Mr Krishna Epari

Krishna co-founded Upper GI West with fellow Specialist, Mr Alan Thomas in 2008. Their practice has grown exponentially to offer a multi-disciplinary approach – offering their patients an all-encompassing service to provide the best possible outcomes; including multiple specialist surgeons, bariatric physicians and dietitians.

Krishna is an Australian trained Surgeon. He was born and educated in Hobart where he graduated with Honours from the University of Tasmania. He relocated to Victoria to undertake a Fellowship in General Surgery. He subsequently completed a three-year sub-specialty training program of Upper Gastrointestinal, Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Obesity Surgery at Box Hill, Fremantle and St Vincent’s Hospitals.

Krishna returned to Perth in 2007 as a specialist Surgeon and has become a leading Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon in Australia with expertise across both Oesophago-Gastric and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery which are now separate disciplines. He has performed over 500 major resectional procedures for Cancers of the Oesophagus, Stomach, Liver and Pancreas. He has served a full term on the executive board of the Australian and New Zealand Gastric and Oesophageal Surgeons Association (ANZGOSA). He has been the Clinical Lead for the Western Australia Clinical Oncology Group (WACOG) Upper Gastrointestinal Tumour Collaborative. He has been a surgical advisor to the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Structured Pathology Reporting of cancer project.

Krishna has a keen interest in minimally invasive surgery and application of technology to improve patient outcomes. He has developed very advanced laparoscopic skills and applied them to the most complex procedures including oesophageal, pancreatic and liver resections in addition to complex bariatric and revisional procedures.  He is currently the only Upper GI and Bariatric Surgeon trained in Robotic Surgery and offering these procedures to Western Australian patients. In addition to diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy (Gastroscopy and Colonoscopy) he is one of few surgeons trained in ERCP procedures.

Krishna is a leader in minimally invasive Upper GI and Bariatric Surgery and has continued to innovate and bring the latest advances to Western Australia.

2005 - 1^st Surgeon to perform Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy in WA

2007 - 1^st Surgeon to perform Laparoscopic Liver Resection in WA

2010 - 1^st Surgeon to perform Laparoscopic Gastrectomy for cancer in WA

2011 - 1^st Surgical Team to perform totally Minimally Invasive Oesophagectomy in WA

2014 - 1^st Surgical Team to perform Laparoscopic Assisted Whipples Pancreaticoduodenectomy in WA

2019 – 1^st Surgeon to perform Robotic Bariatric Surgery in WA

2019 – 1^st Surgeon to perform Robotic Sleeve Gastrectomy in WA

2019 – 1^st Surgeon to perform Robotic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in WA

2019 – 1^st Surgeon to perform Robotic Single Anastomosis Gastric Bypass in WA

2019 – 1^st Surgeon to perform Robotic Single Anastomosis Duodenal Switch (SIPS/SADI-S) in WA

2019 – 1^st Surgeon to perform Robotic Gastrectomy for cancer in WA

Krishna has extensive experience managing malignancies of the Oesophagus, Stomach, Pancreas and Liver and has interests in primary and revisional Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, primary and revisional Hiatus Hernia repair, Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease, Gallstones and Abdominal Hernias.