About Me

2024

• Excellence in Medical Services – Camden and Campbelltown Hospital

2023 – Certificate of Publication (Highly Cited Paper)

• Recognition of publishing a ‘Highly Cited Paper‘ in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

2022 – Peter Braithwaite Memorial Prize

• Appendicitis outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: the South Western Sydney Experience. Dr Daisy Frankcombe, MBBS MS, Dr Neha Gauri MBBS, Dr Yicong Liang MBBS, Sarah Bak, Tanvi Suri, Prof Neil Merrett MBBS FRACS, Dr Devesh Kaushal MBBS MS FRACS. Annual scientific meeting. Tasmania 13 August 2022.

2013 – Best Poster Presentation Award

• Kaushal D, Nagaonkar -Evaluating the efficacy and impact on Quality of life of 120W KTP laser for treating bladder outlet Obstruction.28^th Annual EUA Congress, Milan, Italy.15-19 March 2013

Dr Devesh Kaushal has a clinical research interest in the following areas:

• Cancer: oesophagus, stomach, pancreas
• Obesity: weight loss surgery, cancers and related diseases
• General & Upper-GI Surgery: appendix, hernia, reflux
• Colorectal Surgery: cancer and diseases

Click below to see Dr Kaushal’s full research and publication history in these areas: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Devesh-Kaushal

Publications:

• Cellular Senescence and Extracellular Vesicles in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Obesity—A Narrative Review, Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2024, 25(14), 7943
• ADOPTERs of Innovation in a Crisis: The History of Vera Gedroits, Kanehiro Takaki and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, Annals of Surgery, 5(2):p e422, June 2024
• Netosis in Surgery: Pathophysiology, Prevention and Treatment. Annals of Surgery ():10.1097, January 12, 2024
• OGC P18 10-year survival following oesophagectomy and 2-field lymphadenectomy: a retrospective cohort study; British Journal of Surgery, Vol. 110, Nov 2023
• Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Future Cancer Risk. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Mar 24;24(7):6192
• Molecular Mechanisms of Western Diet-Induced Obesity and Obesity-Related Carcinogenesis—A Narrative Review. Metabolites, 2023, 13(5), 675
• Management of Acute Appendicitis during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a retrospective cohort study, BMC Surgery, 2022, 22:393
• Modified Longmire procedure: a novel approach to bile duct injury repair. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2019, Nov;89(11):E554-E555
• Tail gut cyst: An unusual case. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2019, 89(3), 264-265

Presentations:

• The importance of NETOSIS for surgeons, RACS ASC, Adelaide ,1-5 May 2023
• A Tale of Two Surgeons – Vera Gedroits, Kanehiro Takaki and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, Campbelltown Hospital, RACS ASC 1-5,May 2023
• Retrospective audit of the utility of Point of Care Ultrasound in suspected appendicitis in a South Western Sydney hospital, Campbelltown Hospital
• Emergency Laparotomies and bowel cancer presentation during COVID pandemic, Campbeltown Hospital, Sydney South-West Local Health District, March 2023
• Presented at SWAN conference March 2023, Liverpool
• An Australian multi-centre analysis of the management of patients requiring emergency laparotomy during the COVID pandemic. Department of Surgery, Campbelltown Hospital, March 2023
• Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Surgery in South Western Sydney. World Society of Emergency Surgery congress meeting Perth, 2022
• Appendicitis outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: the South Western Sydney Experience. Annual Scientific Meeting, Tasmania, 2022
• 14-Year Experience of Oesophageal Cancer Treatment from a Single Centre,  Oral presentation in PSA, ASC 2021
• Left sided gallbladder: Case report with literature review presented at ANZGOSA Wellington New Zealand, 2018. (Australia and New Zealand Gastric and Oesophageal Surgery Association)
• A 5-year retrospective Australian study of the modified LIFT procedure presented at ASC (Annual Scientific Congress meeting), 2017. Abstract ID-31259
• Evaluating the efficacy and impact on quality of life of 120W KTP laser for treating bladder outlet obstruction, 28th Annual EUA Congress, Milan, Italy. 2013
• Is there a role for non-operative management of Medium and Large Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Children? Indian Association of Pediatric surgeons meeting, 2012
• Role of USG in Acute appendicitis in children under 3 years of age. Indian Association of Pediatric surgeons meeting, 2012
• Photophytodermatitis mimicking burns-an unusual case. Pacific association of Pediatrics Surgeons, Shanghai, China, 2012

Posters:

• RACS 92nd Scientific Congress 2024 – Fast Track Ambulatory Abscess Pathway in 2277 patients. A single institution experience over 5 years
• RACS 92nd Scientific Congress 2024 – How much could the Health Care System save by avoiding General anaesthesia in General surgical patients with abscesses?

Devesh sadly lost his mother in 2024 after she had a short, but intense battle with cancer.

Devesh’s mother was the driving force behind him becoming a doctor, and ultimately a surgeon and cancer researcher.

Devesh wishes to dedicate his clinical practice and dedication to patient care in the honour of his mother, whose teaching and guidance made him the doctor he is today.