Andrew Stevenson is Senior Colorectal Surgeon, Clinical Professor in surgery at University of Queensland and and past Head of the Colorectal Surgery department at Royal Brisbane Hospital and Honorary Associate of the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, Sydney, Australia.

Along with the team in Brisbane, Andrew has conducted over 200 workshops on minimally invasive techniques and and now conducts regular masterclasses on advanced laparoscopic colorectal surgery including transanal TME, ventral rectopexy and robotics both locally and overseas. Andrew has pioneered and championed both ventral rectopexy and transanal TME, laparoscopy and robotics as well fluorescence and image-guided surgery in Australasia. Prof Stevenson is past Chair of the ANZ Training Board in Colorectal Surgery and recently awarded the distinguished Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Colorectal Surgery and Honorary Fellow of the Colorectal Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Andrew has been closely involved in the international consensus forum into the development of new minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of rectal prolapse (ventral rectopexy), transanal TME for rectal cancer and the forthcoming consensus on fluorescence imaging in colorectal surgery. Andrew has served on a number of editorial journal boards and is a regular reviewer. Prof Stevenson is the principal investigator for a number of multi centre trials on minimal invasive colorectal surgery (including ALaCaRT and the new trial of robotic v. laparoscopic colectomy - RoLaCaRT)