St Vincents Private Hospitals

Biography

Dr Nicholas Williams is a general surgeon specialising in weight loss surgery, upper gastrointestinal and endocrine (thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal) surgery.

Dr Nicholas Williams completed his medical degree at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2001 and, in 2009, became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in general surgery.

He then undertook a fellowship in hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgery at Royal North Shore Hospital, before pursuing a further fellowship in endocrine and advanced laparoscopic upper GI surgery at Mexico’s Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Science and Nutrition.

Returning to Australia in 2012, Dr Nicholas Williams founded regional Australia’s largest bariatric practice in the Riverina, and has since established the first regional public metabolic obesity clinic.

Dr Nicholas Williams is actively involved in medical education and is an associate lecturer at UNSW, as well as the Discipline Leader for Surgery at the University of Notre Dame’s rural campus.

Dr Williams operates at St Vincent's Private Community Hospital Griffith, Chris O'Brien Lifehouse in Sydney, Wagga Wagga Calvary Hospital and Wagga Wagga Base Hospital. 

At St Vincent's Private Community Hospital Griffith, Dr Williams offers the following services: 

• Gastroscopy and colonoscopy, including bowel screen/positive FOBT, assessment of reflux, work-up for reflux surgery.
• Laparoscopic inguinal and umbilical hernia.
• Laparoscopic gallbladder surgery. 
• Skin oncology, including flaps, grafts and cosmetically sensitive areas.

Dr Williams consults at St Vincent's Private Community Hospital Griffith for the entire range of upper gastrointestinal, bariatric endocrine and general surgical disease both benign and malignant.