Associate Professor Hensman is an Australian trained specialist General and GI Minimally invasive and Robotic surgeon based in Melbourne. His main interests are in Robotic and Advanced Minimally invasive surgery including Bariatric, Antireflux surgery, Reflux monitoring using High resolution impedence manometry and pH. He also has interests in Hernia and is a Hernia training mentor. He is currently the RACS ratified hernia Registry representative to the ANZ hernia registry and the RACS hernia mesh representative to the Therapeutic Goods Administration for Australia.
He was the ex officio President of the International Sympathectomy surgical society, he has been involved with research and conduct of Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy. He has completed a Masters course in Clinical leadership and management from the University of New Castle.
He is involved with undergraduate and post graduate teaching including formatting content and supervising The Adelaide based Masters in Minimally invasive surgery directed towards Qualified surgeons course over the last 10 years. He is the clinical supervisor to several PhD students.
His main research interests include supervising a fully funded 3-year PhD on Ergonomic benefits of Robotic surgery in collaboration with Swinburne University division of Robotics. He has published extensively on various topics in minimally invasive surgery including researching the role of Augmented reality in surgery and has been involved with two patents for surgical devices and has successfully received MRFF funding for research into hernia mesh infection. He has been involved in several new SaaS start up offerings.
