It is important we spend time working out which pituitary lesions require surgery and which don’t. Up to 20% of the people will have an abnormality in their pituitary and they do not all require surgery.

I am currently the surgical advisor for the Australian pituitary foundation and currently perform a large number of pituitary operations via a key hole approach each year. Together the ENT team, endocrinology team, radiologists, pathologists and radiation oncologists all patients are discussed at the combined pituitary meeting each month. This enables us to give each individual patient what we believe is the best care for them.

I was the cocordinator of the neurosurgery society of Australasias pituitary meeting in 2009 in Melbourne.