Mr Niruben Rajasagaram is a consultant bariatric, oesophago-gastric and general surgeon who has extensive knowledge in advanced laparoendoscopic surgery. 

He studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He has up to 14 years of general surgery experience behind him. He obtained his membership to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (MRCS) in 2004 and then went on to graduate as a consultant general surgeon obtaining his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in 2011.

Furthering his career and in his aim to be a specialist surgeon, he went on to do four years of fellowship in bariatric, upper gastrointestinal and advanced biliary surgery. He chose to do three of the four years of his specialisation in Melbourne (Western Hospital, Alfred Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne).

In addition he has also completed the Australian New Zealand Gastro-Oesophageal Surgery Association (ANZGOSA) training program and satisfied the standards of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia for gastroscopy and colonoscopy.

Mr Rajasagaram's special interests include: 

• laparoscopic gall bladder surgery
• laparoscopic groin hernia surgery
• primary and revisional weight loss surgery
• gastric sleeve
• gastric bypass and mini gastric bypass
• gastric sleeve to gastric bypass
• gastric band to gastric bypass (single stage)
• gastric balloon