CURRICULUM VITAE

 

BRUCE. N. FARNSWORTH MB BS (Sydney) FRCOG FRANZCOG

 

 

 

CONSULTANT GYNAECOLOGIST

PELVIC RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGEON

 

DIRECTOR

CENTRE FOR PELVIC RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY

SYDNEY ADVENTIST HOSPITAL

WAHROONGA

NEW SOUTH WALES

AUSTRALIA

 

 

 

PERSONAL DETAILS

 

 

 

 

NAME:                                                Bruce Norman Farnsworth

 

 

QUALIFICATION:                              MB BS            University of  Sydney 1981

                                                            MRCOG         Part 1              March 1983

                                                            MRACOG                              March 1987

                                                            MRCOG                                 July 1988

                                                            FRACOG                               February  1989

                                                            FRANZCOG                          1999

                                                            FRCOG                                  2000

 

 

NATIONALITY:                                   Australian

 

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

SECONDARY:                      Bega High School, 1969

                                                Springwood High School (1970-1975)

 

                                   

TERTIARY:                             Medicine

                                                University of Sydney 1976-1980

                                                Lidcombe Hospital Clinical School

 

 

CREDITS:                              Chemistry

                                                Physics

                                                Community Medicine

                                                Psychiatry

                                                Anatomy

                                                Biochemistry

                                                Behavioural Sciences

                                                Physiology

                                               

 

 

 

 


 

POST GRADUATE  EXPERIENCE

 

 

GENERAL

 

 

1981   INTERN          Westmead Hospital

 

                                    Accident and Emergency

                                    Professorial Surgery Unit - Professor Miles Little

                                    Colo-Rectal Surgery

                                    Plastic Surgery

                                    Professorial Medicine Unit -  Professor Peter Castaldi

                                    Paediatrics

                       

1988   SURGICAL RESIDENT

 

                                    Westmead Hospital

 

                                    Gynaecological Oncology

                                    Professor C N Hudson

                                    Dr A Crandon

 

                                    Intensive Care

General Surgery

                                    Obstetrics and Gynaecology

 

 

SURGERY

 

 

1983   Senior Resident in Surgery

 

                                               

                                    General Surgery and Urology Registrar, Blacktown Hospital

 

                                    Cardiothoracic Surgery Registrar, Westmead

 

 

 

 


ACCREDITED TRAINING IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY

 

 

1983-1987 Western Metropolitan Training Scheme

 

 

Pre-membership training in obstetrics and gynaecology was undertaken in the

Western Metropolitan Training Scheme based at Westmead Hospital, Sydney. 

 

 

 

1983               July-Dec                     Blacktown                  General O & G

1984               Jan-July                      Blacktown                  General O & G

                        July-Dec                     Westmead

                                                            Perinatology              Ass Prof B Trudinger

                                                                                                Dr W Giles

1985               Jan-Dec                     Nepean                      General O & G

1986               Jan-April                     Liverpool                    General O & G

1986               April-Jul                      Westmead                 General O & G

1986               Jul-Dec                       Westmead

                                                            Infertility Unit               Dr G Driscoll

                                                                                                Dr G A Mobbs

                                                            Perinatology              Ass Prof B Trudinger

                                                                                                Dr W Giles

                                                            Gynae-Urology          Dr J Gibson

1987               Jan-Jul                        Nepean Hospital       Senior Registrar

1987               Jul-Dec                       Westmead                 Senior Registrar

                                                            Gynaecological

                                                            Oncology                    Prof C R S Houghton

                                                                                                Dr A Crandon

 

 

 

 

1988   Registrar/ Senior Registrar O&G/Urogynaecology

ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL, BATH - UNITED KINGDOM

 

 

1989-1996   VISITING MEDICAL OFFICER, TAREE, NSW  AUSTRALIA

 

January 1989 -  Visiting Medical Officer at Manning Base Hospital, Taree. Taree is a regional centre on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales approximately 300 kilometres north of Sydney. The Area Health Service serves a population of around 80,000 with the hospital providing 174 acute beds. 

 

 

1989 – PRESENT

VISITING MEDICAL OFFICER -  CAPE HAWKE COMMUNITY PRIVATE HOSPITAL, FORSTER

 

1989 – PRESENT

VISITING MEDICAL OFFICER  -MAYO PRIVATE HOSPITAL, TAREE.

