Casey Surgical Group

He completed his medical degree at Melbourne University. He went on to train as a General Surgeon, obtaining his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1978.He spent a post fellowship year in the University Department at Glasgow Royal Infirmary working with Prof L HBlumgart. Whilst working with Prof Blumgart, who later became Professor of Hepatobiliary Surgery at the Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital, Leigh devised a technique which was a significant advance in hepatobiliary surgery.

Graduated from Monash University in 1976 and after completing his post-graduate surgical training at the Alfred Hospital was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1984. Two years of post fellowship general surgical training in the United Kingdom saw him return to Australia and join Casey Surgical Group in 1986.

Graduated from Flinders University, Adelaide in 1998. He trained in all aspects of General Surgery at Monash Health, Peninsula Health and Royal Hobart hospitals. Mikhail was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2008. Following further post-fellowship training in Laparoscopic and Colorectal surgery at Dandenong Hospital, Mikhail became a member of the Casey Surgical Group in 2010. Mikhail’s special interest is in laparoscopic surgery for hernias, colon and gallbladder disease.