Dr Jason Abbott is Professor of Gynaecological Surgery at the UNSW and is the chair of the Expert Endometriosis Group for RANZCOG. He is an Associate Editor for ANZJOG and the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynaecology and has more than 140 publications including textbooks, book chapters and large-scale RCTs in gynaecological surgery. Prof Abbott has an active role in undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral supervision and is the former Chairman of the Practice Committee of the AAGL charged with delivering evidence-based guidelines for surgical gynaecology.