 

 

1997 – 2002   

VISITING GYNAECOLOGIST KEMPSEY DISTRICT HOSPITAL

 

 

1998 – 2002 

VMO, WOLPER HOSPITAL,

WOOLAHRA, SYDNEY

 

 

1998 – PRESENT

VMO, WESTMEAD PRIVATE HOSPITAL,

WESTMEAD, SYDNEY

 

 

1999 – PRESENT

VMO, MINCHINBURY HOSPITAL, SYDNEY

 

 

2000 – PRESENT

VMP, SYDNEY ADVENTIST HOSPITAL

 

 

2001 – PRESENT

DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR PELVIC RECONSTRUCTION

SAN CLINIC, SYDNEY ADVENTIST HOSPITAL

 

 

2005 – PRESENT   

VISITING SPECIALIST SURGEON,

DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY

HESPERIA HOSPITAL,

MODENA, ITALY

 

 

2006-PRESENT

HONORARY SPECIALIST GYNAECOLOGIST

HORNSBY-KUR-RING-HAI HEALTH SERVICE

HORNSBY HOSPITAL

 

 

 


CENTRE FOR PELVIC RECONSTRUCTION

 

The Centre for Pelvic Reconstruction at Sydney Adventist Hospital is a private clinic where gynaecologists, urologists and colorectal surgeons provide a multidisciplinary clinical service offering a range of diagnostic and treatment modalities.

 

 

SPECIAL INTERESTS:

 

1.         Clinical assessment of patients with stress incontinence and prolapse

2.         Surgery of Stress Incontinence, prolapse and enterocoele

3.         Ambulatory vaginal and incontinence surgery

4.         Post graduate medical education and clinical research

5.         Safe introduction of new medical technologies

 

 

 

MEMBERSHIP OF SOCIETIES:

 

Member, Australian Medical Association  1981 -  Present.

 

Australian Representative, OBGYN Net, Texas USA

 

1989 –2001

Member Fertility Society of Australia 

 

1993 – Present

Member Australian Gynaecological Endoscopy Society 

 

1993 -Present

Member National Association Specialist Obstetricians & Gynaecologists

 

Member South Pacific Regional Obstetrics & Gynaecology Society

 

1998  - 2005

Secretary, Association of Ambulatory Vaginal and Incontinence Surgeons

 

2003 - Present

Member, Kuring-gai District Medical Association

 

2005 - Present

Vice-President, Association of Ambulatory Vaginal and Incontinence Surgeons

 

 


 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

 

Quinn, M.J., Farnsworth, B., Pollard, W., Smith, PJB., and Stott, M. (1989)

Vaginal Ultrasound in the diagnosis of stress incontinence, a prospective comparison to urodynamic investigations.  Neurourol Urodyn 8, 291.

 

 

Farnsworth BN

Re:The sign of Stress incontinence—should we believe what we see?

Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 1997 Nov;37(4):436-9

 

 

Farnsworth BN

Posterior IVS (Infracoccygeal Sacropexy) for Vaginal Vault Prolapse.

A Preliminary Report of Efficacy and Safety.

Int Urogynecol J (2001) 12:Supplement 3 No 141

 

 

Farnsworth BN

Intravaginal Slingplasty. A Review of Safety after 5000 cases using a postal survey.

Int Urogynecol J (2001) 12:Supplement 3 No 224

 

 

Farnsworth BN

A Multicenter trial of the Intravaginal Slingplasty procedure with critical analysis of results, surgical methodology and complications therof

Int Urogynecol J (2001) 12:Supplement 3 No 225

 

 

Farnsworth BN

Posterior IVS (Infracoccygeal Sacropexy) for Vaginal Vault Prolapse.

A Preliminary Report of Efficacy and Safety.

Int Urogynecol J (2002) 13:4-8

 

 

Farnsworth, BN. Letter to the Editor

Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 2002; 42: 1:99

 

 

Farnsworth BN. IVS Procedure for Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery. Proceedings of 4th Asia-Pacific Congress of Advanced Gynaecological Endoscopy 2003. Pp 33-34.

 

 

Farnsworth BN. Pelvic Floor Anatomy and the Mechanisms of IVS. Proceedings of 4th Asia-Pacific Congress of Advanced Gynaecological Endoscopy 2003. P 64.

 

 

 

 

De Jong P.1, Radziszewski P.2, Dobronski P.2, Borkowski A.2, Cervigni M.3, Parsons M.4, Cardozo L.4, Farnsworth B.5, Nordling J.6, Groen J.7, Bosch R.8, Nissenkorn I.9
Electrical modulation of the pelvic floor for the treatment of interstitial cystitis
European Urology. 2005 Supplement.

 

 

Farnsworth B. . Initial results of pelvic floor electrostimulation for symptom relief in interstitial cystitis using the Miniaturo™-i system.

European Urology 2005. Supplement.

Awarded Best Poster for the Session. European Urology Congress. March 18th 2005.

 

 

Farnsworth B. De Vita D. Nuovo approccio protestico nella churigia ricostruttiva vaginale per il prolasso genitale. Pelvi-Perineologia revista Italiana di Colon-Proctologia, 24, 42-43, 2005.

 

 

Farnsworth B. Clinical update: Initial results of pelvic floor electrostimulation for symptom relief in interstitial cystitis.

