About Dr Costa Karihaloo
BSc (Med)(Hons), MBBS, FRACS
Obesity & General Surgeon
Dr Costa Karihaloo performs surgery for gastro-intestinal cancer, gallstones, weight loss, hernia and reflux, and upper and lower gastro-intestinal endoscopy.
Costa Karihaloo grew up in Newcastle and did his medical training at Sydney University and his surgical training based in the Hunter region.
He returned to practice after finishing his fellowship in advanced laparoscopic GI surgery on the Gold Coast. He has appointments in the private and public sectors and is former Director of General Surgery at John Hunter Hospital, and current chair of the Medical Advisory Committee at Lake Macquarie Private Hospital. He has been performing bariatric surgery in the primary and revisional setting for 15 years.
He performed the first laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in the Hunter region in 2008 and has successfully performed over 1000 cases since then. He performed the first laparoscopic gastric bypass in the region in 2009, the first laparoscopic mini-gastric bypass in 2013 and the first laparoscopic post pyloric bypass in 2018. He has been a regular contributor and presenter at national and international meetings and has a particular interest in body composition post bariatric surgery as well as adjuvant medical therapies post weight loss surgery.
Dr Costa is committed to lifelong follow up of his bariatric surgical patients and ongoing research and quality improvement to optimise patient outcomes.
Areas of Specialty
Obesity
Oesophagus
Pancreas
Gall bladder
Stomach, Spleen
Intestine
Rectum
Appendix
Hernia
Education
Newcastle High School 1983-86
Sydney Boys High School 1986-88
Sydney University 1990-96
Qualifications
BSc(Med)(Hons 1) 1993
MBBS 1996
FRACS 2006
Hospital Appointments
VMO, John Hunter Hospital
VMO, Belmont District Hospital
VMO, Lake Macquarie Private Hospital
VMO, Warners Bay Private Hospital
President, Hunter Surgical Society 2010-12
Director, Department of General Surgery John Hunter Hospital 2017-2021
Surgical Experience
First Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in the Hunter region – June 2008
First Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass in the Hunter region – June 2009
First Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy in the Hunter region – August 2009
Laparoscopic Gastric Banding – 500+ cases
Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy – 800+ cases
Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass – 100+ cases
Laparoscopic Single Anastomosis Gastric Bypass (“mini bypass”)
Laparoscopic Gastric Plication
Laparoscopic Colectomy – 200+ cases
Laparoscopic Fundoplication
Laparoscopic Hernia Repair – 1000+ cases
Laparoscopic Bile Duct Exploration
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy – 1000+ cases
Laparoscopic distal Pancreatectomy, segmental Heptatectomy, Splenectomy, Adrenalectomy
Pancreaticoduodenectomy
Biliary resection/reconstruction
Hepatectomy
Extensive experience of all emergent and elective open general surgical procedures and trauma
Demonstrator at Bard Floseal Workshop September 2007, Royal Brisbane Hospital
Demonstrator at Tyco Laparoscopic Colectomy Workshop August 2007, Gold Coast
Bariatric Surgery – Beyond the Basics. Johnson and Johnson workshop July 2007, Melbourne
Advanced Bariatric Surgery – workshop, Hamburg August 2009
Intragastric Balloon – workshop, Sydney September 2010
Laparoscopic Ventral Rectopexy – workshop, Brisbane August 2011
Apollo endoscopic suturing workshop – Sydney November 2016
Publications
The Allergens of Alternaria Alternata. BSc(med) Thesis, Sydney University, 1993.
Britton WJ, Tovey ER, Sluyter R, Karihaloo C (1994). Analysis of IgE reactivity to house dust mite, grass pollen and fungal allergens in MZ and DZ twins by immunoblotting. Allergy Clin Immunol News (sup) 2:315
Wills VL, Gibson K, Karihaloo C, Jorgensen JO (2002). Complications of biliary T-tubes after choledochotomy. ANZ J. Surg. 72(3): 177 -80. Listed in top 20 most cited articles from ANZJS
Karihaloo C, Tovey ER, Mitakakis TZ, Duffy DL, Britton WJ (2002). Evidence for the genetic control of immunoglobulin E reactivity to the allergens of Alternaria alternata. Clinical and Experimental Allergy 32(9):1316-22.
Agrez M, Karihaloo C, Reeves G, Puvaneswary M, Sturm L, Scurry J (2004). Rectal cancer masquerading as an amoeboma: case report and review of the literature. ANZ J Surg. 74(9):812-5.
Dewar D, Karihaloo C, Gani J Splenosis, Splenunculi.http://www.surgicalexam.com/case-reports/report1.html
Karihaloo C. Obesity Surgery: the 21st century evidence. Medicine Today. 11(8):81-3.
Williams J, Karihaloo C. Comparison of gastric banding and sleeve gastrectomy. ANZCS ASC 2011.
Karihaloo C. Body composition after sleeve gastrectomy. IFSO 2013
Presentations (2012-)
Bariatric surgery and fertility. Newcastle Obstetric and Gynaecology Society. October 2012
Body composition after sleeve gastrectomy. IFSO Istanbul, Turkey August 2013
Metabolic surgery. Internal Medicine Society of ANZ. Newcastle September 2013
Complex ventral hernia repair. Newcastle November 2014
NEWCASTLE OBESITY & WEIGHT LOSS CLINIC