Dr Alex Papachristos is an Endocrine and General surgeon. After completing surgical training in 2019 at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, he undertook subspecialty training in renal transplant surgery, followed by endocrine surgery as the TS Reeve fellow at the prestigious University of Sydney Endocrine Surgery Unit. In 2022 he was invited to join the unit as a consultant.

With a special interest in advanced thyroid cancer management, Alex contributes to the Endocrine Oncology multidisciplinary team at Royal North Shore Hospital and is involved with clinical trials for patients with locally advanced and metastatic disease. He also has an interest in minimally invasive adrenal surgery, offering both laparoscopic and posterior retroperitoneoscopic approaches.

Outside the operating theatre, Alex is actively involved in translational research and has completed a PhD in medullary thyroid cancer. He was awarded the prestigious Herbert and Gloria Kees Research Scholarship to support this research and was the recipient of the best scientific paper prize at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons annual scientific congress.

Alex is also passionate about teaching, and completed a Master of Surgical Education by thesis, exploring trainees' experience with learning in the operating theatre. For this project, he was awarded the AO Education Institute fellowship and was invited to present his work in near-peer learning and surgical coaching at the international association for health professionals AMEE conference. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Sydney, and manages the surgical curriculum for the fourth-year medical students at the Northern Clinical School.