Dr Henrik Wangel,
Specialist Anaesthetist
MBBS · FANZCA · DA (UK)
AHPRA · MED0000957723
Dr Wangel provides anaesthesia for Dr Hirpara's operating lists at CQ Hand + Upper Limb, with more than twenty years as a consultant anaesthetist in Central Queensland.
Dr Henrik Wangel is a specialist anaesthetist who provides anaesthesia for Dr Hirpara's upper limb operating lists at CQ Hand + Upper Limb. A Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FANZCA), he has practised as a consultant anaesthetist in Central Queensland since 2004.
He trained in South Australia and England, completing the Diploma of Anaesthetics (UK) during eighteen months as an anaesthetic SHO in Crewe, and spent his provisional fellowship year between Flinders Medical Centre and Toronto General Hospital in Canada, working in complex cardiothoracic anaesthesia and echocardiography. His earlier training included four months of intensive care at the Royal Adelaide Hospital with fixed- and rotary-wing aeromedical retrieval, and he has since completed the CareFlight retrieval course — including helicopter underwater escape training — and FAST ultrasound training.
His lists in Mackay and Rockhampton span bariatric, plastic, orthopaedic and maxillofacial surgery alongside a substantial obstetric and paediatric workload, and he provides paediatric anaesthesia at North Lakes Hospital. That breadth across cardiac, paediatric and retrieval anaesthesia means he is well placed to care for patients with medical complexity coming to upper limb surgery. Dr Wangel has provided anaesthesia for Dr Hirpara's lists at the Mater Private Hospital Rockhampton since October 2022.
Away from the hospital he fishes, dives and flies light aircraft — and, given the chance, swims through the ice in Finland after a decent sauna.
From Adelaide,
to Toronto,
to Rockhampton
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Internship and early hospital years
Medicine (MBBS) at the University of Adelaide, then internship at Flinders Medical Centre and eighteen months as an anaesthetic SHO at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, England, where he completed the Diploma of Anaesthetics (UK), followed by resident rotations through medicine, emergency, trauma and psychiatry at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
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ANZCA training and intensive care
Four years as a registrar on the South Australian Anaesthetic Training Scheme: twenty months rotating through anaesthetic subspecialties at Flinders Medical Centre, general surgical anaesthesia at Alice Springs Base Hospital, and four months of intensive care at the Royal Adelaide Hospital — South Australia's major trauma centre — with fixed- and rotary-wing aeromedical retrieval.
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Provisional fellowship
Five months of the provisional fellowship year at Flinders Medical Centre, a 400-bed tertiary referral centre, in cardiac, neurosurgical, thoracic and general surgical anaesthesia. Passed the ANZCA Part I (2000) and Part II (2002) examinations.
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Cardiac anaesthesia fellowship
Eight months of the provisional fellowship year at Toronto General Hospital, Canada, a quaternary referral centre specialising in complex cardiothoracic anaesthesia, including a month of echocardiography. Admitted as a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in 2003.
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Consultant anaesthetist
Locum VMO posts at John Hunter, Lismore Base and Cairns Base hospitals, then consultant anaesthetist in private practice in Mackay from 2004 — Mater Hospital Mackay, Pioneer Valley Private Hospital and Mackay Day Surgery — alongside sessions at Mackay Base Hospital, where he was a staff specialist from 2020 to 2021.
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Anaesthetic VMO, and anaesthesia for Dr Hirpara's lists
Anaesthetic VMO at the Mater hospitals in Mackay and Rockhampton across bariatric, plastic, orthopaedic and maxillofacial lists, with paediatric anaesthesia at North Lakes Hospital. Provides anaesthesia for Dr Hirpara's upper-limb operating lists at the Mater Private Hospital Rockhampton.