DR GUPTA CONSULTING ROOMS
– Holmesglen Private Hospital, 490 South Road, Moorabbin 3189
– Honeycomb Health, 44 Highbury Road, Burwood 3125
– 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.
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Dr Arun Gupta, MBBS, FRACP, MD is a specialist gastroenterologist serving Blackburn 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 has admitting rights and performs procedures at Cabrini Malvern, Holmesglen Private Hospital, Glen Iris Private, and at The Bays in Mornington.
With expertise 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.
Arun is passionate about quality in endoscopy and has supervised many registrars (trainee specialists) to perform endoscopy competently and safely. Please see here for more information about endoscopic procedures that Dr Gupta performs. He holds an honorary appointment as clinical research fellow at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.
A brief history of Blackburn!
A hotel was built on the site of the present Blackburn Hotel in Whitehorse Road in 1861, serving travellers to Healesville and the Gippsland goldfields around Woods Point. Another was opened near the creek in 1865. A post office was opened in 1876 and the Box Hill to Lilydale railway in 1882. The 1880s saw a spate of development, partly induced by the railway and strongly promoted by subdividers. The most active was the Freehold Investment and Banking Company which acquired thirty small farms and laid out a model township distinguishable by the triangular street design south of the railway station. The company is credited with building the public hall (1888), and damming the creek to form the Blackburn Lake (1889). The main industries were a brickworks, orchards and other farming.
Blackburn underwent steady growth between World Wars I and II. An open-air primary school for children in need of recuperation was opened in 1913 and another in Blackburn South in 1920. A cool store was opened in 1918 and the Blue Moon Fruit Co-operative built its fruit cannery in 1930. Fruit came from orchards in Doncaster, Donvale and Mitcham. By 1940 it was described by the directory as a residential fruit and vegetable growing district with cool stores and fruit-case factories. There was a private hospital, a baby health centre, soldiers’ memorial hall and a horticultural society.