Australian and New Zealand Continence Journal. 11(2) 38-40.

 

 

De Jong P, Radziszewski P, Dobronski P, Borkowski A, Cervigni M, Parsons M, Cardozo L, Farnsworth B, Nordling J.  Pelvic Floor Electrostimulation in Patients with Interstitial Cystitis: A Multicenter clinical Investigation.

Int Urogynecol J (2005) 16: Supplement 2 Number 51

 

 

Farnsworth BN, Parodi M. Total Vaginal Reconstruction with Polypropylene Mesh. Objective and Functional Outcome Assessment.

Int Urogynecol J (2005) 16: Supplement 2 Number 55

 

 

Farnsworth B, Parsons M, De Jong P, Radziszewski P, Peter D, Borkowski A, Cervigni M, Cardozo L, Nordling J, Groen J, Bosch J, Chapple C, O’Connell H, Rosamilia A, Nissenkorn I. Analysis of long-term pelvic floor electrostimulation therapy for interstitial cystitis.

Eur Urol Suppl 2006; 5(2)193 No 683

 

 

 

 

 


RESEARCH ACTIVITIES & PRESENTATIONS

 

 

Survey of Post Operative Complications, 1980.

 

A total of 201 patients were interviewed to determine the incidence of

common post-operative complications such as nausea, vomiting and pain.  The

efficacy of various pharmacological agents to control these problems was

compared.  Results were presented at a District Hospital Clinical Meeting.

 

Farnsworth BN. Rudimentary Horn Pregnancy

Case report and literature search presented to the Western Metropolitan

Obstetrics and Gynaecology Society Annual Meeting, Penrith August 1985.

 

Farnsworth BN. Ruptured Enterocele - Case report

Liverpool Hospital Clinical Meeting,

May 1986.

 

MJ Quinn, B Farnsworth ., D Bisson , Par Niven, GM Stirrat.

Vaginal endosonography: A New method for the Objective Assessment of the Pregnant Cervix.

Presented at British Society for Ultrasound in Medicine.

Edinburgh. 1988.

 

Farnsworth, BN. Intraabdominal Suture for Cervical Incompetence.

Annual Scientific Meeting. Newcastle O&G Society.

November 1992.

 

Farnsworth, BN.  Stemming the Tide .... The Importance of Urodynamic Investigations. Continence Foundation Seminar. Coffs Harbour.

20th November 1993.

 

Farnsworth BN.  Cancer Management.

Hunter Postgraduate Medical Institute.

Genital Tract Malignancy Symposium. 

27th August 1994.

 

Farnsworth BN. Introduction to the Internet.

Presented at RACOG Basic Computer Course.

Melbourne. November 1995.

 

Farnsworth, BN. Surgery for Pulsion Enterocele.

Presented at Grand Rounds. Manning Base Hospital.  April 1996.

 

Farnsworth, BN.

Obstetrics & Gynaecology on the Internet.

Presented at NOGS Scientific Meeting. Vineyard Resort.

9th November 1996.

 

 

Farnsworth, BN

Manning Valley CME Program

Lecture: Update on Incontinence

15th September 1997

 

Farnsworth BN

Lecture: Cape Hawke Community Hospital Grand Rounds

A New Procedure in Incontinence Surgery

20th November 1998

 

Farnsworth, BN

Presentation: 2nd Annual Scientific Meeting,

Australasian Association of Vaginal Incontinence Surgeons

Coolangatta October, 1999

Update in Surgical Technique, Vaginal Bridge Repair

 

Farnsworth,BN

Presentation: RANZCOG Provincial Fellows Meeting

Dubbo Base Hospital, September 2000

Update in Pelvic Surgery.

 

Farnsworth, BN

Presentation: 3rd Annual Scientific Meeting,

Australasian Association of Vaginal Incontinence Surgeons

La Trobe University, Melbourne October, 2000. Infracoccygeal Sacropexy

 

Farnsworth, BN

Presentation: 3rd Annual Scientific Meeting,

Australasian Association of Vaginal Incontinence Surgeons

La Trobe University, Melbourne October, 2000.

AAVIS Intravaginal Slingplasty Multicentre Trial

 

Farnsworth, BN

Live Operating Demonstration: 2nd Annual Scientific Meeting,

Australasian Association of Vaginal Incontinence Surgeons

La Trobe University, Melbourne October, 2000.

Infracoccygeal Sacropexy and Manchester Repair

 

Farnsworth B*, secretary
A multicentric experience of the Intravaginal Slingplasty procedure with critical analysis of results, surgical methodology and complications thereof
by members of the Australasian Association of Vaginal and Incontinence Surgeons

Presented at Australian Gynaecological Endoscopy Society IX Annual Scientific Meeting, 4th May 2001. Perth, Western Australia.

