfolio (2011-2018), Peter was elected President of the Society in 2020.  

In December of 2020, Peter was elected President of the World Federation of Vascular Societies – completing his term of office in 2022. He now sits on World Federation Council as representative for Australia and New Zealand.

In 2021, Peter was elected as Chair of Council of the South Australian branch of the Australian Medical Association.