Dr Simon Ghosh is a consultant General and Laparoscopic (keyhole) surgeon specialising in Bariatric weight loss surgery on the Central Coast.

Weight Loss Surgery

Dr Simon Ghosh is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons Australia in General Surgery and has undertaken further formal training in Bariatric Surgery with Dr George Hopkins at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and Holy Spirit Private Hospital. The fellowship was a high-volume practice with a caseload of more than 500 bariatric procedures annually.

These included primary bariatric cases including:

• Gastric sleeve
• Mini-gastric bypass / single anastomosis gastric bypass
• Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
• Laparoscopic gastric band placement
• Band removal
• Revisional bariatrics
  • band to bypass
  • band to sleeve
  • sleeve to bypass

Laparoscopic & General Surgery

Dr Ghosh also offers surgery in emergency and elective cases including:

• Gastroscopy
• Colonoscopy
• Skin cancer excisions
• Laparoscopic (keyhole) and open repair of
  • Inguinal hernia
  • Femoral hernia
  • Umbilical / paraumbilical hernia
  • Incisional ventral hernias
• Laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair (anti-reflux surgery)
• Laparoscopic removal of gallbladder (gallstones)
• Open and Laparoscopic hemicolectomy
• Appendicectomy
• Haemorrhoid surgery
• Circumcision
• In-growing toenails