DR GUPTA CONSULTING ROOMS
– Honeycomb Health, 44 Highbury Road, Burwood 3125
– Holmesglen Private Hospital, 490 South Road, Moorabbin 3189
– The Bays Hospital, Vale Street, Mornington VIC 3931
To arrange a consultation, please contact our office on 03 9989 2777, email us at office@gast.au or click on our request an appointment link.
Dr Arun Gupta, MBBS, FRACP, MD is a specialist gastroenterologist serving Balwyn, Boroondara, and the surrounding areas of Melbourne. He studied medicine at the University of Melbourne (1998) and trained in Melbourne, Sydney, and in Oxford (UK). Arun consults in Burwood, at Holmesglen Private Hospital, and in Mornington. He holds an honorary appointment as clinical research fellow at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.
An expert in managing all aspects of gastroenterology, hepatology (liver problems) and pancreatico-biliary disease, Dr Gupta has a particular interest in the diagnosis and management of inflammatory bowel disease, coeliac disease, eosinophilic oesophagitis and dyspepsia, as well as functional gastrointestinal disorders. He takes a holistic approach and personalises his recommendations to each patient.
Please see here for more information about endoscopic procedures that Dr Gupta performs. Arun is passionate about quality in endoscopy and has supervised many registrars (trainee specialists) to perform endoscopy competently and safely. He performs procedures at Cabrini Malvern, Holmesglen Private Hospital, Glen Iris Private, and at The Bays in Mornington.
A brief history of Balwyn!
Balwyn was part of Henry Elgar’s Special Survey of eight square miles (1841), which was subdivided into small farms and grazing runs. One of the subdivisions was bought by a Scots editor and journalist, Andrew Murray (1813-80), in the late 1850s. He built a house which he named Balwyn, approximately on the site of the present Fintona Girls’ School in Balwyn Road. Murray planted a vineyard, and reputedly derived ‘Balwyn’ from the Gaelic ‘bal’ and the Saxon ‘wyn’. Other vineyards prospered until the 1890s, and grape vine branches formed part of Camberwell city’s crest. Balwyn was in the north of Camberwell city.
In 1868 the Balwyn primary school was opened in Balwyn Road, about 100 metres north of Whitehorse Road. It was moved to the present site, south of Whitehorse Road, in 1880, opposite Murray’s property (430 pupils, 2014). Balwyn’s first town centre was near the intersection of Balwyn and Whitehorse Roads, containing a few shops, a blacksmith and the athenaeum or mechanics’ institute. Anglican services began in 1868 and the St Barnabas church, Balwyn Road, was opened in 1872. It is on the Register of the National Estate.