Dr. Rodney Jacobs, M.Sc., MBBS, FRACS Epworth-Freemasons Hospital, Alfred Hospital and Western Health Melbourne, Australia Rod Jacobs is an Australian-trained general surgeon with degrees in Science and Medicine. Surgical training at The Royal Melbourne Hospital was followed post fellowship with time in Sydney and London before returning to Melbourne. He holds public and private hospital appointments and has transitioned his practice from Upper GI to exclusively hernia surgery in the past few years. Rod is a member of the Epworth Gastrointestinal and General Surgery Clinical Institute executive; the inaugural President of the ANZ Hernia Society; active on the International Hernia Collaboration; a prior faculty member for the AHS meeting and the AWR-Deep Impact conference. He is a revi