Rate My Professor Cino Bendinelli

Cino Bendinelli is a Conjoint Associate Professor of Surgery in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle. He earned his medical degree with honours from the University of Pisa Medical School in Italy and completed general surgery training in Italy and Australia, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2003. He undertook postgraduate fellowships in endocrine surgery, including at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane from 2004 to 2005, and was awarded a PhD by the University of Newcastle in 2019 for his thesis on severe traumatic brain injury. Since 2009, he has served as Deputy Director of Trauma at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, where he practices as a general and endocrine surgeon. Appointed Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle in 2010 and elevated to Conjoint Associate Professor in 2018 or 2019, Bendinelli performs over 200 minimally invasive and traditional thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal procedures annually, including complex cases, alongside laparoscopic hernia repairs and trauma surgery.

Bendinelli's research interests encompass surgical outcomes in endocrine procedures, trauma management, traumatic brain injury, and emergency general surgery. He chairs the Thyroid Cancer Multidisciplinary Team for the Hunter New England health district and leads several multicentre randomized controlled trials, including as National Lead Investigator for the COOL trial on closed versus open abdomen after laparotomy for severe intra-abdominal sepsis, and Principal Investigator for trials on scalpel versus electrocautery skin incisions in thyroidectomy and high-dose preoperative cholecalciferol to prevent post-thyroidectomy hypoparathyroidism. His contributions include co-authorship of World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines on acute appendicitis (2025 edition), blunt and penetrating bowel injury, source control in emergency general surgery (2023), and minimally invasive surgery in emergencies (2022). With over 6,000 citations on ResearchGate, his publications influence international standards in trauma and endocrine surgery. Bendinelli is an invited speaker at local and international surgical conferences and tutors medical students and surgical trainees.