Our Team

Our Surgeons

Dr Dean A Fisher

MBBS FRACS

Provider No.206853AK

Dean is a General Surgeon with a special interest in cancer surgery, particularly breast and colorectal cancer. He is a foundation member of Breast Surgeons Australia.

His interests include breast conserving treatments (was instrumental in introducing sentinel node techniques to Dubbo) and breast oncoplastics technique. Advanced laparoscopy surgery - especially laparoscopic bowel resections and anti-reflux surgery.

Dr Fisher grew up in a small village south of Tamworth, and this was a major incentive throughout his surgical training in Sydney to gain techniques and skills that would help deliver world class surgery to a regional environment, equivalent to those expected to be delivered in a Metropolitan Hospital.

Completing his undergraduate medical degree at the University of Sydney in 1993 he commenced his medical residency at Westmead Hospital in 1994, quickly completing all the requirements for Surgical Training. He was appointed to the Surgical Training Program in 1997 and obtained his Surgical Fellowship in 2000. Post fellowship he was appointed Clinical Surgical Superintendent, General Surgeon and Colorectal Fellow at Westmead.

In 2002 Dr Fisher was appointed to Dubbo Base Hospital and Dubbo Private Hospital. In 2005 he was also appointed to Mudgee District Hospital where he visits monthly.

Since commencing surgical practice in Dubbo, Dr Fisher has been heavily involved in teaching medical students from both the University of Sydney and University of Wollongong. The Surgical Training program has also been of specific interest to Dr Fisher and since 2002 the number of surgical trainees has increased from 2 to 5 Registrars training in Dubbo every 6 months. Dr Fisher is currently Dubbo's Surgical Supervisor of Training for the Royal Australasian College Of Surgeons, and his dedication to training was recognized in 2015 being voted by the NSW surgical trainees as the recipient for the "Excellence in Surgical Teaching" award for NSW. Dr Fisher, along with a number of his surgical trainees have published scientific research papers that have been accepted by world leading medical journals all based on the management of patients in Dubbo.

Dr Angelina Di Re

MBBS MS FRACS CSSANZ

Provider No: 450164PF

Angelina completed her undergraduate medical degree in 2011 and completed her internship and residency years at Blacktown-Mt Druitt and Bathurst Hospitals. Angelina commenced advanced training in General Surgery in 2014, based at the Westmead Hospital Network. This included 6 months working as a Surgical Registrar at Dubbo Base Hospital in 2018, which precipitated her desire to relocate to and work as a Surgeon in Dubbo.

Angelina has obtained a Masters of Surgery (Colorectal) from the University of Sydney in 2017. After obtaining her fellowship in General Surgery, Angelina completed a colorectal research fellowship year at Westmead Hospital in 2019, and still holds an honorary research appointment there. She subsequently was accepted onto the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand Training Program, and has spent two years training as a Colorectal Fellow at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital (Sydney) and Princess Alexandra Hospital (Brisbane).

As a Colorectal Surgeon, Angelina’s particular colorectal interests are colon and rectal cancers, inflammatory bowel disease, perianal fistulae, haemorrhoids, anal fissures, and pelvic floor disorders (including faecal incontinence and rectoceles). My general surgical interests are gastroscopy, colonoscopy, gallbladder pathology and hernias.

Dr Angelina Di Re has been granted visiting rights at Dubbo Private Hospital, Dubbo Base Hospital, Mudgee District Hospital.