 

Presentations at 3rd Royal Perth Hospital Course in Ambulatory Surgery.

Royal Perth Hospital. 5th May 2001.

Introduction to the Integral Theory.

Intravaginal Slingplasty.

Infracoccygeal Sacropexy.

Gynaecological Symposium. Riks Hospital, Oslo, Norway.

May 14th, 2001.

Presentations:

Introduction to the Integral Theory.

Intravaginal Slingplasty.

Infracoccygeal Sacropexy.

 

One Day Workshop in Incontinence Surgery and Pelvic Reconstruction.

May 15th, 2001. University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

Presentations:

Introduction to the Integral Theory.

Intravaginal Slingplasty.

Infracoccygeal Sacropexy.

 

One Day Workshop in Incontinence Surgery and Pelvic Reconstruction.

May 16th, 2001. Eindhoven, Holland

Presentations:

Introduction to the Integral Theory.

Intravaginal Slingplasty.

Infracoccygeal Sacropexy.

 

Scientific Meeting: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Bath, England.

May 17th 2001.

Presentations:

Introduction to the Integral Theory.

Intravaginal Slingplasty.

Infracoccygeal Sacropexy.

 

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Poole, England.

One Day Workshop in Incontinence Surgery and Pelvic Reconstruction.

Plummer Manor, Dorset. May 19th 2001.

Presentations:

Introduction to the Integral Theory.

Intravaginal Slingplasty., Infracoccygeal Sacropexy.

Presentation: Department of Urology, Middlesex Hospital. London, United Kingdom.

The Institute of Urology. May 21st 2001.

Advances in Pelvic Surgery.

 

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Osnabruck, Germany.

Two Day Workshop in Incontinence Surgery and Pelvic Reconstruction.

May 22nd – 23rd 2001.

Presentations:

Introduction to the Integral Theory.

Intravaginal Slingplasty.

Infracoccygeal Sacropexy.

 

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Milan, Italy.

One Day Workshop in Incontinence, Surgery and Pelvic Reconstruction.

Polymedica Clinic, Milan, Italy. May 25th 2001

Presentations:

Introduction to the Integral Theory.

Intravaginal Slingplasty.

Infracoccygeal Sacropexy.

 

Introductory Workshop in Ambulatory Vaginal Surgery.

Sydney Adventist Hospital, Wahroonga, New South Wales

August 31, 2001.

Presentations:

Integral Theory

Posterior IVS

Live Operating Demonstrations Intravaginal Slingplasty, Posterior IVS

 

One Day Workshop in Incontinence, Surgery and Pelvic Reconstruction.

Durbanville Hospital, Capetown, South Africa, September 6th, 2001.

Presentations:

Introduction to the Integral Theory.

Intravaginal Slingplasty.

Infracoccygeal Sacropexy.

Live Operating Demonstrations Intravaginal Slingplasty, Anterior Bridge Repair

 

One Day Workshop in Incontinence, Surgery and Pelvic Reconstruction.

Pretoria Urology Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa, September 8th, 2001.

Presentations:

Introduction to the Integral Theory.

Intravaginal Slingplasty.

Infracoccygeal Sacropexy.

Live Operating Demonstration - Posterior Intravaginal Slingplasty

 

Australian Gynaecological Endoscopy Society

Pelvic Floor Symposium and Workshop

Preventing and Managing Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

Mater Misericordae Hospital, Sydney.

!4th-15th September 2001

Live Surgical Demonstration – Intravaginal Slingplasty

 

Presentation: Update in Pelvic Surgery

NSW Day Surgery Nurses Association Annual Conference 2001.

Sydney. September 22nd 2001.

 

Presentation: Review of Intravaginal Slingplasty

Tyco Masterclass.

Paris, France. September 25th 2001

 

Live Surgery Workshop.

University of Helsinki

Helsinki Finland

October 1st 2001.

 

 

 

Live Surgery Workshop

Karolinska Institute

Stockholm, Sweden

October 2nd 2001.

 

Presentation: IUGA Workshop

Introduction to the Integral Theory, Intravaginal Slingplasty and Posterior IVS.

Melbourne, Victoria. December 5th 2001.

 

Presentations:

Update in Pelvic Surgery.

John Flynn Hospital, Tugun. Queensland

January 17th 2002

 

Presentation:

Secret Womens Business. Update in Gynaecology.

Mosman and District GPs Association.

Crows Nest, Sydney.

February 12th 2002.

 

Presentation:

Urinary Stress Incontinence – different approaches to management.

Western Metropolitan Obstetrics and Gynaecology Society.

Blacktown Hospital, Sydney.

February 17th 2002

 

Presentation

Functional Anatomy of Female Pelvic Floor

The XXIV Biennial Congress of the Urological Association of South Africa

Sun City, South Africa.

March 21st 2002.

 

Presentation