Dr Simon Vun

Academic Status

College of Medicine and Public Health

place Flinders Medical Centre
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Dr Simon Vun, FRACS, is an Australian-trained and AHPRA board-certified Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon with over 13 years of practice experience.

Dr Vun’s formal training includes a Bachelor of Medical Science, a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery with First Class Honours, and a Master of Surgery. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) and a member of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Vascular Surgery (ANZSVS) and Australasian Vascular Audit (AVA).

Dr Vun is an instructor in the Australia and NZ Surgical Skills Education and Training (ASSET) program for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He is also a faculty member of the Western Australia Vascular Education (WAVE) program and the Adelaide Vascular Trial (AVT) program for Australian and international vascular surgeons-in-training. He is also a clinical senior lecturer at Flinders University.

Dr Vun has a special interest in arterial reconstruction, renal access, spine access and venous intervention and supports SA’s busiest TAVI aortic valve program at Flinders and Ashford Hospitals.

Qualifications
  • 2009 Bachelor of Medical Science
  • 2010 Bachelor of Medicine, and Bachelor of Surgery (First Class Honours)
  • 2020 Master of Surgery
  • 2021 Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - Vascular Surgery
Honours, awards and grants
  • 2010 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, University Prize in Surgery
  • 2009 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Peter Hewitt Memorial Prize in Surgery
  • 2009 Tasmanian Overseas Scholarship to Johannesburg General Hospital, South Africa for Trauma Surgery
  • 2009 Dean's Honor Roll of Excellence
Key responsibilities

Lecturer in Surgery - Flinders University

Teaching interests
Vascular Surgery
Clinical Skills
Further information
Publications:
Vun S, Walker SR. Endovascular repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms in a rural center is both feasible and associated with reduced blood product requirements. Vascular 2009;17(6):303-8.