Dr Jason Free

MEET OUR TEAM

DR FREE AND HIS QUALIFIED TEAM AT SURGERY GOLD COAST SPECIALISE IN WORKING WITH PATIENTS ON AN EFFICIENT PATHWAY THROUGH THEIR SURGICAL JOURNEYS. THEIR PROFESSIONAL TEAM AIMS TO PROVIDE A WARM AND FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE TO DISCUSS YOUR NEEDS.

Dr Dana Pakrou

Dana is a specialist anaesthetist working in both public and private practice on the Gold Coast with subspecialty training in cardiac, bariatric and ENT surgery.

He has been working with Jason at Pindara since 2014 and together they have cared for countless patients over that time. Outside of work Dana enjoys spending time with his wife and two young boys aged three and one. He also stays active and is a keen runner and cyclist making the most of the beautiful outdoor lifestyle the Gold Coast offers.

Dr Zara Summers

Zara completed her medical training in 2016 at the University of Melbourne. She is currently a general surgery trainee in Brisbane and surgical assistant at Pindara Hospital with a future interest in breast and oncoplastic surgery. Outside of surgery, she loves surfing, art and design, and indoor gardening. Zara has been working with Surgery Gold Coast for three years.

Dr Poppy Ehemann

Poppy is a General surgical and Urological PHO working on the Gold Coast. She completed her medical degree in 2019 from the University of Wollongong with an interest in rural and remote surgery. She is currently undertaking her Masters in medical research and hopes to gain a position as a formal surgical trainee next year. Poppy has been working with Dr Free assisting in theatre for the past 12 months and is currently the lead researcher at Surgery Gold Coast.

Dr Jason Free

The Surgery Gold Coast Team is led by Dr Jason Free, a General and Laparoscopic surgeon who specialises in weight-loss surgery and Hepatobiliary surgery. He has trained extensively in these fields in Australia and overseas. In addition to performing the common weight-loss procedures such as the sleeve gastrectomy (gastric sleeve surgery), gastric bypass, gastric banding, and he has experience in revisionary weight-loss procedures involving operations on people who have had poor outcomes from prior procedures.

Dr Free has also trained in Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary surgery and has spent two years full-time as a surgeon in units specialising in pancreatic and liver cancer surgery. He has trained as part of the Australian and New Zealand HepatoPancreatico-Biliary Association’s training program. His interest over the past two years has involved advancement of skills in laparoscopic liver surgery.

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WEIGHT-LOSS SURGERY SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY

This procedure involves resection of about 85-90 percent of the stomach, converting the stomach from a large bag into a narrow tube, thus decreasing the amount of food that can be eaten. A sleeve gastrectomy provides extremely good rapid weight-loss, about 70-75 percent excess weight-loss.

Dr Jason Free is one of Australia’s most highly-regarded experts in weight-loss surgery, with extensive specialist bariatric training, and is known as a foremost surgeon in the field.