Dr Antony Wettstein
Qualifications: MBBS (Hons), FRACP
Dr Antony Wettstein graduated his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery with honours at the University of New South Wales.
He completed his accredited training in Gastroenterology at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney and also worked as a Staff Specialist and Research Fellow at the Liestal University Hospital in Switzerland.
Dr Wettstein worked as a VMO at St Vincent’s Public Hospital before joining the St Vincent’s Clinic Diagnostic Endoscopy Centre as a partner. He currently works at the Diagnostic Endoscopy Centre and CDD.
Dr Wettstein has extensive experience in interventional endoscopy and surveillance colonoscopy. He is proficient in more complicated endoscopy techniques, performs ablative therapy for haemorrhoids and has a special interest in Radiofrequency Ablation for the treatment of advanced Barrett’s oesophagus.
Dr Wettstein has special research interests in endoscopic management of Barrett’s oesophagus, the treatment of digestive tract parasites and in the management of reflux disease and irritable bowel syndrome.
Dr Wettstein has published numerous peer review research papers, presented many abstracts and posters and gives frequents lectures to other doctors in Australia and overseas.
Dr Antony Wettstein’s Publications
Effect of immersion of biopsy forceps in formalin on tissue urease activity. Wettstein, A, Loy, C and Frommer, DJ Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology 1999, 14: 984–986. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-1746.1999.01988.x.
Thalidomide-effective therapy in chronic resistant inflammatory bowel disease (abstr). Macumber C (Bariol C), Meagher AP, Vickers CR, Byrnes DJ, Edwards PD, Hing M, Wettstein AR, Field A. Gastroenterology 1999;116(suppl);A767.
Multimodality Management of Tumours of the Aerodigestive Tract. Harvard Medical School Course November 3 – 4, 2000
Early studies on the safety and efficacy of thalidomide for symptomatic inflammatory bowel disease. Bariol C, Meagher AP, Vickers CR, Byrnes DJ, Edwards PD, Hing M, Wettstein AR, Field A. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2002 Feb;17(2):135-9.
Cyclospora infection masquerading as coeliac disease. Vidyut Pingé-Suttor, Chris Douglas, Antony Wettstein. Med J Aust 2004 Mar;180(6):295-6.
Durable alteration of the colonic microbiota by the administration of donor fecal flora. Martin J Grehan, Thomas Julius Borody, Sharyn M Leis, Jordana Campbell, Hazel Mitchell, Antony Wettstein. J Clin Gastroenterol 2010 Sep;44(8):551-61.
High Expression of Cathepsin E in Tissues but Not Blood of Patients with Barrett’s Esophagus and Adenocarcinoma. Oliver M Fisher, Angelique J Levert-Mignon, Sarah J Lord, Natalia K Botelho, Araluen K Freeman, Melissa L Thomas, Dan Falkenback, Antony Wettstein, David C Whiteman, Yuri V Bobryshev, Reginald V Lord. Ann Surg Oncol 2014 Oct 28. Epub 2014 Oct 28.