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Admitted to college of surgeons
Thursday, September 27, 2012
ONE of New Zealand’s few female general surgeons has been admitted to the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons . . . and she is based at Gisborne Hospital.

Professor Andrea Mueller says it is good to be acknowledged as equal.

“It’s quite a closed shop and not easy to get in. I am very proud to have achieved this.”

Having trained and worked in Germany, Professor Mueller’s specialty is abdominal surgery.

“General surgery is a base you can specialise on. I have worked in vascular, breast and neuro-surgery. I had some good achievements in my former life in Germany.”

At Berlin’s Charite University Hospital she performed pancreatic, small bowel, liver and kidney resections and transplants.

Resection is the removal of part of an organ.

Professor Mueller has worked at Gisborne Hospital for five years. She performs a broad spectrum of general surgery.

Tairawhiti District Health chairman David Scott says this is probably the first time TDH has had a professor of general surgery as a permanent employee on the staff.

“What makes it more incredible, it is a female professor of surgery in a predominantly male specialty.”
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT: Gisborne Hospital general surgeon Andrea Mueller has been admitted to the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Not only is Professor Mueller probably Tairawhiti District Health’s first professor of general surgery, she is one of New Zealand’s few female general surgeons. Picture by Paul Rickard
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