Associate Professor Walid Barto

Associate Professor Walid Barto is a colorectal surgeon with appointments at Nepean Public and Private Hospitals, Sydney Adventist Hospital and Norwest Private Hospital. He is currently Head of Surgery at the Sydney Adventist Hospital. He has been performing joint gynaecological/colorectal surgeries for intestinal endometriosis with Associate Professor George Condous since 2012 In an Australian first, this team performed a collaborative surgery at Sydney Adventist Hospital using a high-resolution ultrasound technique which was ‘live-streamed’ in October 2019 to other gynaecological surgeons. Dr Barto is an expert in colonoscopy, gastroscopy, laparoscopic and robotic surgery.

He is also an active member of a multidisciplinary cancer care team that coordinates care for people with colon cancer.

He obtained his medical degree at the University of Sydney before commencing basic surgical training at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle. He completed his general surgical training at St Vincent’s Hospital and was awarded the Royal Australasian College Fellowship in 2009 He undertook additional training in colorectal surgery at The Alfred Hospital. Melbourne and at Westmead Hospital in 2010 as a fellow of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand. He is a senior lecturer at the Australian National University and is a proctor for Da Vinci Robotic Surgery.