Masada Private Hospital
Part of Ramsay Health Care

Masada Private Hospital specialist Catherine Sinclair

A/Prof Catherine Sinclair

BSc (Biomed), MBBS (Hons), FRACS, FACS

A/Prof Catherine Sinclair is a dual fellowship trained Otolaryngologist – head and neck surgeon, with subspecialty expertise in thyroid surgery and laryngology. She is widely recognised as Australia’s leading expert in the nonsurgical treatment of thyroid nodules and cysts, using thermal and chemical ablation. She introduced the technique of thyroid radiofrequency ablation to Australia in 2021 after having worked at Mount Sinai in New York for over a decade

A/Prof Sinclair is also a world leader in laryngeal nerve monitoring & voice preservation during thyroid surgery, having created a new method for intraoperative continuous laryngeal neuromonitoring during thyroid procedures. With regards to laryngology, A/Prof Sinclair works at the Melbourne Voice Analysis Centre and has an interest and surgical expertise in professional voice, neurolaryngology & the laryngeal adductor reflex.

A/Prof Sinclair has authored multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on thyroid related topics and laryngeal disease. She is the current Editor-in-Chief of VideoEndocrinology, one of the three official journals of the American Thyroid Association