Dr Dip Raj Rai is an Australian trained specialist General Surgeon and Breast & Endocrine Surgeon and currently works at Norwest Private Hospital, Lakeview Private Hospital, and Westmead Private Hospital. He completed his General Surgical training at Westmead Hospital and acquired the Fellowship of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in General Surgery (FRACS) in 2018. He worked as General Surgical Clinical Superintendent and General Surgeon at Blacktown and Mount Druitt hospital for a year. He subsequently undertook two years of fellowship training in Breast and Endocrine Surgery, accredited by Breast Surgeons of Australia & New Zealand (BreastSurgANZ society) with first year being in Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand, and second year in Nepean Hospital, Sydney. He is accredited with GESA for a diagnostic endoscopy and colonoscopy. Dr Rai is originally from Nepal. He worked in the surgical specialty in Kathmandu and the UK where he obtained Intercollegiate membership of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (MRCS) before migrating to Australia. He is well known for his friendly mannerism, compassion, thorough clinical assessment, and excellent surgical skill.

He ranked among the top achievers in the National merit list for both high school and college-level exams and subsequently gained a full scholarship to complete a medical degree from Sylhet Osmani Medical College, Bangladesh. Dr Rai is a member of BreastSurgANZ society, General Surgeons Australia (GSA), and holds GESA accreditation for diagnostic endoscopy and colonoscopy.

Areas of expertise: Gallbladder surgery, Hernia Repair Surgery, Skin surgeries, Hand Surgery, Vasectomy, Emergency General Surgeries such as Appendix surgery; Bowel obstruction surgery, Oncoplastic breast surgery and also Thyroid and parathyroid surgery.

Special Interests:

General Surgery

Gallbladder surgery – (for gall stones and polyp) – laparoscopic approach

Hernia repair surgery – laparoscopy inguinal hernia/umbilical/paraumbilical/incisional hernias

Skin surgery – excision of malignant skin lesion/ lipoma/ cysts

Hand surgery – carpal tunnel decompression; ganglion cyst excision Vasectomy, circumcision, in-growing toenail

Scopes – Gastroscopy and colonoscopy

Emergency General surgery – Appendix surgery; Bowel obstruction surgery etc

Breast Surgery

Benign and malignant conditions – Oncoplastic breast surgery

Endocrine surgery

Thyroid and parathyroid surgery